Being Dumb Will Make You More Money | Ep. #906

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In episode #906, we discuss how being dumb can make you more money. Tune in to see what we actually mean by this! 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: Being Dumb Will Make You More Money [00:50] You don’t have to be good at everything to do well. [01:08] Eric can’t code and he’s not detail oriented. [01:25] He is aware of what his talents are and where he could improve. [01:45] Neil is good at HTML and PHP, but “sucks” at management. [02:45] Neil’s mom told him he had no common sense. [03:35] There is so much information out there, so it’s important to audit yourself and make sure you have just enough, but not too much on your plate. [04:10] Make sure you hire the right people who will excel at things the you do not. [05:15] Be really good at what you enjoy and find people to fill in the gaps. [06:15] Remember to be humble and accept weaknesses in yourself. [06:52] That’s all for today! [06:58] 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
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school with
0:14.9	your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:51.6	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we are going to talk about how being dumb
1:00.0	will make you more money.
1:02.0	I like this title. Yeah in general everyone wants to learn
1:05.5	everything or they want to learn it on their own they want to be a jack of all trades
1:09.7	that's just not going to end up happening. And what Eric and I wanted to end up talking about in this podcast episode is focus.
1:18.4	You don't have to be good at everything to do well.
1:21.9	Yeah, and I think I'll speak for both of us you can correct me if I'm wrong I think in the beginning days we thought we had to know everything.
1:28.0	Yes now let's go over some of the things you're weak at and then I'll go over mine. I probably have more than you.
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