Do You Need to Be Able to Code to Be a Successful Online Marketer? | Ep. #85

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #85 Neil and Eric ask whether or not you need to be able to code to be a successful marketer. Coding will help you in a lot of ways but it’s not the only thing you should know about! Listen as Eric and Neil share what you should consider. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:28 – Today’s topic: Do you need to be able to code to be a successful online marketer? 00:37 – NO, You don’t need to do coding 00:42 – HTML skills are helpful but it’s not necessary 00:50 – Some tools to help you become successful are ClickFunnels, Lead Pages, Unbounce, and Wordpress 01:12 – In general, you don’t need to learn to code 01:31 – You can always hire a developer in Upwork 01:59 – Eric joined Treehouse to learn coding but ended up doing marketing more 03:03 – Stay in your lane, stay focused 03:13 – Be very creative and technical 03:44 – You also need to be able to understand math 05:17 – Use Zapier so you can hook different web applications together 06:17 – If you want to learn data science, check DataCamp 06:34 – If you want to learn coding, check Treehouse and Codecademy 06:44 – Check web analytics to learn more about analytics 07:10 – Read Kaushik’s blog 07:42 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Coding is not a requirement but it’s helpful. You can always hire people to code for you. Remember to be creative, technical, and focused. 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

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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
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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 your host Erritu.
0:57.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:58.0	And today we're going to talk about if you need to be able to code to be a successful online marketer I think this will be
1:04.6	short and sweet Neil when you get started no I think you do to have basic
1:12.3	H.T.M. It's really helpful because then you're going to have to end up paying people to do a lot of little things
1:17.0	But there are so many tools these days that allow you to become successful click funnels lead pagesbalanced. You can all create sites now with little
1:24.8	coding experience. Wordpress, one of the best CMS is out there, if not the best CMS. You don't
1:30.3	have to have a coding bone in your body, right? A lot of things are drag and drop these days.
1:34.7	If you have some coding skills, like just basic HTML, at least you'll be able to edit links or see if there's something wrong on a page.
1:42.2	But in general, you don't need to learn how to code
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