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What's Neil and Eric's Biggest Marketing Regret? #1706

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What's Neil and Eric's Biggest Marketing Regret? In episode #1706, we share our biggest regrets from our business careers! For Neil, it has to do with opting to focus on quality over quantity early on, and the results of this choice, while Eric feels that he has focussed on too many different channels when he could have specialized more. Tune in to hear about it all!  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: What's Neil and Eric's Biggest Marketing Regret? [00:30] Neil's experiences going against the philosophy of Dharmesh Shah and HubSpot. [02:02] Eric's regrets around focusing on too many different channels. [03:24] Mistakes are a part of business; learning from them is what counts. [03:24] Go to https://marketingschool.io/pro for 14 days free entry into our community! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   HubSpot Dharmesh Shah   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.

0:17.8

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

0:24.1

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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, DreamHouse.

0:42.1

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

0:47.1

improve your low time.

0:48.7

All right, so today we are going to talk about the biggest regret that Neil and I have

0:56.4

had in terms of marketing.

0:59.5

So I'll go first.

1:00.5

My biggest regret is a simple one that one day when Darmesh Shah was creating HubSpot.

1:06.1

This was years and years ago.

1:08.3

At that time, it actually was already created, but it was an early stage company.

1:11.9

Just race and venture capital was raising a bit more.

1:16.4

And we also had a startup at the time.

1:19.5

And Darmesh said, you know, one of the keys to content marketing was you just need to

1:23.6

create a lot of content and tons of it.

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