Is M&A a Reliable Growth Channel? #1844

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In episode #1844, we talk about whether it is worthwhile to do mergers and acquisitions. The first thing to remember is that all M&A refers to is buying businesses, meaning it can be done on any scale and is therefore in most business owners’ reach. Today we cover how to vet a new business before buying it and what to expect once you are merging it into your one. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: Is M&A a Reliable Growth Channel? [00:26] Understanding more about M&A and how it is not out of your reach. [00:45] Looking for businesses that are in your niche with a different offer to yours. [01:46] Buying businesses with a similar OS to the one you use. [03:21] Being disciplined and focusing on one merger/acquisition at a time. [03:34] Keeping the management team in place for as long as possible. [03:55] The typical fail and churn rate for a merger or acquisition. [04:41] That’s it for today! [04:42] Go to marketingschool.io/live to learn more about our upcoming live event. Get ad-free listening plus exclusive content with Marketing School Pro. Try for free at www.marketingschool.io/pro Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: 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.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips
0:06.4	and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.
0:11.8	Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors, Neil Patel, and Eric
0:16.8	Sue.
0:17.8	All right guys, before we start, we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:24.1	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:28.6	The faster your website loads, the better off you are.
0:31.4	With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
0:35.5	site for low time.
0:37.7	And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use, Dreamhost.
0:42.2	So just go to Dreamhost or Google it, find it, check it out, and it's a great way to improve
0:47.7	your low time.
0:48.7	Today, we're going to talk about if M&A is a reliable growth channel.
0:54.9	So M&A is mergers and acquisitions, and it sounds fancy.
1:00.3	It sounds crazy.
1:01.3	You might be like, oh, I'm not, I don't do M&A.
1:03.1	I'm not in private equity.
1:04.3	I'm not like, you know, I'm not trying to buy things within my company.
1:08.6	That's what M&A is at the end of the day.
1:09.9	You're just buying other companies and you're merging them in.
1:12.8	So Neil, you want to start first?
1:14.4	The easiest way, M&A is a reliable channel as long as you're buying businesses that have
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Eric Siu and Neil Patel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Eric Siu and Neil Patel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.