I’ve been reading and enjoying Taylor Pearson’s book, The End Of Jobs (amazon.com).
Taylor’s a fairly well-known online entrepreneur 😎 and shares in the book how it all began for him:
Apprenticing was how I got started in entrepreneurship. I taught myself a bit of Search Engine Optimization using Moz’s Beginner’s Guide to SEO, a free guide online. I paid $20 to get a hosting account from GoDaddy.com and built a website outside my job at the time, as an English teacher. I cold-emailed a handful of marketing agencies and used those sites as proof of my skills. That turned into a part-time internship, and eventually a full-time job where I learned a lot about internet marketing, project management, and technology.
That’s actually something I wish I’d done when I quit my day job back in 2010: apprenticed for an online business and learned the ropes through them – while getting paid – instead of trying to figure it all out for myself 🙈
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