Sujan Patel

Sujan is the leading expert in digital marketing. He is a hard working & high energy individual fueled by his passion to help people and solve problems. Sujan is the VP of Marketing of When I Work, a SaaS business he’s helped grow 300% year over year for the last 3 years. He is also the co founder of Content Marketer, a popular content marketing tool he created based on a huge problem he saw in the industry. Sujan is an avid blogger and writes 6 blog posts a week for publications like Forbes, WSJ, Inc and Entrepreneur Magazine. When Sujan isn’t working his normal 80 hour work weeks (13.3 hours a day, 6 days a week) you can find him at the gym in the early hours of the day or at the race track racing cars and motorcycles. If you’re in the Austin, TX area and look up there’s a chance you might see even see him fall from the sky with his latest hobby, skydiving which emerged from his effort to conquer his fear of heights.
Hustler
“He’s always had an entrepreneurial spirit and hustle. I remember when he was 7 years old I took him Costco and while shopping he stops and asks, “how much do you think people will pay for this bag of popcorn?” I answered $2-3 dollars jokingly. The next afternoon I saw Sujan with a huge smile on his face walking down the street back with a 20 dollar bill in his hand...yelling, “mom you were wrong people would pay 20 big ones for bag of popcorn”, says Sujan’s mom. A decade later he was selling mixed tapes/CDs to his classmates in high school. Sujan briefly attended the University of California Irvine although if you ask him he’d say he went to the School of Hard Knocks. During his time at UCI he started an ecommerce business selling car parts which is helped him learn Internet Marketing and SEO.
Risk Taker
He’s definitely a risk taker says Amy, his wife of 10 years. “Sujan asked me to marry him 2 week into our relationship, I jokingly said yes” That answer changed his life forever..over the next few years Sujan went from college dropout to making over $200k a year as the head of SEO at Oversee.net. In 2009, Sujan left Oversee.net to focus on Single Grain again – giving himself a one-year window in which to gain as many clients as possible. With Oversee.net signing on as one of his first client, Sujan was able to move to San Francisco and finish out his first year with great revenue, high profit margins and his first official employee. In 2011 a mutual friend introduced him to AJ Kumar (though it turned out that the two had actually grown up together), who turned out to be an ideal partner for Sujan’s business goals. Sujan went “all in,” bringing AJ on as his co-founder and VP of Sales & Marketing. Over the next 2 years the dynamic duo turned Single Grain into a power house agency with revenues of soaring 3 million dollars in 2013.
Screw Money
Sujan was tired (and burned out ) so he sold his agency and spent the next 2 years leading with passion/helping people mentality rather than his desire for money. Ultimately he joined one his clients, When I Work as the VP of Marketing . During this time Sujan immersed himself in the world of SaaS, growth hacking & content marketing helping When I Work grow over 900%. He also wrote the book on Growth hacking which sold over 10k copies worldwide. Over the last few years Sujan has helped 117 entrepreneurs grow their business by providing personalized marketing advice all for free. “I’ve made more than I can even imagine over the last year just by focusing on helping people rather than making money.. the best part of this is that I don’t even care about the money..I’ve helped 117 F’ing people 10x their businesses” says Sujan.
Push the Limits
“Push the limit..that’s an understatement..For a year straight he woke up at 6am, hit the gym and worked 10 hours and all on a 1200 calories a day diet. The best thing is that he used what he learned and turned around and helped whip me into shape” says AJ Kumar, Co-founder of Single Grain. Sujan has also conquered his fear of heights and now spends his weekends skydiving. And has overcome his fear of public speaking..you can find him speaking at industry conferences and events. “If there’s one thing I know about Sujan, it’s that he’s always going to push himself to be faster, better & stronger than he was yesterday. Both professional and personally” says Neil Patel.