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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Pros and Cons of Hiring In-house vs Agency vs Consultant | Ep. #61

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #61 Neil and Eric talk about the differences between hiring in-house, hiring consultants and hiring agencies. Listen as they highlight the pros and cons, share what works for their own businesses, and the stunning advantages of outsourcing. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:29 – Today’s Topic: The Pros and Cons of Hiring In-house Versus Agency Versus Consultant 00:42 – Neil never hires agencies—only specific consultants 01:08 – Eric has an agency but would not hire an agency 01:45 – Eric would go to Angel List, Indeed or Forced Hiring 02:08 – How the Forced Hiring tactic works 02:10 – Using LinkedIn 02:52 – The easy way is to just look for an agency 02:58 – Agencies do not fully understand your product 03:18 – Be mindful of relationship dynamics 03:26 – Think about why you want to hire 03:34 – In-house for managing the whole process 03:42 – Freelancer for a specific task 03:48 – Consultant for helping in strategy 04:10 – It depends on the task you want to get done 05:00 – Optimize costs and results 05:40 – Working with the big ones means paying for the brand name 06:35 – Consider your company’s culture—don’t hire solely for the results 07:16 – End of today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Agencies bring convenience, but significant expense as well. Hiring for what you need done and what fits your culture. Don’t look at just the costs; look at the results as well. Resources Mentioned: Angel List and Indeed – Where Eric would search for consultants Forced Hiring – A tactic which Eric wrote a blog about LinkedIn – A social media platform where you can generate leads 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

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

0:14.5

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

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

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I'm your host Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about when companies should hire a consultant versus one day should hire in-house versus one

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they should get an agency this is a great one. I think we're going to have a lot to talk

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about here. Neil, when you kick things off.

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I never really hire agencies.

1:14.4

I only hire specific consultants to do specific tasks.

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I found it to be way cheaper.

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I get the work done much faster, and the quality is typically way better than if I hired

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an agency who's just going to outsource most of stuff to like a newbie that they hired from

1:31.4

college or Craigslist and they're hired from college or Craigslist

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