#10: How to Find Your First Marketing Job

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In Episode #10 Eric and Neil help you decide where to start out for your first marketing job. They weigh the pros and cons of an agency or working in house, and they discuss what really matters most—your learning and growth. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:25 – What should your first marketing job be? 00:45 – Agency vs. in house 01:10 – Where should people should go? – Agency. 01:40 – The poker analogy 02:10 – Becoming a well-rounded marketer 02:45 – Getting into the agency world 03:05 – Growth potential 03:45 – Break Media 04:25 – Agency people typically have higher skills and more experience 05:25 – Neil’s experience at a startup 06:45 – Where’s the company at? 07:10 – “Are you growing or not?” 07:30 – Opportunities will continue to come as you learn and grow 08:20 – Experience is worth more than the pay 08:40 – Subscribe to this podcast and leave a rating and review! 3 Key Points: Starting at an agency will give you a better learning environment. Your first salary should not be as important as the experience and opportunity for growth. Once you get in the door and continue gaining experience, the better opportunities will come. Resources Mentioned: Break Media (now Defy Media) – A company that produces online video content 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

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:49.7	to improve your low time. All right everyone, welcome to another edition of Marketing School, and today we're going to be talking about
0:59.2	what should your first marketing job be, agency or in-house. I'm your host Eric Sue and I'm Neil
1:05.5	Patel and we're going to jump into it right now and I guess I can start with this
1:08.9	first coming from the agency world you have two different options, right?
1:13.1	Agency is you're working at a marketing agency, you're helping clients grow,
1:17.1	you're doing a lot of different things and you're being tasked with a lot of different things.
1:20.3	In-house is kind of similar, especially when you're working at a startup.
1:24.0	So I've been on both sides of this. In-house, sometimes you're more specialized and, you know, the
1:28.6	earlier stage a company is, the more work you have to do, the more hats you have to wear.
1:34.4	I've been at more mature companies where it's a couple hundred people and you're just
1:37.8	kind of specializing in one area. So Neil, I mean, you know, after me giving a description, I mean, what's your take on this and where do you think people should go?
1:46.5	So I'm a bit biased because I've never really had a 9 to 5 job other than cleaning restrooms and picking up trash. you first started off at working 9 to 5.
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