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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Marketing Stories We've Never Shared Before #1979

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1979, Eric and Neil share a few marketing tales that haven’t been heard on this show before. Neil speaks about many of his creative SEO hacks as a youngster and Eric weighs in on his experiments with affiliate sites. While these early efforts from our hosts are interesting and generated quick success for them, none of them had any lasting power. The moral of the story: slow and steady wins the race! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:20] Today’s topic: Marketing Stories We’ve Never Shared Before. [00:25] Shortcuts Neil took such as converting a battlefield site into an online casino. [02:44] The moral of Neil’s stories: slow and steady wins the race! [03:09] How Eric is using his network to grow his LinkedIn reach. [04:12] Two of Eric’s experiences building affiliate sites and what he learned. [06:19] That’s it for today! [06:20] Go to https://marketingschool.io/live to apply for our next event in Austin, Texas!   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   Subscribe to our premium podcast (with tons of goodies!): https://www.marketingschool.io/pro   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

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.4

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors, Neil Patel, and Eric

0:16.8

Sue.

0:18.1

We got a special message from our sponsor.

0:22.8

If you want to rank higher on Google, you've got to look at your paid speed time.

0:27.3

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

0:30.1

With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your

0:34.1

site for low time.

0:36.3

And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use DreamHouse.

0:40.8

So just go to DreamHouse or Google it, find it, check it out, and it's a great way to

0:45.7

improve your low time.

0:47.5

All right.

0:48.5

So I wanted to take a second to tell you about my ad agency, Single grain.

0:53.2

So the cool thing about Single grain is that we do a whole host of things, paid media

0:57.2

SEO, conversion rate optimization, and we are offering a free marketing plan.

1:02.6

So if you just Google Single grain marketing plan, you will be able to find it and you

1:08.8

can just register for a free marketing plan and our team will get back to you.

1:12.4

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

1:17.6

If you want to rank higher on Google, you've got to look at your paid speed time.

1:22.2

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

1:25.0

With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your

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