Does learning marketing at home make you knowledgeable? The answer depends on you. If you learn by reading a marketing theory only without practice, it is useless. Conversely, if you put into practice after getting knowledge, it is very helpful for you.
I found several marketing practitioners. They have no background in marketing; I mean they took different major in their college like IT, electrical engineer, etc. instead of marketing. As time goes by, I met and found them as marketing practitioners and some of them are public speakers in marketing seminar.
When I talked with some of them, I got understand that they update their marketing knowledge through self-study via online and marketing books, attend online training as we say it webinar. They implement the theory by marketing some products. Sometime they found the theory does not work, so they modify their strategy until finding a best practice. Now, they become a marketing trainer and write several marketing books.
Ways to learn marketing at home
This article is dedicated for college students who have already decided marketing as a career; people who want to start small business and learn how to market your product, and beginner marketer.
There are several ways you can do to learn marketing at home. I will share these for you based on my experience.
- Read several marketing blog (like this blog), marketing magazines, and books to gain fundamental and marketing concept.
- If you have some marketing knowledge, find a mentor. You must find a mentor who has real practitioner and has real business, so he can train you both fundamental marketing concept and marketing tactic.
- After finding a good mentor, you must build your business. It is OK to start from small. This is a correct medium to test the marketing knowledge whether it works in the real life or not.
- Allocate your time to get more knowledge and to implement the theory. For example: spend 70% of the time to practice and 30% of the time to get more marketing knowledge by reading marketing blog and discuss the result of your marketing strategy with your mentor, etc.
- Write and make a detail note thing that you perform, see the result.
- Write and make documentation the feedback, discuss with your mentor about the result. For example: why it doesn't work, how to improve the strategy, how to increase the result, and so on. Then make a detail note about this.
-Try to implement the modification approach based on things that you have already got from your mentor or knowledge that is gained from book/blog/magazine/newspaper.
Practice and implement them continually while you get the latest information.
Another approach to learn marketing at home by self-study in formal education
If you want study marketing at home but you want to get a formal education, you can register some marketing degree online . You can pick one of them that is suitable for you.
By performing distance learning at online university and pick a major in marketing, you will graduate in marketing subject.
I hope this can answer the question how to learn marketing online.
Study marketing online
For Example:
And many more. So, I hope this information can answer your question about how to learn marketing on the internet.
I recap above information. You can learn a lot of marketing knowledge at home. There are enormous sources like I mention above. The success key in learn marketing is: study it continually and practice and implement it persistently.
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