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Old 09-28-2007, 11:46 PM   #2
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Depends on what your interests are. Learning css, html, and how to generate your own traffic are good skills to learn. Learn to sell the niche(s) you are most interested in. Learning to sell period is an asset. Selling, in general, does not come easy to a lot of people.

Put it to you this way, the more skills you can develop on your own, the less money you will be spending to outsource work.

Over time, you will figure out where to best allocate your skills. Some people know how to design, but they still outsource design jobs because they can spend time in another area to improve their business. However, they still have the skill as a back-up.

If you are interested in programming, learn to develop the skill.

If you are interested in blogging, learn how the blog software works and how to write to sell a niche.

If you are interested in building galleries and freesites, learn how to use an html editor and/or css, and an image program such as Photoshop.

If you are interested in running a TGP, learn how the different scripts work, how to trade traffic, and how to create a site built to sell.

So it really depends on what interests you. Everyone enters the business with different skill sets and on different levels. Some people might be awesome programmers, but they can't use a program like Photoshop. Other people might be able to write html and do wonderful things with CSS, but writing a decent blog post is difficult for them.
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