The Real Secret To Quickly Achieve Essential Skills In Marketing

Everyone wants to know how to achieve essential skills in marketing, well, before I reveal the secret to achieving essential skills let me ask you this - what is the secret to the most successful people in the world?

Chances are you will say they have determination, they do what they do with enthusiasm because they believe in themselves, they have the most enviable attitude, they have an amazing drive, they have written goals and core desires. They have clarity. etc. I'm afraid I'll have to slightly disagree with you here because what the anwers above are characteristics (not essential skills) of highly successful people. The winners! The champions! These characteristics are the fuel for success. The secret to achieving what you want to do is in acquiring the necessary and essential skills needed in that area. Did you get that? The secret to the most successful people in the world is the skills set they possess or develop in their area of interest.

Jim Rohn in his audio album "Building Your Network Marketing Business" describes and teaches the process of how he acquired the essential skills of building a Network Marketing Business. The most important thing to note is, these essential skills can be learned. However, it is not necessary to start any endeavor with the essential skills required. Why, because developing and improving skills is part of the success journey in that endeavor! When you start any career you need to acquire the necessary essential skills (not just any skill) to be the best at what you do. Almost any career needs marketing skills. Whether is Network Marketing, Salesmanship, Webdesign, Parenting, Job, Music, etc. there is marketing involved.

I hope by now you can make the distinction between characteristics and skills set of the success minded people. Jack Zufelt explains beautifully how to acquire the characteristics of an achiever in his book The DNA of Success. He says "Know What You Want"¦ To Get What You Want". This coins our title "The Real Secret To Quickly Achieve Essential Skills In Marketing" beautifully in that once you know what you want, clarity, you will get what you want. And in that process of getting what you want there is improving skills or acquiring the essential skills. As much as the characteristics described above are necessary in being successful, essential skills take precedence! Do you think a successful musician can automatically make a successful footballer? The musician has to develop the essential skills first!

So what is the secret to quickly achieve essential skills in marketing? Take responsibility for your skills set! If you take charge of the skills set needed to succeed in any marketing endeavor you will acquire the essential skills needed. With the essential skills in your power, success is eminent. "Know What You Want"¦ To Get What You Want" - Jack Zufelt. There is no such thing as born successful.

Identify critical areas of success in your career that will affect your success. If you're in Network Marketing and you can't sell any product look at your communications skills. If you don't seem to have any friends work on your teamwork skills, maybe, or your other personal skills. If you have an internet business and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere work on developing skills don't dismiss it and think internet marketing is not working! Get programs or books that will help you acquire the essential skills. Identify your area of interest and learn from the experts in that area. As Tim Sales puts it, don't listen to people who have failed and act as proof that what they were doing is not working. No! It is not that it is not working! They lacked the essential skills and quit on themselves. They also want you to quit"¦ People fail at everything! Pick any endeavor where there are no people who have not failed at it. We as people, we fail at anything unless we don't quit on ourselves and/or develop the necessary essential skills!

If you want to start something or have no idea where or what to start I suggest get a book or look around for something that can give you ideas. There is a free audio course by Bill Harris called "The Masters of the Secret" it will shed some light. Bill Harris says increase your value to the world"¦There is another famous book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, it is also an excellent starting point. Start somewhere and remember that success is not a walk in the park. Listen to all successful people (business people, medalists, professional footballers, millionaires, musicians, parents with well behaved kids, etc) none of them will say success is a walk in the park. I remember I once read an article by Randy Gage talking about a marathon runner. He said no matter how motivated the runner maybe, there are times they feel lazy to wake up early in the morning for training"¦yet when they lift that trophy up there we tend to think it was all easy for them"¦