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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

The Importance of Being a T-shaped Marketer | Ep. #22

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Marketing School Podcast—your resource to learn, grown, and nurture your passion for online marketing! In Episode #22 Eric and Neil discuss the importance of being a t-shaped marketer. There are specialists and there are t-shaped marketers -- also called growth hackers -- who understand a lot of different concepts of digital marketing. Enjoy! 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

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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

0:14.6

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.6

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to improve your low time. Okay everyone, it's time for another episode of Marketing School and I hope you're ready.

0:57.0

I'm your host, Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.

0:59.0

And today we're going to talk about the importance of being a T-shaped marketer.

1:04.6

So what the heck is a T-shaped marketer?

1:06.7

Well, to make it simple to understand, there's specialists and then there are T-shaped marketers or you can call them growth hackers and these are the people that understand the different disciplines of digital marketing, right?

1:19.0

So it can be they understand the concepts around email marketing, pay-per-click, marketing funnels across the board, but they do specialize in one area. So let's say you understand in general these other subjects and you specialize in one area

1:33.2

the middle area that you specialize in that's what creates this T-shaped

1:37.3

so that's why it's called a T-shaped marketer in the first place so if I know all these

1:41.1

other subjects and I specialize in SEO I can be considered a T-shaped marketer.

1:45.6

Now, versus a specialist, especially just really understands one area.

1:49.5

I might understand a little bit about the other ones but not too much so you want someone

1:54.1

that's a T-shaped marketer because they bring a lot more benefit to the table now I

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