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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How Unhappy Customers Will Make You Grow - As Long As You Do This | Ep. #560

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #560, Eric and Neil discuss ways that unhappy customers can actually help you grow as a business. Tune in to hear how you can turn failure into future success. Time-Stamped Show Notes: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How Unhappy Customers Will Make You Grow - As Long As You Do This [00:55] Eric’s business grew 139% in 2017, but there was an “incident” and they lost 40% of their clients. [01:31] So they called an all-hands meeting and found out why they lost the clients. [01:50] Eric then reached out to the clients to see what their experience had been. [02:02] If you talk to your customers, it will help you figure out what needs to be fixed. [02:26] Neil calls former clients to see why they left and he performs surveys every month for current clients. [03:14] There is a process in place now at Eric’s company to help retain clients. [04:22] You need to do whatever it takes to improve. [04:36] Talking to unhappy customers helps you grow as a business. [05:18] If you please the majority of the customer base, they will remain loyal. [05:37] Eric personally reaches out to happy clients and he finds out what their goals are for the coming year. [06:24] That’s all for today! [06:26] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special 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

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

0:14.5

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.

0:27.0

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site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream

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0:49.7

to improve your load time.

0:51.3

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel,

0:58.0

and today we are going to talk about how unhappy customers

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will make you grow, as long as you do this.

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Here's the thing.

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When your business is growing, you're like,

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yeah, everything's good, we don't need to change anything

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and life is awesome.

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And Eric had this during 2000 and end of 2017 or mid-2017

1:19.2

actually if you just look at 2017 as a whole year Eric your business group by what percentage?

1:24.3

139%? 139% but towards the end of 2017 you had an incident you guys lost a lot of clients. Yep we lost a lot of clients.

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