The power of Digital Paid Media is extraordinary. You can boost brand awareness, amplify your reach, enhance your targeting, maximize your content marketing, and gather incredibly finite market insights.

The power of Digital Paid Media is extraordinary. You can boost brand awareness, amplify your reach, enhance your targeting, maximize your content marketing, and gather incredibly finite market insights.
The power of Digital Paid Media is extraordinary. You can boost brand awareness, amplify your reach, enhance your targeting, maximize your content marketing, and gather incredibly finite market insights.
Digital Paid Media Professionals develop and implement digital paid media strategies in order to support a company’s digital marketing efforts.
The power of Digital Paid Media is extraordinary. You can boost brand awareness, amplify your reach, enhance your targeting, maximize your content marketing, and gather incredibly finite market insights.
Digital Paid Media Professionals develop and implement digital paid media strategies in order to support a company’s digital marketing efforts.
Lack of cultural fit is the cause of many less-than-ideal hiring situations. Sometimes a person feels like they just don’t belong at their job. Sometimes working with a team member reveals that they just aren’t a fit for the team.
There are many methods and tactics you can leverage to get to your next great career opportunity. To maximize your chances, you should leverage networking, job postings and personal branding and content strategies. Perhaps the easiest method of all is working with a recruiter. Mark Whitman presents the most overlooked reason to work with a recruiter.
Applying for a job and not getting a response is frustrating. It’s especially frustrating if it appears that you are a very good fit for the role. Mark Whitman provides some practical advice on how to draw attention to your candidacy and your specific fit for the role.
Mark Whitman discusses what’s happening in the digital first landscape.
Most people don’t fail in a job because they aren’t smart enough or don’t have the right experiences or can’t learn what it is they need to be successful. Most people fail in a job because of a cultural mismatch. Ask interviewers this one question to assess cultural fit when pursuing a new job.
In life, there are good problems and bad problems. In your career journey, a good problem to have is more than one good job offer. However, it can difficult to assess which job offer is the best for you. Mark Whitman demonstrates and explains a simple spreadsheet that will help you compare job offers and determine which is best for you.
Helping a recent college graduate start and build a successful career can be very gratifying as a manager. The first role out of college may be the most critical time in one’s career to have a great manager. In this video, Darren Fradin shares management tips on how to best help those rookies on your team launch and grow successful careers.
Misalignment between sales and marketing is a very common struggle for companies. For an organization to reach its potential, sales leaders and marketing leaders must work together effectively. This doesn’t just happen. It takes purposeful intention between the leaders. In this video, Emil Mladenov will provide insights into how these leaders can work together successfully.
SEO is constantly evolving. In 2023, SEO will likely be a more important part of a marketing plan than ever before. In this video, I discuss successful search engine optimization for 2023 with Wilson Altidor Jr.
Digital Transformation can be difficult and failure rates are quite high. In this video, Bhatt Vadlamani joins us to discuss key challenges, the biggest mistake companies make in the digital transformation journey, and provide advice for companies that are struggling with digital transformation initiatives.
Focus on performance marketing is growing as marketing moves closer to revenue. Marketers have tremendous opportunity to maximize revenue and profits through performance marketing. However, there are also plenty of obstacles on the path to effective performance marketing. In this video, we discuss the future of performance marketing with Shivan Durbal.
Product marketing has never been more important as companies look to increase revenue, improve market share, and boost brand recognition. Product marketers must capitalize on opportunities while navigating new and different challenges. In this video, we discuss the most important modern day opportunities and challenges with Stephanie Chambers.
B2B Marketing is evolving. Generating leads and traffic is still the top challenge for marketers and B2B marketers anticipate struggling to keep up with trends in 2023. In this video, CMO and B2B marketing expert, John Seeds, shares with us the top opportunities for B2B marketers.
Can we start by having you tell us about yourself?” is the most common question in interviews. This video discusses the common mistakes made in answering this question as well as giving you a recipe for success. These tips will help you with just about any job interview.
The first day at your new job is extremely important. This is the day that sets the tone of how your superiors and co-workers view you. It sets in place a trajectory that is either good or bad. This video shares the five things you should do, minimally, on your first day at a new job.
When we were kids in school, there was a straightforward path set before us. We started a class, read the books, went to the lectures, did the homework, took the exam, and got the grade necessary to move on. All along the way, there were expected places where feedback on our performance and potential were given to us.
With the right people and the right tools, data analytics turns data into information and information into actionable insights which further your organization’s goals. How do you hire qualified people who can help you make informed decisions? Ask these six questions in order to hire the right people to manage analytics for your organization:
As an analytics professional, you know there are myriad tools and methods that enable businesses to make informed decisions. But you, the analytics expert, play a crucial role in transforming raw data into information and insights, which in turn are used by your team members to make the decisions that drive the business forward.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
Our staffing and recruiting experts at TeamBuilder Search have conducted thousands of job interviews. In addition, we have conducted thousands of post-interview debriefs with hiring managers. We have learned what successful candidates do in job interview preparation.
“The Advent of social media is having a big impact on the job search today. It is critical that job seekers of all ages learn to use social media tools!” – Katie McGinty
Searching for your next role is an exciting time. Build and leverage your professional network throughout this process. LinkedIn offers great opportunities for career advancement networking. Find your next role with the help of your LinkedIn network.
Cover letters are meant to help you obtain an interview. Your cover letter separates you from other candidates. Demonstrate that you have the skills, experiences, and achievements needed to be successful in a role by providing a strong cover letter. Consider the following six tips:
All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. – Tom Peters in Fast Company
Albert Einstein once said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” An agency can be an exciting place, but many find it scary and overwhelming. It just isn’t the right fit for most people. As a result, it can be difficult to find people who can be successful in an agency setting.
As a hiring agency, we place candidates in CRO roles, inside sales roles, and every role in between. We mainly focus on placing people within emerging tech and digital transformation teams. Regardless of what your focus is, follow these six tips to hire your next sales rep.
As recruiters in the digital field, our clients speak frequently of management struggles involving the newest generation in the workplace. Millennials have a lot to offer, but generational differences require a new approach to management that is effective and ultimately successful.
Hiring the right people to fulfill your vision is essential, but assembling a great team for your organization is a difficult task. Finding the right person to fill each role is time-consuming. Something equally important—and equally tricky—is building and maintaining a healthy organizational culture.
Social strategists develop and implement social media strategy in order to support a company’s digital marketing efforts.
It’s a hiring manager’s nightmare. Someone on your team alerts you to a new review on an employer review website. You cautiously click, and it’s an all-out roast of the organization, its people, and its culture.
One great tactic for finding and landing the perfect role for you is working with a recruiter.
Julius Caesar once said, “No one is so brave that they are not disturbed by unexpected change.” Every experienced hiring manager has been through it. You get the team running like a well-oiled machine and then one of your top-performers puts in their notice. Ouch.
Steve Easterbrook once said, “When you get things right, good things happen.” It seems simple enough, but hiring your next Art Director can present significant challenge.
Sometimes, everything goes your way, your career is on fire, and everything you touch turns to gold. You are unstoppable in your career arc and everyone wants you on their team. However, sometimes, life throws us a curve ball.
If you have made a few career moves in a short period of time, then hiring managers may consider you a job hopper. You may already be aware that this label is usually not seen in a positive light.
When you’re buying a pair of pants, you have a general idea of what you want. You have a good idea of what size and style work for you, but there are other things you have to take into consideration as well.
“Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.”
― Jeffrey Fry
According to Forbes, LinkedIn is the most advantageous professional networking platform. Among its 750+ million users are recruiters and staffing professionals looking to fill open roles and jobs. In fact, according to Kinsta, 90% of recruiters use LinkedIn. Regardless of whether you’re actively seeking a new role, keeping your LinkedIn profile up-to-date benefits your career development. Here are the top ten ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile.
A friend recently said this to me. It’s a well-known adage and it holds true—you cannot fill others if your own cup is empty. Current global events—as challenging as they are—provide an opportunity to really focus on personal, professional and career development.
Some digital marketing agencies will prosper after the Coronavirus shutdown. However, some agencies will fail. Bob Knight once said, “The key is not the will to win…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
Businesses are in uncharted waters and leaders are attempting to adjust their sails. The shift to remote work presents many challenges, but this uncertain time also presents many opportunities.
Mike Krzyzewski, more commonly known as Coach K, is arguably one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. I never liked Coach K, as his teams always defeated my favorite teams. However, with time and experience comes maturity.
Most people experience at least one unplanned job loss during their career. Being displaced or losing a job can be very challenging on multiple levels. It’s typical to have feelings of disbelief, anger, grief, along with concerns about financial security.
The VP of Ecommerce is responsible for the success of (and the strategies behind) your organization’s ecommerce channel. In other words, the VP of Ecommerce is a role that is fully dedicated to managing, developing, and growing your organization’s ecommerce channel.
As author Roy T. Bennett once said, “If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Marketing changed drastically when the internet became everyone’s main source of information. Digital marketing is now cheaper, faster, more measurable and more engaging than traditional marketing.
We used to live in a world where the big ate the small. Now, we live in a world where the fast eat the slow. The velocity of business may be rapidly increasing, but the business world is facing a talent shortage. An organization’s ability to identify and hire talent will be directly proportional to their success, so talent acquisition should be a core strategic focus for today’s business leaders.
Depending on the size and structure of an organization, the UX leader may carry the title of Vice President of User Experience or Director of User Experience.
The VP of Marketing is a notoriously difficult hire for organizations to make, but remains a critically important one.
The Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) leverages knowledge of sales and marketing in order to manage (and drive growth of) an organization’s revenue streams. The Chief Revenue Officer is responsible for developing strategic partnerships and aligning all of the organization’s revenue-generating departments.
Digitalization has drastically changed the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Many organizations are now focused on accelerating their digital transformation, but the unpredictability of marketing efforts and the need to drive profits still lead to a very short tenure for most CMOs.
There are many recruiters out there. Choosing an inexperienced or non-specialized agency will not only cause frustration, but also prevent you from reaching your goals. Thus, choosing a recruiting agency to work with is a very important decision.
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) drives digital transformation and optimizes an organization’s internal processes. Though the role is a relatively novel one, the strategic leadership of the Chief Digital Officer is critically important in driving growth and connecting companies to tech-savvy consumers.
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is typically a company’s principal leader in the digital transformation process. 84% of companies fail at digital transformation, and the average tenure of a CDO is shorter than other C-Suite roles. Of course, there are many reasons for this; it isn’t easy to serve as the primary transformation leader and intermediary between other executives and functions in the creation and rollout of digital initiatives. In order to be successful as a CDO, you must have a champion mindset.
In a digitally-driven global marketplace, organizational growth isn’t achieved without deliberate, strategic effort. The role of the Chief Growth Officer (CGO) discovers, develops, and implements novel engines of growth which aim to maintain organizational success.
According to The Ladders, recruiters take six seconds to decide if a candidate is a good fit for a role. Get your recruiter’s attention with a stellar resume.
When you buy an assemble-it-yourself piece of furniture, it’s a given that you’re going to need a tool that isn’t included in the box. Whether it’s a hammer or a flathead screwdriver, you need the exact right tool to get the job done. It’s simple: nothing else is going to work.
Picture this: you go to the store to get ice cream, only to find they’re out of the flavor you want. Then you go to every other store in the neighborhood, just to end up empty-handed. You know the next city over may carry what you’re looking for. But instead, you go home empty-handed or with something that you aren’t super excited about. You encounter a similar dilemma when you try to find your ideal candidate within a defined geographic area. Avoid this frustration. Broaden your search and be open to relocating new team members. Keep these two keys in mind when you begin this process:
It can be difficult to hire the right sales leader for your high-growth emerging company. Answer one question in order to simplify this process and elevate the likelihood of hiring the right person for this important role.
As a User Experience professional there are a lot of great things about your job. The educating, evangelizing, and influencing you get to perform, in a rapidly expanding profession, can be a wonderfully rewarding challenge.
User experience is a great career. Whether we’re talking about UX Strategy (opportunity side) or UX Design (solution side), helping people experience the feelings they want to have is a fulfilling way to spend one’s time. We’ve built many UX teams and we’ve learned a lot along the way.
Oscar Wilde once said, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Additionally, Albert Einstein once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” We treat mistakes as a great source of learning. User experience is a relatively new undertaking in our clients’ typical foci of websites, apps, and Saas offerings. Thus, we learn a lot from early mistakes.
User experience isn’t a quantifiable product or outcome as much as it is a feeling. It’s the feeling a user has as a result of experiencing a product. In our clients’ case, this product is most often a website, app, or a SaaS offering. A UX professional enables the experience and feelings the user wants to have.
Mark Twain once said, “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Picture a horse race: there’s an all-out battle to the finish line, which ends mere minutes after the start of the race. Generally, competitors who leave the gate well also finish well.
Al Franken once said, “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your ‘mistakes’ for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” Digital transformation is not for the faint of heart. Mistakes and missteps are easy to come by, but many failures are also easily avoided. Here are ten mistakes to avoid in your digital transformation journey:
In boxing, we hear the phrase “punching above their weight” in reference to a fighter who hits harder than others in their weight class.
Stellar media content and strategy converts strangers into fans and fans into customers. Social media professionals require different skills depending on the role, organization, and project.
You may have heard about the two types of mindsets, Fixed and Growth, in recent years. According to the research conducted by Carol Dweck, author of the book Mindset, the two mindsets can have an impact on career performance.
Imagine that you sell toys. If your goal is to get the attention of children, you will probably focus on the toy’s bright colors, the sounds it makes, and how fun it is to play with.
Welcome to our discussion on building and staffing your digital transformation team. Let’s start by aligning on a common definition of digital transformation. Being simple people, we like to define things simply. For the purposes of this post, we will simply define digital transformation as the application of current technologies to improve relationships with organizational stakeholders.
The record player was once the foremost way of consuming music. The record was removed from its sleeve, placed in the record player, and the needle was set just right. Records were awesome in their day. But skip a few tracks into the future and they’re antiquated. Now, we search and download music with just a few clicks. We create our own playlists with ease and we carry them everywhere. Music has advanced.
Former NFL Head Coach Chuck NollM once said, “If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them, day in and day out.” Most organizations struggle with the question of how to best leverage the web in their business. In order to leverage the web, your organization’s digital marketing efforts need to be optimally staffed.
One of my hobbies is mixed martial arts. My friends and family think I’m a little crazy, but I can’t help enjoy the training, and of course, the fighting. One thing I’ve learned is that fighting a smaller, faster guy can be very frustrating. They can be hard to hit, they strike quickly, and they’re gone before you can return fire.
Owning, building, and selling a successful digital marketing company taught us a host of valuable lessons. Subsequently going through a merger and acquisition, as a result of selling a digital marketing firm, taught us even more. We’ve had the privilege of helping dozens of organizations properly build and staff their digital and integrated teams.
As an emerging company, it can be tempting to hire someone from a mature, established competitor or to recruit someone with a big title from a big company. However, recruits from mature, slow moving, well-established enterprises often do not survive at faster, more agile, more adaptable emerging technology companies.
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