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Nifty Ways To Vet The Best Marketers Before Hiring Them #1847

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1847, we give you our top strategies for vetting marketers before hiring them. People often aren’t willing to spend the extra money on a solid vetting process, but the fact is that making a bad hire costs more. Tune in to hear how to use strategies like testing and extreme reference checking to optimize your hiring process. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: Nifty Ways To Vet The Best Marketers Before Hiring Them. [00:25] The cost of a bad hire is bigger than an a solid hiring process. [00:47] Asking candidates how they would solve specific problems and testing them. [02:05] Lessons for hiring from Who. [02:33] Using written prompts and combining past experience with hypotheticals. [03:36] Vetting clients on their social media platforms. [03:55] Using extreme reference checking. [05:09] That’s it for today! [05:10] Go to marketingschool.io/live to learn more about our upcoming live event.   Get ad-free listening plus exclusive content with Marketing School Pro. Try for free at www.marketingschool.io/pro   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   Who   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

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.8

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors, Neil Patel, and Eric

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Sue.

0:17.8

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And it's a great way to improve your low time.

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Today we are going to talk about a nifty ways to vet the best marketers before hiring

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them.

0:57.3

It's a very competitive labor market right now, right?

1:00.5

So at the same time, you have to know how you're vetting people because at the end of the

1:05.0

day, if you make a hire and it's the wrong hire, you can end up losing your shirt for

1:09.2

six to 12 months.

1:10.2

So the time you lose arguably is more expensive than the money you spent.

1:13.8

I only really have two ways.

1:15.4

You may have more than me.

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And I found that over the years, these two strategies work extremely well.

1:20.6

So the first strategy that I have is in an interview, I don't really care for the resume

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