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We spent 45 minutes on a call with the prince of epic content marketing – Neil Patel.

We have bi-weekly calls just like this available to members of our private community, but we opened this one up to the public.

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• Sites - QuickSprout, Kiss Metrics & Crazy Egg
  
• Ideas – Neil’s co-founder Hiten Shah sends Neil ideas
  
• Infographics – Outsourced to his designer friend
  
• Blog posts – Neil comes up with 75 – 80% of the topics
  
• Grammar and spelling – MS Word for spell checking
  
• Editing – Neil pays 3 cents a word for edits
  
• Stock images – Uses his free Fotilia account
  
• Post schedule – He ships 3 times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  
• Getting started – Paid guest authors with big audiences $200 per post
  
• Building traction - Took 4 years to get Quicksprout to 100k monthly visits
  
• Traffic –  500k monthly visits to Quicksprout… wow!
  
• Conversion rate – Neil reveals his actual email opt ins…
  
• Best skill – Getting deals for pennies on the dollar – he flips Vegas real estate!
  
• Biggest failure - Losing $1,000,000 on a web hosting company
  
• Lesson learned - Execution is the only thing that really matters
  
• Email list - 10,000 subscribers is a  tipping point – but remember…
  

Quality trumps quantity.

Let us know if you enjoyed the show.

If you have any questions for Neil, please post them in the comments and we will ask him to answer them.