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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Why We Don't Watch The News | Ep. #626

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #626, Eric and Neil explain why they don’t watch the news. Tune in to hear why  television news is a waste of your time. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: Why We Don't Watch The News [00:33] The news media is just another business. [00:45] It’s a viewership-driven business and they thrive on ad revenue. [01:00] Instead, Eric follows different people on Twitter and gets his news from that. [01:20] TV news is just noise! [02:21] You can get your news by browsing news sites instead. [02:34] If something really important or big happens, you will most likely find out about it on Twitter or social media, anyway. [03:15] By not spending time posting on social media, you gain a lot of hours back. [03:44] To beat your competition, focus on your business and what matters as opposed to being obsessed with frivolous social media posts. [04:40] The Economist Espresso is one or two paragraphs and summarizes the most important stories. [05:00] “If you want to do well, stop wasting your time” -Neil [05:07] That’s all for today! [05:10] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! 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

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

0:11.4

marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

0:14.5

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

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

0:27.0

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site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream

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great way to improve your load time.

0:51.6

Welcome to another episode of marketing school.

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I'm Errik Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about why we don't watch the news, so I'll kick it off.

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The way the news, the media is set up is just another business. They're designed to

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get clicks. They're designed to get people to fall in and basically watch

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their content or click on their titles to get more advertising dollars.

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The more views that they have, it's a very viewership driven kind of business.

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So it's designed to manipulate people and well as marketers we and also entrepreneurs as well we

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understand how that business works that way that's why we don't fall into the

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trap so what I do instead is I just follow very specific people whether it's entrepreneurs VCs or you

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know investors on Twitter and I make these different lists and the most important

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