7 Questions to Make Sure Your Next Marketing Hire is a Slam Dunk | Ep. #963

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In episode #963, we count out the 7 questions you need to ask a potential marketing hire. See which questions we think will guarantee that your next hire is a slam dunk. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress here! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: 7 Questions to Make Sure Your Next Marketing Hire is a Slam Dunk [00:36] 1: How do you get better at marketing? [00:41] What are you reading to enhance your skills and understanding of the field? [00:52] Marketing is ever-evolving, so you have to read blogs to stay up-to-date. [01:20] 2: What would you change? [01:30] If they can’t tell you how they would improve your business, how will they be as a hire? [02:07] 3: Have them do a paid trial. [02:55] 4: What do you do when an experiment fails? [03:06] A great way to understand their thought process. [03:30] 5: If you had $10 Million, in what would you invest? [03:50] A great way to gain insight into the potential hire. [04:05] Also a way to gauge how humble or arrogant they are. [04:11] 6: What do you think our competitors are doing that we are not, but should be? [04:56] 7: What is your most impressive marketing accomplishment? [05:00] This will give insight into how they think and what their skills are. [05:37] That’s all for today! [06:06] We hit our goal of 1 Million downloads! So, we will be throwing a free event in Los Angeles this June. Check out this website if you would like to attend. Remember: we are capping the event at 500 people, so sign up now, if you’re interested! 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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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0:49.3	great way to improve your load time. Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eritzu.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we're going to give you seven questions
0:59.0	to make sure your next marketing hire is a slam dunk.
1:03.9	So question number one that I like to ask all marketing hires
1:07.5	is how do you get better at marketing?
1:09.4	More specifically, what do you read? And why do you ask that question? Let's go into why as well. Yeah, why for each one's good too. So the reason I ask that is because if you're not growing as a marketer, marketing is changing so much, you're going to be dying like quickly like if you say
1:24.8	you don't read marketing blogs that's already a red flag right and if you say you know I
1:28.8	don't I like to just learn by doing that's certainly fine like you should definitely learn by doing but if you're not reading from other people not thinking you you can listen to our podcast if you want but sure we're not thinking you have to but learning from other people like I listened to a ton of podcasts a week and I learned so much
1:43.4	from other people you're going to fall behind because people are just iterating so quickly.
1:47.7	Question number two, what would you change?
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