Learning the Language of Internet Marketing & Web Design
I have never had to do it before, personally, but I have heard that the best way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in it. You have to go so far as to live and interact with the people who speak their language natively.
The same goes for Internet Marketing. And within that, web design, with all its technical “language”.
Two years ago, I was like an American visiting, say, China with not a lick of knowledge of the language. Can you imagine on your first day, you have to find a bathroom fast and you frantically look for someone – ANYone – who is willing to listen to you in the first place and secondly take the time to show you the way.
Internet Marketing is like that. There are lots of courses out there – great ones. But until you immerse yourself in the “land of Internet Marketing” and learn the language and web design dialect, you could be as frustrated as a person with a full bladder in the middle of Chinatown!
Take PHP, for instance. I have no idea how to get around in it. Now, HTML I managed to figure out OK. But PHP is like Russian, to me. But I know that if I want to navigate the “land of Internet Marketing” I need to at least master the basics.
It really is my responsibility to learn my craft, to at least manage a bit of it so I can communicate to someone who does know how to do it, just what it is that I want.
Someday, I will outsource the technical stuff. But until I can, I am determined to learn the language of web design and Internet Marketing, well, at least just enough to get to the bathroom 
(thanks to Mark W. for the inpiration of this message!)
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