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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How Long it REALLY Takes For a Business to be Successful | Ep. #1179

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1179, we share how long it really takes for a business to become successful! There is always a period of learning and growing that happens with any business and we believe it often takes three years to experience profitability and stability, no matter who you are. Tune in to hear how we have learned this lesson with our different businesses! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: How Long it Really Takes for a Business to be Successful. [00:48] Ways to measure success; starting with revenue and profitability. [01:20] Managing the difficulties and pain of the first two years. [03:04] All the things that can go wrong in the early stages. [03:59] The rule of three; waiting out the teething years.  [04:19] That’s it for today! [04:21] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: ClickFlow CrazyEgg Ubersuggest 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

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.5

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your

0:14.3

instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.2

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

0:24.0

If you want to rank higher on Google,

0:25.9

you got to look at your paid speed time.

0:28.5

The faster your website loads, the better off you are.

0:31.3

With Google's core vital update,

0:33.0

that makes it super, super important

0:34.8

to optimize your site for low time.

0:37.6

And one easy way to do it is use the host

0:40.0

that Eric and I use, Dreamhost.

0:42.0

So just go to Dream Host or Google it.

0:44.8

Find it, check it out, and it's a great way

0:47.0

to improve your low time.

0:50.4

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel and today

0:55.7

we're just talk about how long it really takes for a business to be successful.

0:59.3

So Neil, your first business, ACS marketing consulting,

1:02.1

advanced consulting services?

1:04.4

Yeah, that's right.

1:05.6

Yeah, there you go.

1:06.6

Silly name, but yeah.

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