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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

7 Marketing Lessons You Can Learn From Fortnite | Ep. #887

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In episode #887, we discuss the marketing lessons you can learn from Fortnite. Tune in to hear what they did to become so successful. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress here! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: 7 Marketing Lessons You Can Learn From Fortnite [00:40] Fortnite is free to play. [00:55] Freemium is a great way to entice people. [01:12] Acquire the volume first, then collect revenue. [01:30] You don’t have to be perfect right off the bat. [01:40] Adapt and add new things later. [02:08] Fortnite has taken elements from other games. [02:41] They use channel-based marketing. [03:55] Don’t forget to engage with your community. [04:25] Especially talk to the most popular people in your community. [04:49] There’s no such thing as bad press. [05:05] Neil has gotten bad press before, but it didn’t matter. Their traffic went through the roof. [05:35] Fortnite allows cross-platform play. [06:10] When you allow for that, you allow for a bigger community. [06:16] That’s it for today! [06:20] Go here to see how many downloads the show is getting. Also rate and review to help us meet our goal of 1 Million downloads per month. Hopefully, we’ll see you at the live event in L.A.! Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school with

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your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

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Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about seven marketing lessons

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that you can learn from Fort Knight.

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So Fort Knight, for those of you that don't know, it's a game released by Epic Games and it's a free to play a game and it's a first person shooter and there has been, look, you got NFL superstars, you know know people that have made themselves celebrities from playing this game and I've actually played it for a little bit and I found it really enjoyable

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So I guess I can kick things off so the first marketing lesson around Fortnite is what I just talked about. It's free to play. It's, let's call it freemium. You basically pay afterwards, you acquire a bunch of users, and then you pay for like skin upgrades, weapon, maybe weapon skins, things like that. Those are all add-ons on top and then skin

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like that. Those are all add-ons on top and then you can also buy like season packs and all that.

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It's like all the stuff they acquired the volume first and then they start to collect revenue.

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In marketing we all believe that you have to be perfect from day one.

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If you look at Fortnite, what they ended up doing is they release something that was good

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