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But serious WTF is going on in this industry? A couple of weeks ago someone came to me trying to get some SEO work done, they had a nice $5K monthly budget, I told them I'll find someone that's worth their salt and can get results. Here I am two weeks later and can't find a single sole. It's crazy cause it's an easy industry too. I've even done the preliminary research and saw the niche was like taking candy from a baby, but I can't find anyone that's serious. And then the people that turn down the work turn around a couple of days later asking for advice about their client that's paying them $500 a month... WAT? Maybe the people that I approached either are scared to let me down or maybe just don't have the confidence. So that's a WTF scratch on my head.
Around the same time a business in Bal Harbour, where we ball harder, wanted me to find a marketing person to higher on staff and I train them and do my consulting thing. No problem I thought, I threw the dragnet out and couldn't find a single soul to do the work.
I got another opportunity of someone wanting to hire a marketer that will be trained on marketing, moved to the city, and even get a nice bonus if the project pulls in some wins at the end of a year, you know our biggest concern? Finding a fucking hustler that's willing to move, get a salary, AND get a bonus ontop of it all - that is GOING TO BE TRAINED all at the same time. What the fuck world am I living in here?
So then I had another company come to me and asked me to find 3 marketers to pay $50-60K a year too, I train them onsite and then let them run wild. Imagine to my surprise where I can't find a decent person willing to hustle to get any of the positions? I've got my team scouring universities and colleges in the area - fucking blank stares.
Where the fuck is everyone? Is everyone just in line for their Obama checks? I can't even give money away to hustlers. I feel like if I gave someone $100K worth of gold bricks right now they'd ask me to take it and deposit it into their bank account for them.
Give me a fucking break - so I gotta ask where have all the hustlers gone? Cause I can't find any, through official and unofficial channels.
I got people and companies every week contacting me to find a single good SEO, ONE single person that can present themselves in a professional manner, and I can't find a single one? What's going on with this online marketing industry?
I know we are in transition from being a basement dwelling operation to putting on suits and ties, but overall I can't find a quality person that can prove results and can't get past my bullshit detector. I can ask some of the most basic questions and they are completely befuddled as if I'm speaking a different language.
Imagine hiring for a web security gig and the candidate states they are a pen-tester and got all these nonsense certifications, okay, so then you throw a softball at them. "What's the difference between a CSRF and XSS exploit?" If they look at you with a blank stare you know they aren't qualified and are just bullshitting their way through the industry - so we get rid of them.
If I ask you simple SEO questions or even ask you what some acronyms mean and you can't answer you clearly aren't the person we need. But if your degree is marketing and you can't answer marketing 101 questions I have to wonder WTF are they teaching in schools these days?
90% of my problems are offline, but even coming online it's like, where the fuck have all the hustlers gone? Do I have to get on my knees and beg you to take these companies' money or am I over-reacting?
I want to figure out what's going on in this industry on a mentality/psychological basis. Overall "web marketing" as well as drilled down "SEO" or "PPC" if you want. Are you guys seeing the same things?
Around the same time a business in Bal Harbour, where we ball harder, wanted me to find a marketing person to higher on staff and I train them and do my consulting thing. No problem I thought, I threw the dragnet out and couldn't find a single soul to do the work.
I got another opportunity of someone wanting to hire a marketer that will be trained on marketing, moved to the city, and even get a nice bonus if the project pulls in some wins at the end of a year, you know our biggest concern? Finding a fucking hustler that's willing to move, get a salary, AND get a bonus ontop of it all - that is GOING TO BE TRAINED all at the same time. What the fuck world am I living in here?
So then I had another company come to me and asked me to find 3 marketers to pay $50-60K a year too, I train them onsite and then let them run wild. Imagine to my surprise where I can't find a decent person willing to hustle to get any of the positions? I've got my team scouring universities and colleges in the area - fucking blank stares.
Where the fuck is everyone? Is everyone just in line for their Obama checks? I can't even give money away to hustlers. I feel like if I gave someone $100K worth of gold bricks right now they'd ask me to take it and deposit it into their bank account for them.
Give me a fucking break - so I gotta ask where have all the hustlers gone? Cause I can't find any, through official and unofficial channels.
I got people and companies every week contacting me to find a single good SEO, ONE single person that can present themselves in a professional manner, and I can't find a single one? What's going on with this online marketing industry?
I know we are in transition from being a basement dwelling operation to putting on suits and ties, but overall I can't find a quality person that can prove results and can't get past my bullshit detector. I can ask some of the most basic questions and they are completely befuddled as if I'm speaking a different language.
Imagine hiring for a web security gig and the candidate states they are a pen-tester and got all these nonsense certifications, okay, so then you throw a softball at them. "What's the difference between a CSRF and XSS exploit?" If they look at you with a blank stare you know they aren't qualified and are just bullshitting their way through the industry - so we get rid of them.
If I ask you simple SEO questions or even ask you what some acronyms mean and you can't answer you clearly aren't the person we need. But if your degree is marketing and you can't answer marketing 101 questions I have to wonder WTF are they teaching in schools these days?
90% of my problems are offline, but even coming online it's like, where the fuck have all the hustlers gone? Do I have to get on my knees and beg you to take these companies' money or am I over-reacting?
I want to figure out what's going on in this industry on a mentality/psychological basis. Overall "web marketing" as well as drilled down "SEO" or "PPC" if you want. Are you guys seeing the same things?