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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Hire Incredible Designers for Cheap | Ep. #1350

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1350, we talk about how you can hire incredible designers for cheap! We touch on pointers like reaching out to designers in countries with a lower cost of living, what platforms to use, and all the different ways you can vet one to see if they are a good match! Get it all right here! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: How You Can Hire Incredible Designers for Cheap.[00:33] How to reach out and confirm designers on Dribble or Behance.[01:08] Finding permanent designers in areas where the currency is weaker than the US.[01:49] Using filters to vet designers on Upwork.[02:40] The value of paying your regular designer per project vs per hour for quality control.[03:49] A pro tip: use Dribbble’s talent program to find new designers you didn’t know before.[03:58] Testing designers with small initial projects using clear descriptions.[04:39] The more similar a designer’s past work to your brief, the better they will do.[04:55] That’s it for today![04:57] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Dribbble Behance Instagram 99designs Upwork 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

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.5

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your

0:14.2

instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:18.6

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

0:24.0

If you want to rank higher on Google,

0:25.9

you got to look at your paid speed time.

0:28.5

The faster your website loads, the better off you are.

0:31.3

With Google's core vital update,

0:33.0

that makes it super, super important

0:34.8

to optimize your site for low time.

0:37.6

And one easy way to do it is use the host

0:40.0

that Eric and I use, Dreamhost.

0:42.0

So just go to Dream Host or Google it.

0:44.8

Find it, check it out, and it's a great way

0:47.0

to improve your low time.

0:50.4

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue. And I'm Neil Patel.

0:55.6

And today we're going to talk about how you can hire incredible designers for cheap.

1:01.1

So when you need your design work done where do you go? I really like looking at

1:06.1

portfolios on dribble that's d r i b b b b b b b b b k l e dot com those are the two portfolio sites I like to start with and yeah that's where I go initially and I just reach out to the people I say hey

1:20.0

you know really like your work and then we'll have a conversation and be like what are your prices and then go from there and what I'll also do too is once I see a couple portfolios I like I'll also follow them on Instagram just to see like what else they're posting and if I really like their aesthetic because the thing

1:33.4

what designers is you're not going to change your aesthetic so you either like it or you

1:36.7

don't it's very subjective. Yeah the other thing that I like doing too is when I'm

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