Jun 10, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 10 segments
Jeff Dudan's free digital copy of his bookhttps://podcast.homefrontbrands.com/en-us/discernment One article. 45 minutes of writing. $40…
Jeff DudenHostThe first article I ever wrote that was how much does a fiberglass pool cost based on the number of leads we've gotten from it.
Now it's over, I think at this point, it's like a little bit over $40 million in revenue from one article that took me 45 minutes to write at my kitchen table.
You're competing against humans that are using agents and you're still just trying to use your own knowledge.
I'm like, please, for the love of all that's pure and holy, stop treating it like Google.
Start treating it truly as a team member that you need to engage with in order to get the most from it.

If you immediately recognized that you were unemployable from your very first job out of college and you left that and jumped into the deep end with a residential pool startup, which went swimmingly until the 2008 housing crisis left the business barely treading water and the checking account drained.

Instead of going under, Marcus turned crisis into triumph and by becoming one of the world's leading authority on inbound marketing and leveraging the hard questions that consumers wanted answered to engage educate drive leads and create customers your name can only be marcus sheridan thank you for being on marcus
hey man i'm so happy to be here we're gonna have i got a feeling a great conversation today

Why do people default to selling themselves instead of simply addressing what matters the most to a buyer?
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