Should You Buy Marketing Courses? | Ep. #301

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #301, Eric and Neil discuss whether or not you should buy marketing courses. Tune in to learn the importance of putting learning BEFORE earning and why paying for a course is sometimes more beneficial than trying a free one. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: Should You Buy Marketing Courses? 00:39 – There’s a time for learning and there’s a time for earning 00:51 – Check Neil’s advance marketing course or his other courses that he has available 01:03 – Keep reading and keep learning! 01:12 – Implement what you have learned 01:25 – If you’re starting off, courses are great 01:30 – If you’re not starting off, the best way to learn is by networking at events and by practicing and doing things on your own website 01:44 – Neil is a big believer that it is easier to learn through DOING 01:51 – Neil’s current courses are about investments 01:53 – Neil invested in a Canadian company 02:17 – Instead of buying courses, Neil is investing on someone who already is doing them 02:30 – When Eric first learned about marketing, he had access to a site where he could buy courses or learn from free courses 03:03 – The problem with free courses is you have too much information available for you and you’re not really invested in it 03:37 – An executive once said, people buy courses because courses are perceived progress 03:49 – If you buy courses, finish and complete them 04:13 – Marketing School is giving away a free 1 year subscription to Zapier which allows you to have different applications working with each other 04:47 – Subscribe, rate and review Marketing School 04:51 – Text MARKETINGSCHOOL to 33444 05:09 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Put yourself in learning mode every day; there’s always an opportunity to learn something new. Paying for a course is an investment—use it well and apply what you’ve learned. If you have the knowledge, continue your learning by DOING. 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 with
0:14.9	your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:50.8	low time.
0:51.8	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we're going to talk about if you should buy marketing courses.
1:01.0	So I think this was an interesting one because both you and I have been in the course world in the education space.
1:07.0	I think, you know, there's a time for learning and there's a time for earning, right? So that's actually a really good post from Mark Suster,
1:14.2	who's a venture capitalist,
1:16.4	and he talks about learning versus earning, right?
1:18.4	So if you don't know any marketing yet,
1:21.1	definitely, you know, check out Neil's Advanced Marketing Program or
1:24.1	check out other courses that are out there, right? You should definitely be learning,
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