Is It a Good Time to Start a Marketing Agency? | Ep. #1441

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In episode #1441, we talk about whether it is a good time to start a marketing agency. With all the craziness happening in the world right now, you might be wondering where this leaves you and your business plans. Tune in to hear about how to take advantage of these times and why blaming others for the current difficulties won't work! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: Is It A Good Time to Start a Marketing Agency? [00:32] The current economic and political climate; the pandemic and protests. [00:42] An expected return to normal and what this means for starting a business . [01:19] The types of businesses that are still succeeding in this context. [02:10] Results that agencies are currently experiencing with small tweaks. [03:35] Drops in revenue due to COVID-19 and ways to keep growing in spite of it. [04:44] Using Startup Runway to map out possible scenarios. [05:35] Where are people hanging out and how can you make the most of these spaces. [06:20] Picking a niche, finding funded companies and breaking down how they can improve. [06:57] That’s it for today! [07:00] 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: Startup Runway CrunchBase 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.
0:49.1	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel and today we're going to talk about if it's a good time to start a marketing agency.
1:00.0	So right now just to give context for everyone, we're in the middle of COVID and we are in the
1:03.8	middle of riots and protests right now in the United States at least.
1:07.9	So we have a lot going on so Neil I'll go over to you first.
1:11.2	Do you think it's a good time why or why not? So whether it's a bad economy, good
1:15.7	economy, a recession, or there's things that you can't control, it's life. I do believe over time things do go back to normal you know specifically I'm talking
1:25.8	about things like COVID where eventually they'll go away so I believe anytime is a
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