Nate TilleyCo-Founder, ROAS · Direct Response Expert

These are the skills I'd learn if I had to start over....

Name: These are the skills I'd learn if I had to start over....
Uploaded: 2024-05-22T20:30:00+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Nate Tilley
Description: The video (by Nate Tilley, uploaded May 22, 2024) gives practical career advice for digital marketers. It recommends being broadly competent across…

22 May 2024 · 1 min

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The video (by Nate Tilley, uploaded May 22, 2024) gives practical career advice for digital marketers. It recommends being broadly competent across channels (email, SEO, Facebook ads) but specializing deeply in one area to gain compound returns. The speaker emphasizes prioritizing skills with long "half-lives"—storytelling, communication, showmanship, and leadership—because platform-specific tactics (e.g., Facebook ads) change rapidly.

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If you want to be a good digital marketer, you want to know about email marketing, you want to know a little bit about SEO, you want to know about Facebook ads, you want to know enough to be a little bit dangerous in all of those things, then you want to pick one specialty that you go very, very deep in. And I like to go very, very deep on the skill set that I get the most compound interest for and has the longest half life. What we know about Facebook ads now is going to be entirely different to what we know about it in four years time. What are those skill sets that are going to continue to provide divide forever? Storytelling, communication, showmanship, leadership. They're going to be present in a year's time, in 10 years time. I try to focus on the things that aren't going to change, not the ones that are going to change because everything's changing so quickly.