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Digital marketing skills can be separated into two categories: hard skills and soft skills.
Hard skills are basically learned abilities that develop through education, practice and experience, while soft skills are more about character traits and interpersonal skills.
Being a good digital marketer requires having both sets of marketing skills.
People often focus on improving hard skills like coding, SEO, or paid advertising while ignoring soft skills. But the truth is that both types are equally important.
In this digital marketing tutorial, we share 5 hard skills and 6 soft skills that are the most important whether you’re a digital marketing manager or a complete beginner to online marketing.
Let’s get started with the hard skills. Those are:
► Copywriting skills
► SEO
► Data analysis and interpretation
► User experience
► Expertise with Google Sheets
Watch the video to learn more about why these are important and how to get better at them.
Next are the soft skills that include:
► Communication
► Problem solving
► Creativity
► Teachability
► Self-motivation
► Dependability
Watch the video to learn why having soft skills like these are absolutely critical to your career in marketing.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:38 Copywriting
2:15 SEO
2:51 Data analysis and interpretation
3:45 User experience
4:39 Expertise with Google Sheets
5:18 Communication
6:12 Problem solving
7:26 Creativity
8:37 Teachability
9:21 Self-motivation
10:10 Dependability