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Why Most SEOs FAIL, What To Do About The 95% Of People Who Won't Buy Now, SaaS vs WaaS vs RaaS

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2936, Eric Siu and Neil Patel discuss the evolution of marketing strategies, emphasizing the importance of adaptability in the SEO landscape. They also talked about how to reach the majority of potential buyers who are not ready to purchase immediately, and the differences between SaaS and RAS models in the marketing industry. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES (00:00) Adapting in a Changing Marketing Landscape (05:01) Engaging the 95%: Strategies for Future Buyers (09:52) Understanding SaaS vs RAS: The Future of Services (14:51) Innovative Strategies for Target Account Acquisition Prefer single topic episodes? Head over to our YouTube channel. To suggest a topic, go to https://www.marketingschool.io. For more content from Eric and Neil, check out Eric’s Leveling Up with Eric Siu YouTube channel and Neil’s Neil Patel YouTube channel. Connect with Us: Single Grain << Eric's ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency X @neilpatel, @ericosiu Instagram @neilpatel, @ericosiu  Drop Us a Review If You Enjoyed the Episode!

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0:00.0

I threw up a posting about how SEOs are obsolete.

0:04.2

I think it might be helpful for us to talk about how we've adapted in our careers because we started as SEOs.

0:11.3

And so we're not necessarily beholden to just one channel, but you can tell who's beholden to one because they start to really push back.

0:17.2

And earlier I used that Charlie Munger quote, like if your job depends on you not understanding something, you're not going to understand it.

0:22.2

And if you don't want to change, you don't want to understand it either.

0:25.9

But maybe I think let's just do an experience share here about how we've adapted over time.

0:30.8

Because when I think about, okay, 25 year old you, 24 year old me, I remember I was telling you all the tree house numbers on how we were doing with courses.

0:38.2

And you made it like, you started adapting.

0:39.5

You started making courses, right?

0:41.5

Then I was like, we were walking down, I think, 3rd Street in near Beverly Hills, near

0:47.6

Beverly Center.

0:48.2

West Hollywood.

0:49.4

West Hollywood.

0:49.9

We're walking to creation and get some juice, right?

0:51.8

And I was like, dude podcasting i've been great they've been so beneficial yeah let's do it so all of a sudden we have a podcast right but then you started doing a

0:57.9

youtube channel so my point of saying all this is that we've never been beholden to just one channel

1:02.9

and we've always tried to adapt to wherever the attention is and that's what marketing is and i think

1:07.6

the big problem with a lot of sUs that have been stuck in the same spot,

1:14.5

it tends to be the ones that complain all the time is they don't adapt and they expect things to be the same. They expect the world to be the same. And when it's not the same, they lash out

1:18.4

and they don't change. But they don't look inside and they're not like, oh man, maybe I should

1:22.4

have done something. Most SEOs look at SEO is just pure Google.

1:32.7

And they think they're SEO, and that's a way to succeed, instead of thinking,

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