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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

7 Social Media Hacks That'll Make You Stand Out From The Noise | Ep. #616

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #616, Eric and Neil discuss the 7 hacks you can use to stand out from the crowd. Tune in to hear what you should be doing to make an impression. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: 7 Social Media Hacks That'll Make You Stand Out From The Noise [00:42] #1: Neil took the most popular influencers and had them take photos of themselves holding signs that said, “Who is Neil Patel?”. Over the years, he has closed deals because people remembered this campaign. [01:26] #2: Allbird has custom illustrations and videos on Instagram. That kind of thing will help you stand out. [02:06] #3: See what’s working for your competitors and is getting them the most shares. Then, create similar content or posts. [02:38] #4: Social Blade shows stats for YouTube. You can see channel’s growth rates and what helped them achieve that growth. This will help you figure out what tactics to copy. [03:23] #5: Increase engagement by boosting posts to people on your fan page. [04:11] #6: Build pods with like-minded people and power-like each other’s posts. [04:38] #7: Figure out what each social network is missing. Facebook is trying to work on video, LinkedIn has a lot of gaps, etc. If you give the social network what they are lacking, they will promote it. [05:34] That’s all for today! [05:36] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! 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

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with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

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great way to improve your load time.

0:51.6

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Erritu.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about seven social media hats that will make you stand out from the noise.

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So Neil, I remember you doing a social media thing for your

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Instagram campaign. Can you talk about that and how that quote-unquote hack worked?

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Yeah, sure. So I'll start off with the first hack. With

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social media there's so much clutter and so much noise out there you have to get

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creative. One of the hacks I did was I took the most popular influencers and I had them hold up signs, men, women,

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someone actually did it with their pet animal,

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and it was a hold up signs being like, who is Neil Patel?

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