Topic: Importance of understanding the business of every craft. (Read 566 times)

Success do not just easily come to those who have talents and skills, but those who embrace their talents and skills with high passion and understanding, those are the ones who are most likely to achieve success in the end.

Now when it comes to marketing, those who have excellent skills and with unlimited patience to dwell with the different people in the market, those are the ones who actually create an edge over other competitors in the market. While those who rely solely on their skills without positive attitudes and other plus factor, those are the ones who will leave the market easily and won't leave a good impact.

Team is very important for every business because team plays important role in many things. Do not hire greedy people and always hire the people who are professionals and who have the plan for future and who are doing research for the future.  Understanding of business is first step of getting success. Many people are working on the business but they have no degree's but they have practical knowledge and they wasted their 4 years on research and now they are successful people. Business always look after whole family but by job you can run your kitchen only .

the need for patience in every effort we make, that is the main key that we need to know, to advance the business the need to employ people who are skilled in their fields is something that must be done, by understanding the business that you are establishing is something that you must understand from the start because it will affect the direction in the future.

Hiring experts in the field is certainly the right choice to be able to introduce the products we have to many people and attract their attention to find out more details about the products we have and if you choose to try it yourself and are confident in your abilities, of course it will benefit you because you don't have to hire other people in the field.
When you do something seriously, the efforts you make will certainly get good results too, but in this case we must also be patient in the process that we must go through to be able to achieve the goals we want.

The talent will be overshadowed by marketing if people know how to sell better. Your product could be ten times better product than your competition, but if your competition has better marketing then you are not going to achieve anything. I believe the best way to make money in business is to learn marketing, that is the most important talent anyone can have and if you are terrible at marketing then there is nothing you can do to make a change on this.

I believe the worst thing about this would be just making sure we deal with something that goes beyond what we have. So keep in mind what marketing means, then if you do that well enough, you can keep working on your product or your skill or whatever you are selling. Because after marketing is done, you still can't provide a shitty service, you need to be still good and this is where you need to shine, you did the marketing and got the people, now keep them coming back for a second time if you want money.

I have written many times that knowledge is very important for a business and I agree with what you said. Your mentioning another important thing, passion, reminded me that it is among the most important things for a business. It is very difficult to be successful in a job you do not love. Those who are passionate about their job strive to improve and make their jobs the best, and these efforts generally yield positive results.

It is important for a business to make money, and loving what you do to earn this money is more important than many things. If a person who loves their job has knowledge and uses this knowledge to improve and make their job better, they will be successful.

Its crucial. You cannot run a successful business without knowledge and passion; knowledge is power and an edge in business, The competition will take you out if you do not know how your business runs, take the case of restaurant business. You need to know what the market needs and how to place your business and most importantly, you need to have good taste buds and cooking skills You should not delegate your product to your worker; you should be part of the development of what you will serve to the customers and that's where knowledge comes in.

One of the skills that must be possessed is marketing skills, many people or companies employ other people who are indeed experts in marketing whose goal is to reach many people and make them interested in the products being marketed. With us who have certain skills it is not enough, although maybe we can hire or employ people who are also experts in marketing but at least we ourselves must dare to try it first.

previously I myself was not confident when interacting directly with new people, but because the job I had ever gotten led me to have to interact directly with customers, I had no choice but to be able to have marketing skills and over time I managed to master this little by little. This proves that effort will not betray the results.

The most important thing in any business you do is to have more skills and learn how to succeed in the business when you learn how to succeed in your business even those who are doing the same business with you as your competitors will never be ahead of you, business is not something that you will just think that God will bring customers or people who will make your business grow, you have to stand and learn more skills about what you do and when you have more skills on your business nothing will stop the business from moving to the next level.

Following the tread information is another best option for a business, if you are always using new patterns and strategies in your business there is nothing to stop your business, business is a plan work that you have to know how to succeed in, having a good business and you don't have many skills about it also makes a business end in a short period.

In today era, wherever you are and want to earn money, you really have to have some skill and experience that you can earn money by watch someone.Because everyone dream is to become rich but for that, you have to work hard and earn money, but for that too if you have experience of something, then only you can fulfill your dream in it, otherwise not. If you go to work in a foreign country, no one will hire you without skill.

 If you don't understand it then it's foolishness that you are taking information about something and not understanding it then it will be your loss. In today's age knowledge is enough but very few people follow it. If you love business, that's great but understand that knowledge doesn't end  if you seek it out and see it, but none of us will act on it.

Skill can be learned all throughout your exposure in that kind of field,  but having skill without understanding on the nature of your own craft, why you have been working up with your own skill, that will remain meaningless in your own eyes and on the eyes of others. It's more important that you should know and understand your own craft, be able to come up with your own originality as that will identify yourself and stand out from the rest.

Base on business knowledge. The first thing you need to learn is how you can succeed in the business even though you have many Competitors in the business. That will make you to get more revenue or sells more than them, which is the reason why I’m some business you will see someone that start and have the knowledge of marketing his business will be growing more than the other that don’t have the knowledge to market there businesses in different ways.

And the best way to be ahead of your rivals in business, is by following the tread information, that will alert you on the new step to take to make more people interested in your business, and you will be able to have more patronage and even more revenue than others.

That's right,a friend of mine would always say if you really want to get full knowledge about a particular thing, you mingle with great minds and don't just limits yourself that you know it all whereas there are multiples of knowledge that are in store for you to unveil and when you do so you'll surely skyrocket among your competitors in that business you have venture into. Another thing is making a difference, Create your own patterns, make it special and mind you it's creativity that enables one to stand out among the same varieties.

The more you know the better for you... It is wise to learn as much as possible about all aspects. But you also need to have someone to learn all that from, that's the tricky part. Not everyone is in a position that allows them to learn as much as possible, not everyone is aware of everything they need to know, so having someone with a lot of experience to learn from is very important, and makes learning a lot easier.

But not everyone is capable of such a thing, and not everyone has the desire for it... that's why success is for those who have the desire and will, and it will be much easier to achieve this if there is someone to guide them and teach them.

Those who create content on social media will indeed have a time when they do not have ideas that can be used for their content and looking for other people who want to sell their content is certainly a shortcut for them but this is not easy to get because it is not certain that other people's content is suitable for what we have, yes this is indeed not a job that can last long so we also have to have other types of jobs that we can do and make it a source of additional income.

Being able to do a craft that can indeed provide income would certainly be very good and even better if the craft that we master is really needed right now then it would certainly be very useful for them, when we are in the process then patience is needed to be able to achieve the goals we want and maybe only some people can survive until they reach success and for those who fail to survive of course they have to think of other ideas that they can do to be able to provide them with income.

To escape what is on the ground you have to look for a way of thinking out of the box to make use of the ideas coming out of the box and it must not just be a lame idea that will not yield anything, then it will not be okay even to make use of those ideas because anything, and going into something that has potential is very much okay. After all, we can not waste our time because time is something that is even very precious.

Some people are scared of starting anything even with their ideas some platforms can key into your idea and the highest that can happen is for them to take some percentage of ownership since they are investing in those ideas, there are relevant ways to make use of this ideas, and I feel like it was developed just to support other peoples idea even when then don't have money actually to implement their idea.

But this work mostly applies to social media people who work on it daily.  For those who don't have any content on any given day and find people who can provide them content. Today's youth are doing this and people like them but unfortunately it is not a good job.

The important thing you have done now is what is needed for the job today. But there are some people who have nothing and have reached this point. According to me, this work should require more hard work and patience But some people learn by watching, due to which they become proficient in it.  But they do not become fully experienced, for which they have to suffer further.

Working YEARS on something without making much money, and just learning isn't something people are willing to do in most cases. I am not talking about just days or weeks or even months, I am talking about YEARS of working on it until you are good enough to make money. A painter doesn't start selling thousands of dollars worth of paints on their first month, it takes years for them to get that good, and even in most cases they don't even have this type of income after a decade.

So, you should realize sometimes things aren't always this easy and we shouldn't really be worried about it, we need to focus on how we could get greater results with time and when you get these type of results then you are going to be certain you are not really into it after a while.

Most people give up and not go with it because they get bored, life isn't easy, we all have troubles, nobody lives a life of trouble-free days, and because of this working on something else on top of your regular job isn't easy. I try to learn something for example, and in the past six months, I probably put in only 100 hours into it, which is very little, but that's all I had, and I can't find the time, I haven't given up, but I understand the ones who do.

Yea, what made some people to fall out of business or off their career is because they failed after trying out their first few steps and see how uneasy it is. There's the story of some scientists I heard about who tried something more their four times and it didn't work but was the fifth time that it worked. Some persons can not be that patient.

Content creation is a saturated market, for those who lack the ability to bring out ideas to grow and engage their viewers this market is not for them. This is the basis of understand the business of the craft. It is important no doubt as is learning the skills need to make the craft.

Also note that major big creators out there have good financial backup, their parents are rich and that money cushion is there to keep them safe in case this type of craft does not yield or need to time grow.

But talking in general, if your skills are good you have to learn to market them, this can be learnt by observing already established people in your field and having an inherent capacity to learn new things everyday.

It's because Ronaldo's story better than Messi.

We're all know Messi is a gifted talent, he was lucky to met Pep who want to give treatment for him, and another his luckiness FIFA is always favoring him.

While Ronaldo, he born from poor family, he was trying hard to become better even though he's not a gifted talent, always become the second best player because FIFA is favoring Messi etc.

People prefer with Ronaldo since people don't like unfairness.

It is very important to think positively for the future, by understanding the potential of  business you are running it is better, the need for perseverance in developing it and full of self-confidence, that is what needs to be applied and always continue to learn to cover the possible gaps in the weaknesses of the business you are doing.

Very important, haven't you heard of the saying "Talent isn't enough". Messi is more talented than Ronaldo but who's richer? Who understand the business behind their talents better.

 Things might be different in the future but right now it is showing that Ronaldo understood the business part of football or he hired those that understood what's needed to be done and he's making a fortune.

Having that talent or skills isn't just enough, how good are you at marketing yourself that's what matters because, it's the marketing that matters and not what you're really selling.

There's a reason coca cola and other big brands still market their products irrespective of how popular they already are.

Good marketing takes your product to where you couldn't have imagined that you'll be able to get to so after getting that skill or discovering your talents, the next thing to do is to understand the business associated with that hustle.

That's absolutely true. You may not be the best into the craft that you are right now but if you know how to strategize well and understands how business works there and you're able to incentivize it properly, you're better than the best. There's a big difference why someone is staying on specific niche even if they don't like it, they just like it on the process because it's profitable and they're able to monetize it based on how they've studied it carefully. Gaining knowledge on a specific business and having yourself prepared for strategizing how you can do it in the long run is a big plan that many doesn't do. Like you've mentioned, some are good in video editing and programming but that's it, they don't expound the capabilities that they do and don't explore more of it. But once a person who have gained an idea on how it can be expanded and make more money from it, he's better than those experts because he knows where money is flowing and how to catch them.

This is a very good angle to this discussion. It's almost like we're talking about two major instances of iether focusing more on your skillset or combining both getting the prerequisite skillset and understanding how best to use it to your advantage.

Somehow, people that are just focused on getting only the skills might gain good expertise in what they do and outperform others but understanding how to earn more from your skill could even make you an employer of another that's of the same skills you have.

you're 100% correct. Being just skilled is not enough. You have to gain the skills and also understand the marketability in it. For extablished firms, it's quite easy to employ different staffs that are in charge of marketing, research and a lot of other roles but outside of that, if you're an independent person, you have to know how to do a lot of things all by yourself and still remain productive.

It should be like that, don't let those who are still young always be spectators of the progress of the development of internet technology today. But, that's true and if I notice in my place, especially the younger generation, they are starting to position themselves in taking some of the opportunities that exist and can be used as side income/passive income for them.

A small example is like the item you mentioned above, they start using Facebook then create their own Fanpage with various titles and concepts, whether it's just for pictures using AI with unique concepts or for their own real content. After all the requirements are sufficient, they submit it and the results if pursued consistently are quite good per month, especially if one of their posts goes viral, it will really boost their income.

I do agree that there is a specific skill to learn to sell our product and service, but all the same, the business side will matter. A very good example is the world of content creation, several content creators with fewer followers or views across different content can make more by diversifying streams through brand deals, paid subscriptions, or even ad revenue across multiple platforms. In fact, YouTube remains the most lucrative platform for creators, beating TikTok and Facebook in earnings for 2024. It is not all about business, either. Some creators struggle with algorithm changes or even with reach, despite understanding the business part of it. While good understanding of how to make money from one's skill is extremely important, adaptability and a strong personal brand are just as important in the long run.

When you start with anything, you should always have the passion to do it. Also, need to be open about unexpected circumstances and so you need to plan about contingencies that you need to do in case of failure.
And everyday you are in your business, is also the time to learn more of your business. As you gain insights, you will come to the point that you will also gain some tricks that you can use in improving your managing skills.

That's why we need to love what we do, what ever anyone pick as a career or what ever someone has as a talent, it should be something that you are proud of and something you can do proudly. Some persons decides to go into a career because they see how profitable it is for some other people that are into it and not because they really love that career and after they have ventured into, just some little challenges and problems can bring them down.
 
For example, I know so many people that were coming up as an artist in my country but failed, some started business and failed, some started social media influencing and failed, etc.

Skill is not everything, you must love your skill, do it with passion, learn how to improve and become better and also teach yourself to be patient.

Telegram and Discord would be great for these, when you are learning, those type of chat channels will allow you to ask questions to people who already know how to do these things, and they will show you how to market it as well. I can do a bit of design these days, not making any money from it because I am not learning as a business but for hobby, one day I want to be able to make my own game, not going to be employed by anyone, but I know where these people look for jobs.

Most of them do not look for jobs in upwork or fiverr, because those places are too crowded as it is, and getting a job there would be hard and usually they do not get enough to cover their bills let alone anything else. They have their own forums and places they go to, and reddit isn't bad neither.

Depends on what your goal is when you are dealing with a  craft. For example, if you want to shoot a movie, your aim could be making money, or your aim could be adding something to cinema, or your hope would be both, doesn't matter. Sometimes you aim to make as much money as you possibly could, which is normal because we are in a very economy oriented world, but sometimes you end up with wanting to just do something because you want to do that thing.

I like coding games at times for example, obviously very simple click here and there stuff, nothing major, but I do it, and I could never make money from it because I do not have any time at all to learn how to do it properly. But, I still do small stuff sometimes when I have a little bit of time on rare occasions and share with other devs and get support and I love it. Was this business part of it? Of course not, this was just pure fun and yet I still did it and this is all I care about, nothing more.

True, prioritize learning when you're starting our and genuinely help people solve problems with your skill. Indeed, having a skill is not all, it's a start, but you need to know how to market those skills and get clients, and not just any clients, but clients that pay you well for your time and value.

One of those ways is to  join a community while learning, and interact in those communities. You can join job boards like Upwork, join professional platforms like LinkedIn, where people showcase their skills and get clients.

Try connecting and cold DM  people on those platforms, connect professionally and learn to support people too, because in supporting people's journey, they know you, and they also recommend you, that's how referrals come.

And be visible, and show up with solutions to peoples problems, any platform you choose, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, be visible, don't be a post and ghost somebody, always show up. Be active, be around, let people see you, let your profile be popping.

Learn copywriting, learn how to use words to market your skills, learn basic marketing and positioning skills, position yourself properly. Always upskill to be one step ahead of others that are in your field.

And don't be ashamed to market yourself, some people are ashamed, go out there and tell people what you do. When you want to introduce yourself, when you say your name, you say your skills too.

Let it keep occurring to people that, you are, for example, XYZ, a software developer, before you start saying anything. Always put yourself out there. A good skill in a box is of no use to the person that learned the skill and somebody that needs the service.
Go out there and help solve someone's problems with your skills.

Absolutely well said, I believe the summary of your whole explanation can be described in a single word "Genius". being exceptionally excellent in what you do, is the Level of communication you pass across beyound the vocal words. Sometimes people don't get what they desire due to lack of mental skill upgrade or being dominant in knowledge. Sometimes it is good we check our actions or activities and what makes us to be stagnant or dumant. And then we Become creative, innovative and add quality instead of quantity.

Although people are of thesame type according to how they are created by God. our grace differs. There are some people that has that grace in them which whatever they do usually prospers even without forcing it, it's just like an inborn or inbuilt kind of thing which doesn't need them to study but when they do it, it is always effortless, seamlessly and tiredlesly. Just like some people in this forum started together but the level of quality post they have made here has made them surge higher than their fellow that registered thesame time because of the speed of learning and contribution to the forum compeard to their fellow. So I believe in the notion that "grace" is one factor that should be considered as a propelling force of most success. Just like Satoshi Nakamoto created bitcoin which not everyone could do it no matter how long they try to study it till they are no more.

You are right. It is about who can sell more. It doesn’t matter if you have the best one in terms of quality but if you are not targeting the right market then you might just never sell your product. Price can also be a factor in what you can sell. This is why I emphasize the need to know your market and who are you making your product for. Know the people and know why should they want to buy your products.
Of course, it is the most important. Business is not an easy feat. If you go into it without any knowledge you will most likely just lose a lot of money.

Precious stones like gold are worthless, except it is refined and taken to the market for sale. One might have some exceptional skills, but he needs to keep improving on them to suit the current trend of such a profession. But the most difficult part of the pathway to success is how to take your services to people who need it. Without a proper or effective market, a good product or service will forever remain dormant in the warehouse or the mind.

This is why it is important to study the business behind your skills. You have to learn how other successful people in your endeavour were able to overcome challenges and properly market their service. You should also closely monitor successful people. Find a community that suits your skill and network with others. These days, talent is not enough because many talentless people are making so much money in diverse industries just because they understand how to persuade people to buy what they are selling.

And don't forget there's a big difference between becoming the best engineers and someone who manage many engineers.

Becoming the best engineers we can learn and work together with other engineers, the risk to fail is low because we're the one who work for it, we know if we're doing good or not.

But, someone who manage many engineers will be alone, all the pressure and responsibility are on his shoulder, they can't ask other people to help them anymore. Moreover, you're not supposed to work together with other engineers because your main objective is to manage people instead of handle the jobs.

It's always like that, how to market yourself is a lot more important than your skill but still not disregarding the important of the skill. because in a nutshell, poor performance but big talk means we're a liar.

if you ever worked in a job with clear career path and in a big company, you'd realize that the good impression of higher up toward you will yield better result than working endlessly.
I've seen it first hand and although it might seem unfair, but such is the reality.

so innate skill of hustling is definitely a need in this competitive world, because this means you're way ahead of your competition by several steps.

You have a very valid point here Mr Plguedeath as you have stressed the importance of mastery and exceptional service delivery which the Op did not address in his post. Although I try to understand the OP from the important of business which requires that one should be able to market the business properly because that is how contracts are secured. I know some good fashion designers that are not doing so well in their business whereas there are people that they are better than but because of how the package their business, they have more clients.

Marketing is a good way to gain popularity after having what it takes to compete with your competitors. But I have also realized that most businesses or skills require much time, and for the company or individual to handle the marketing by itself is a lot of stress which will reduce productivity. Every business needs a business developer and marketer to handle publicity and sales. Now we dont need to understand the craft business to do so, we just get to hire someone who will be in charge of that. Having the skills, and talent is more than enough to become successful. We just need to collaborate or hire someone who has what it takes to push so far.

That's the difficulty of having a business. If you want to make more profit, you need to not just understand how to do the business itself but also how to market it. It's a competition, and most of the time, other competitions have either better marketing teams or a better start. If you're fine with selling what you can, then I reckon it doesn't matter much. But if you want to compete with other businesses and grow, then yeah, a definite understanding of the market is needed. It's also the same with individual jobs, the best example I could probably give would be as a programmer and applying in FAANG. It's not just knowing how to program, it's going above that.

I often discuss the importance of marketing. It's important to let people know about your business, skill, or product. No matter how good a product is, the world won't know if it's not marketed properly. For you to market properly, you have to understand the market.
Most times, people just say "Get a skill". Getting the skill is hard, but after getting the skill, getting jobs is also hard. You have to connect with the right people before you can get jobs and level up.

When you understand how the market works, you will be able to market yourself properly.
So as you're learning the skill or starting the business, I agree that it's also important to pay attention to the industry or market you're operating in so you'll be able to navigate your affairs properly. That's why it is advisable to get a coach or mentor or just someone more experienced than you in the field to put you through. Doing things on your own can be very difficult.

Skill education comes with different plans and approach, all this is covered with modern marketing strategy and if anyone can build his/her skill towards a quality approach will definitely grow bigger. Like the example set why do we always think people go extra miles just to market their goods or why do people earn more when they’re both in same field rendering same service. There’s more attached to this including skill development, no one can be perfect likewise no one can earn huge without developing a skill, it must be together that’s the major reason people do better compared to others.
For example understanding the craft is important and totally different from marketing, both must have to be practiced for more experience, there’s this saying an experienced individual has what it takes to make progress.
Like that of the content creator I believe he understood what viewers want so he/she can focus fully in that area, personally I don’t give much attention to most online videos but when it comes to what I love watching I give my attention, we’ve all experienced same thing in most situations random videos pop up we just skip.

Yes, that's absolutely true, gaining knowledge about the work behind any craft you do is very important for success in any field you work in, as well as gaining the trust of customers and getting a good return.

In my opinion, love is also very necessary for success in any work, when you love what you are working on, you will definitely succeed because you will be creative in it, understand it completely and find enjoyment in it.

For example, I loved Bitcoin and Crypto, so I find enjoyment in working in this field, unlike my friends who I told about Bitcoin and found it very difficult because they did not like it and did not understand it, so they left the field early, while I have continued for several years until now and I am very happy.

I think if you extrapolate on this a little bit more it'd be better. In my experience having knowledge of many different sectors can greatly increase your earning potential and you can find that skills can overlap or be cross compatible. If your main skill is being a programmer, but you want to grow a successful website by yourself, eventually you might start learning to design graphics or start optimizing your content for search engines, maybe even start generating clips on youtube to bring in traffic - it can all be interlinked. If the website struggles to take off, but the youtube videos soar in popularity you can decide that it makes more sense to put your effort into that instead. This is the epitome of the entrepreneurial mindset, try and fail until you come up with an often unique magic formula for success.

That depends on your niche. Years ago when I wanted to earn money via YouTube, I was doing lots of research and found that the medical niche pays the most. A person with a YouTube channel in a medical niche will have 10 and sometimes 100 times higher CPC or PPV.

I am a UI/UX designer and I have been in touch with many customers. They simply want the product, they don't care about your wireframes, prototypes, or user personas, they want to see the live product with a minimalistic design. People often think that fancy designs and lots of animations or graphical content will get them hired but that's not true.

If there's anything I have learnt about business and skill and how to succeed is marketing, you can have a very good skill more than your competitors, but if you don't know how to market that  skill you will still be getting less offer compared to how your competitors are getting. You can also have that marketing skill and don't have much higher knowledge compared to your colleagues, but you can still be successful and be doing very well.

I think that self promotion should be done by telling people about your skill and how good you are. You can give discounts or charge very low in the beginning to create awareness in the public, because people from my country patronize cheap servives as long as it is a reliable one. You need to advertise yourself, or get someone to manage you. That person will be the one to look for clients for you. You might be good or an expert in your skill but you might not be a good promoter.

Getting the skill set is just one part of the job, the other important side of the job is making that skill set valuable that is being able to attract and keep customers who need your skill sets, It becomes the most difficult thing to do because you are not the only person who has the skill that you have and your customers are exposed to all persons having this same skill sets if you are unable to keep them satisfied, this is why you need to understand the kind of business that you are in and know what people who have been successful in it did. A way to have this experience is to ask advice from someone who is in this field and has more experience than you to help you with tips on how you can be successful and avoid some pitfalls while in the business. The experience of another person will be very valuable to the success of your business that involves your skill sets if you really take it.

It is as important as the business itself and it can't be overemphasized about having knowledge of any business you want to do. You may wonder why do already made business men like Aliko Dangote, Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg etc still pay to attend business symposiums and seminars. They want to stay up ahead with acknowledgement of  what and where the new market competition is directed at and how to stay ahead of their counterpart.  You may have talent in your area of craft but to stay top-notch and unique hence the need for acquisition of knowledge through more learning.

You were very informative about the need to use your craft to understand the business side. Especially in today's highly competitive economy. It's not just about talent. How we present and market these skills can make a huge difference in our success.

From my experience Having a thorough understanding of business strategy helps individuals maximize their potential, for example by knowing how to position themselves in the market. Understand the target group And using marketing strategies can elevate your career from good to desired. I've seen this in many ways. From technology to the world of creativity Those who understand how to acquire their talents often outperform those who do not. and regardless of knowledge




Indeed, good skills would normally yield better results. Nevertheless, to be really skilled and generate wealth Understand the market for that set of skills.

I would say that, in both, it is a learning process. Great engineers are not only the masters of the latest technology; in this case, one must also invest time in learning best customer management, communications, and marketing strategies. Both open interesting opportunities.

Furthermore, developing partnerships and partnerships in the industry also bolsters marketing capacity for developers. Work with others Attend a workshop Or, participate in online communities that would give them a perspective on talent development and business strategy.

There's an interesting fact about this discussion.

If you're really good web developer, but you didn't understand how to run a business from your skill, you can still earn good amount of money, although it doesn't make you big and become rich.

If you're just a mediocre web developer, but you understand how to run a business from your skill, you not able to earn as big as a good web developer because the clients can find many people who better than you.

What does this mean? you need to have both skills and how to sell your skills if you want to become rich.

Absolutely, you need to be able to market yourself and your abilities, or get together with a marketeer to market your abilities.
Business grows by adding. Not for nothing the share system is made to add shares and values to companies. One person is hardly ever successful, they have bundles of co-conspirators

  Social media have contributed to a small - narrow mindedness. Where one influencer makes bundles and you only find out later that he/she bought, founded more businesses. Digging deeper is where many fail. 

Considering the kind of competitive economy that we find ourselves in globally, getting only skillset isn't enough, how you're able to market your skillset such that in the midst of others that have similar quality like you, you still stand out and gain more advantage than them is what's also very important.

I watched a video by a content creator that talked about creating videos like his fellow content creators on Facebook and YouTube but had better revenue than them even though some of them had more views and engagement than him. It all balls down to understanding the business behind the content creation and going beyond mere creation of content to understanding how best to benefit from the monetization incentive.

It makes me realize that it's not just about being a good web developer or the best designer or content writer or even one with the biggest farm plantation that really matters. It's about understanding the business behind whatever craft you have or that you're doing that matters more. With better understanding of the business of your craft, you could outscale your competitors that might have better resource than you have at your disposal.

What's your view on this? How important is gaining knowledge on the business behind whatever craft you're doing?