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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Why You'll Lose Money by Going to College | Ep. #506

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Business, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #506, Eric and Neil explain why they believe college is an outdated process that isn’t necessary for everyone. They believe you can learn everything you need to know about marketing through Internet research, online courses, and real-world experience. Tune in to hear more about their thoughts on why college may be an expensive waste of time.  Time-Stamped Show Notes:  [00:27] Today’s Topic: Why You'll Lose Money by Going to College [00:59] Neil believes the advice and information you’re going to learn in college is outdated. [01:14] The internet has the most recent and updated information about your field. [01:56] Eric says that if you are motivated enough, you can learn just as quickly. [02:00] Eric always disliked school, because it was a process or system he didn’t enjoy. [02:45] Eric learned everything about marketing that he uses after college on his own time. [03:15] The only time you need college is if you’re going to be an engineer or a doctor. [03:28] Education is not a waste of money, but you will lose money, because what you learn is outdated and you can learn more updated, useful info learning in the real world. [04:35] Udemy and Udacity are great places to learn what you need a la carte and it will cost significantly less. [05:05] The traditional college process is broken and there are better ways to learn nowadays. [05:15] That’s it for today! [05:17] Eric and Neil recommend the Problem Solvers podcast, because there is a great episode about the Hello Fresh CEO. To listen go to singlegrain.com/solve. 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

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

0:14.5

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

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0:51.6

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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

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And today we're going to talk about why you lose money by going to college.

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What do you think?

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Yeah, it's funny, you know, you've seen articles out there of people being like

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college is a waste of time.

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You'll end up losing money because you're taking all these years of your life and you have to end up paying all this debt back.

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And I'm not talking about, you know, Eric can I have different points on this but when we talk about losing money, I don't think about it as, oh, you're spending money on college,

1:25.2

because I look at that as you're learning something and I don't look at that as a loss.

1:28.8

What I mean is when you're losing money by going to college is the advice and

1:34.0

advice and information you're going to learn is outdated.

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