Evaluating whether a marketing candidate will be a good fit on your team can be challenging. The concept of marketing is both vague in definition and broad in terms of what activities and strategies it encompasses.
For example, a Social Media Strategist and UX Designer have very different skills and job functions, but both are part of a marketing team. Despite these differences, you can s...
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Top 10 Interview Questions for Selecting Digital Marketing Professionals
Want to hire a top digital marketing professional? Ask them these questions during the interview.
Even though many employers know they need to hire a digital marketer, they aren’t sure how to differentiate a top performer in an interview.Use these digital marketing interview questions as a starting point and then tailor them to your specific needs and company.
Asking the right questions is...
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3 High-Growth Marketing Roles to Elevate Your Business in 2018
In the past, marketing was viewed as something that happens only after a product or service was created. At the time, this meant using either billboards or print media to advertise your product.
Today, marketing is less about advertising and more about engaging with your customer online, creating meaningful relationships, and building your brand’s presence.
This trend is evident in the listing o...
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What to Look for When Hiring a Top Freelance Social Media Marketer
As you review your marketing budget and plan throughout the year, you may realize that you have a lot of ideas for how to grow and increase revenue this year, but not enough time or resources to make it happen with your current marketing department.
Instead of pushing your ideas off until next year or waiting until you have the money to hire more full-time marketing professionals, you may be able ...
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How Much Should I Spend on Hiring an App Developer?
The demand for quality apps and app developers is increasing. Every day, millions of people use apps to check the weather, book a ride or even reserve a table at a restaurant.
In fact, mobile applications usage grew by 58% in 2015, and the average US customers download on average of 8.8 iOS and Android apps in a month. This increase of app usage has encouraged many companies to build their own app...
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5 Tips for Hiring a Digital Marketing Leader
Hiring a digital marketing leader can be a very difficult task. More companies are starting to dedicate their resources to inbound marketing which means a greater demand for leaders with digital marketing experience.
Unfortunately, there seems to be more demand than supply right now, and if you're not strategic about your search, it could take months to find the perfect person or you could end up ...
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4 Ways You’re Unintentionally Driving Away Marketing Candidates
When it comes to recruiting and hiring top marketing talent, many companies are clueless about why candidates are turning down their offers or falling off during the hiring process. Instead of making changes to how their company attracts top talent or evaluating their recruiting process, companies chalk it up to a tough candidate market and keep doing what they’ve always done to recruit marketing ...
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Should You Hire a Digital Marketer on a Full-Time or Temp Basis?
As an employer, you may have noticed that today’s workplace is changing, especially when hiring a digital marketer. Many digital marketing professionals are choosing to work on a temp basis. As a result, digital marketers are among the most in-demand freelancers. Many digital marketers prefer the stability of full-time and traditional work hours.
If you’re unsure whether to hire a digital ...
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5 Ways to Grow Your Marketing Agency
Running a marketing agency requires constant attention, clarity, and planning, and without these elements, you risk becoming complacent and losing focus. If you’re seeing your marketing agency’s growth become stagnant or the number of new clients starting to dwindle, it may be an effect of larger, underlying problems. Discover 5 changes you can make in order to increase your agency’s growth.
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What Is Talent On the Spot?
Naviga's Talent On the Spot service connects companies with top marketing and executive talent on a contract and temp-to-perm basis. Learn more about how our commitment, thoroughness, and speed in which we find contract talent helps us stand out from other contract staffing firms.
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Does Your Company Need a Marketing Technologist?
Marketing is becoming increasingly dependent on technology. In 2012, the research firm Gartner predicted that a company’s chief marketing officer would be spending more on technology than its chief information officer by 2017. As marketing budgets continue to grow faster than many IT budgets, this prediction is well on its way to becoming true.
With this increased emphasis on marketing technology,...
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3 Keys to Hiring a Successful Chief Marketing Officer
Companies are starting to see the value in hiring senior marketing leadership to help increase the success and growth of their businesses. In fact, 71% of Fortune 500 companies currently have a Chief Marketing Officer(CMO).
The CMO role has become increasingly impactful and there can be some confusion about how the role is defined, what qualities the candidate needs to have, and how to...
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5 Reasons You Should Hire a Copywriter for Your Small Business
We all know that when it comes to building an engaged audience and attracting new visitors to your website, content is king. However, as more and more professionals and companies create online content and blogs, it becomes even harder to compete.
The key to breaking through this noise is not always creating more content, it’s creating better quality content. But if you’re a small business...
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3 Challenging Marketing Positions to Fill in 2016
The traditional roles of marketers are broadening and changing every day as technology plays a bigger part in how consumers access content and buy products. And not only are traditional roles changing, but new positions are also being added to marketing departments to meet new and existing needs.
Many of these new roles are highly technical positions that require professionals with very specific ...
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How To Hire a Top Marketing Manager
Marketing has changed dramatically over the last ten years and it has impacted the number of qualified candidates available for marketing leadership roles.
Employers are having a difficult time trying to hire a marketing manager who has stayed on top of their game when it comes to digital and social marketing.
In fact, this increasing need to hire top marketing managers has earned the...
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Looking for a Freelance Marketer? You Need to Hire a Specialist
For growing businesses and entrepreneurs, hiring even just one new freelance marketer can directly increase visibility and gain the new customers they need to keep their business thriving. And while many business owners realize they need to hire a freelance marketer, many don’t know where to get started or who to hire.
Since there are hundreds of different roles and positions that fall under t...
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3 Things to Know Before Hiring A Temp For Your Marketing Needs
Many companies realize the benefits of hiring temp staff to work on specific organizational tasks and projects. In fact, in the next 12 to 18 months, the number of companies made up of a 50/50 mix of permanent and temps is expected to increase from 1% to 30%, according to “The Future of Digital Marketing” report by Mondo.
Hiring temps can be a great addition to your company, but there are ...
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It’s a Candidates’ Market! How More Job Openings Impact Employers’ Recruiting Efforts
The economy is finally picking up and as businesses are starting to expand, they’re also starting to hire more employees. According to the Pew Research Center, since the recession’s end, fewer Americans are unemployed and there are more job openings. This is good news for skilled workers. The job market has shifted in their favor, and they are taking advantage of the high demand for top talent. Bu...
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