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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Effectively Balance Multiple Projects at the Same Time | Ep. #1007

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1007, we discuss how to effectively balance multiple projects at the same time. Tune in to hear how we balance so many things. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles. Check out the details on this website if you would like to attend. Remember: we are capping the event at 500 people, so sign up now, if you’re interested! DM Eric if you would like to participate in the VIP dinner. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How to Effectively Balance Multiple Projects at the Same Time [00:45] We blog, podcast, run agencies, etc. [00:54] Most of our time is spent on marketing initiatives, but we are able to balance all this with our other duties. [01:21] Eric is working on his book Leveling Up. [02:10] It’s harder to make things work together when they are not all in the same industry. [02:35] Try to limit the industries in which you work. [03:10] Neil knows who on his team is good at a specific task, so he assigns each person a goal. [03:35] His team members are creative and this is helpful. [04:45] Someone came up with a concept on how to allocate resources at Google: 70-20-10. [05:03] 70% of your time should  be spent on revenue generating activities. [05:10] 20% of your time should be spent on adjacent activities. [05:24] 10% of your time should be spent on moon-shots (things that are long-shots and less likely to be successful, but should they work, would prove fruitful. [06:02] That’s it for today! [06:05] Don’t forget to check out Single Grain for more info about our free live event in June. 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

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great way to improve your load time. 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 how to effectively balance

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multiple projects at a time.

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So maybe we should give a little background here because

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even though we're focused around marketing we do work on multiple things.

1:08.6

Yeah, like for example with me and then Eric can go, uh, I write a blog

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so I write one post a week, I create videos for YouTube,

1:15.1

we both do a podcast together, we both have ad agencies, so even in one company we're doing

1:20.5

multiple projects within that company to grow.

1:23.0

For us, most of our time is spent on marketing-related initiatives,

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