It can be difficult to be an entrepreneur in the fast-paced world of today. There are tools, tips, tricks, and techniques that are always being shared as being the secrets to ensuring your business is successful. But these are changing year after year, and staying on top of them takes a lot of time, patience, and money. Instead, here are 7 tech skills you should definitely have under your belt to help you succeed as an entrepreneur.
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1. Wireframing
One of the biggest IT support tools at your disposal is a wireframe, especially if you’re running a one-man show. Without a tech team on your side, it takes a different way of looking at things to make them work. Essentially, wireframing tells visitors to your website how to use and navigate the framework of your site, giving you one less thing to worry about.
2. Search Engine Optimization
Also known as SEO, when the effort is put in to make it good, then you reap all the rewards of more site traffic. It ensures that your website is displayed on the first page of search engine results, if not at the top. Bombarding your website with SEO tags will only get it flagged by search engines as being spam, reducing the chances of your website showing up in results.
3. 3D Printing
With the advent of 3D printing, people are skipping contracting to a manufacturing service and doing the work themselves. 3D printing provides a lot of flexibility in developing prototypes, minimizing the need for a physical inventory, and not having to pay a third party to get the job done.
4. UX Design
UX design involves a strategy that should be developed before you even consider building a website. It will be the first experience that your users have, and you want it to be a good one.
5. Big Data Analysis
You’ll make the best-informed business decisions when you learn how to analyze big data. Big data reveals patterns and trends in human behavior, which you can then use to create impactful campaigns that are more likely to meet your customers’ needs.
6. Social Media
Social media platforms are now the way most businesses do their advertising. it provides them with engagement with their customers, and they, in return, can retweet or share your content with their followers, and you won’t have to do a thing. The problem lies with doing effective marketing on social media. There will be a lot of misses before you find the hits that are successful with your audience.
7. The Cloud
You want to have a good working knowledge of the Cloud and how it works. It’s a great way for you to store your data and have access to it whenever you need it, and with the right security measures in place, you won’t have to worry about your data being taken.
You should have a good grasp of these 7 technical skills if you want your start-up to see any kind of success. You’ll reap all the rewards without having to lift even a finger.
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