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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Find the Best Young Marketing Talent | Ep. #765

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In episode #765, Eric and Neil discuss how to find the best marketing talent. Tune in to hear how you can find young, motivated workers. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How to Find the Best Young Marketing Talent [00:37] Eric’s interns have always been great. [01:06] Singlegrain often uses Angellist to find the best people. [01:31] It is important to have a hiring process. [01:58] You can find young talent via blogging and social sites, but the best way to find great talent is to have interns. [02:20] Neil’s company looks for interns who really want a career in marketing. [02:30] They train them to grow with the company. [02:52] When you get them young, they aren’t jaded. [03:30] Be a “T-Shaped” marketer. [04:18] If you want people who are “up to speed”, look for people who did internships at other marketing agencies. [04:42] Most agencies won’t hire their interns. [05:08] Pay your interns! [05:18] By paying interns, you set a good precedent. [05:30] That’s it for today! [05:34] Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway! 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

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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.

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site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream

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great way to improve your low time. Welcome to another episode of marketing school.

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I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

0:57.0

And today we are going to talk about how to find the best young marketing talent.

1:02.0

So I'll go first. I mean mean I've been using this for a very long time and I think this is the same thing for Neil too our young talent our intern talent is some of the best that we've gotten and they've they've stayed with us and they just keep getting better and better.

1:14.0

And I like, you know, when you start out young, you have nothing but the future to look forward to.

1:19.2

You have nothing to really look back upon, right?

1:20.7

So you're very open-minded, you're like, your growth rates are a lot higher just because you have so much to learn, right? So you're very open-minded, you're like, your growth rates are a lot higher just

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because you have so much to learn, right? And I look at, you know, myself as an individual or people, as you know, I look at their growth rates, right? I kind of, kind of like, I like to evaluate them as like a business I guess so when we use

1:34.5

angelists and sometimes it might be a little more expensive but you can just get

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contractors as well but using angelists men I got a copywriter that used to work for Ramit safety and then he came aboard here and then now he's going on to do you know other big things and I knew he was a great talent and you know to be frank I mean his starting salary was around 30 grand a year and I just knew he was a star and so

1:54.8

angelless I mean that's where you go find them but also at the same time I can easily just you know we can

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