How to Find a Great Consultant | Ep. #31

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #31 Eric and Neil teach you how to find a great consultant. They’ll discuss different sites and sources to find contracted workers and how you can find people with high-quality work for a low price. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:22 – How you can find a great consultant. 00:40 – Where can you find them? 00:54 – ProBlogger, AngelList, Hired.com, Crew.co 01:03 – You need a great process. 01:45 – Go to Upwork.com. 02:00 – Look for people related to the task you need done, and look over their reviews and portfolio. 02:25 – Be specific with what you need done. 02:45 – You will find people who are creative and are a good fit. 03:15 – Find out quickly who’s qualified. 03:30 – One of Eric and Neil’s main developers is a contracted worker. 04:36 – Another contracted worker from Growth Everywhere 05:05 – Use LinkedIn and search for people that work at your competition. 06:00 – Little to no risk. 06:24 – Force Hiring, from The Sale Acceleration Formula 07:40 – Reach out to people on LinkedIn. 08:10 – Don’t hire people from major cities. 09:15 – Get work done for a lot cheaper. 09:30 – Subscribe to our podcast learn more! 3 Key Points: Use hiring sites to find qualified workers. Create a process that will help you identify a good fit. Hire people in small cities, where the cost of living is lower. Resources Mentioned: ProBlogger, AngelList, Hired.com, Crew.co, Upwork.com, Growth Everywhere, and LinkedIn – Reliable sites that will help you find great workers The Sale Acceleration Formula – A sales book that teaches about Force Hiring 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.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to Rank hire on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
0:34.4	Google's core vital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
0:38.5	site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream
0:44.5	host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a great way
0:49.7	to improve your low time. Welcome to another edition of Marketing School.
0:55.0	I'm your host Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:58.0	And today we're going to be talking about how you can find a great consultant.
1:02.0	So finding a great consultant is really important
1:04.6	especially in the early days when you don't have the money to hire somebody
1:07.8	full-time but you need the help. So the question is where do you go find
1:11.9	these great consultants and for me going to
1:14.4	sites such as pro blogger or going to angelless so that's angel.co and even going
1:20.1	to sites like hired.com to find great developers or sales people or even
1:24.4	using crew.co to find great developers. That's a great place to start. You
1:29.1	want to use these job boards and then the most important thing when you go
1:31.6	about looking for these consultants is making sure that you have a great process button down.
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