Monkey See, Monkey Do: How Do You Learn?

As human beings we are all very diverse. And it’s the same in the way we learn things. Online mar­ket­ing is of course no dif­fer­ent and it’s in your best inter­est to fig­ure out how you learn best. There is a lot of infor­ma­tion on the world wide web. And it’s up to you to fig­ure out what works best for you and stick with it.

As I said we are all a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. And while I may learn a lot more from read­ing, you may learn bet­ter from watch­ing. The point is, find your strength in how you learn and use that for­mat to learn what you need to be suc­cess­ful. Use your strengths to your advan­tage. When you get con­tent from online sources about online mar­ket­ing and other lessons, you may want to con­sider how you would learn best.

Lis­ten­ing
Pod­casts, inter­views, books on audio, tele­sem­i­nars. These for­mats have been around for a long time. It’s more inter­ac­tive then read­ing (espe­cially if your able to attend the sem­i­nar). Some­times hear­ing some­one tell you how to do things helps. Some peo­ple just soak it in bet­ter this way.

It’s also very con­ve­nient. Hav­ing some­thing on audio is great for trav­el­ing or just relax­ing. Just stick the audio file on your mp3 player or play it on your com­puter. Sit back and relax and lis­ten to some great con­tent. It makes your con­tent mobile. While you can read on the go, lis­ten­ing on the go is a bit more flex­i­ble. You can still drive or eat or what­ever while your lis­ten­ing. I wouldn’t sug­gest try­ing to drive while you read.

Read­ing
By far still my most favorite way to learn. I’ve read a lot most of my life and love to read. So I can go through stuff pretty quick. But read­ing isn’t for every­one. Less peo­ple read nowa­days then they used to. But with audio and video on the rise you can still get a lot of information.

Hav­ing your infor­ma­tion in front of you is handy when you need to refresh your­self on some­thing. Read­ing can be portable to a degree. Books and ebooks can go with you wher­ever you go (as long as you have a lap­top or some­thing similar).

Now ebook read­ers are really start­ing to get pop­u­lar as well. Prod­ucts such as the Ama­zon Kin­dle and the new Barnes and Noble Nook are just two of the big ones. There are more com­ing out everyday.

Read­ing is also a great way to relax and soak things in. It’s a great way to wind down and learn at the same time at the end of the day. I tend to retain a lot when I read, which is why it’s a good way for me to learn per­son­ally. But not every­one likes to read either.

Watch­ing
Video is huge right now. This is a big one and is a great tool to use in your mar­ket­ing efforts. Videos are great for learn­ing as you actu­ally see how things are done. You get see them in action. If you are watch­ing a video with a tuto­r­ial on Twit­ter Lists, you will see what but­tons to push, where to go, how to do it, and so on. Details are impor­tant here.

Not only that but it makes things much more per­sonal. It can cre­ate trust and cred­i­bil­ity in a quick man­ner. Body lan­guage can tell a lot about some­one and it’s hard to hide in a video. If your watch­ing a video with some­one that is con­fi­dent and trust­ing, it will come through in their body lan­guage. Which you will pick up whether you real­ize it or not.

Video is a great way to learn and is grow­ing more pop­u­lar by the day. A lot of peo­ple are includ­ing video in their web­sites and prod­ucts and is really an excel­lent way to learn. It’s almost like hav­ing some­one there to show you how things are done.

Doing
This by far is prob­a­bly the best way to learn. While the other ways of learn­ing are great for gath­er­ing and absorb­ing infor­ma­tion, actu­ally doing and tak­ing action is where you will learn the most. Expe­ri­ence will teach you more than any tele­sem­i­nar, book, or video will ever teach you.

Go out there and make mis­takes, learn from that and imple­ment it. This is why you always hear “take action” from every guru and no name in the mar­ket­ing world. Because it’s true. You will learn more from doing then just read­ing, lis­ten­ing, or watching.

So those are the ways we learn in the wide world of online mar­ket­ing. There is a lot of infor­ma­tion and, when you can, pick what suits your skills the best. If you learn bet­ter from watch­ing videos then try to get your infor­ma­tion from videos. The point is to work off of your strengths and learn effi­ciently. Then get out there and imple­ment that knowl­edge, it’s pow­er­less otherwise.

~Chris

What ways to you learn more effi­ciently? I tend to retain a lot from read­ing then other for­mats, how about you?

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