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Before you go hunting down that in-house marketing unicorn (or a team of them) who excels at everything, consider hiring an external partner instead. Here’s why:
It’s a lengthy and costly process to find that in-house marketer who fits the bill. It takes even longer to develop your marketing team into an expert team.
Hiring a partner agency means gaining immediate access to a team of marketing professionals with more experience, fresh perspectives, and creativity to develop and execute an effective marketing strategy.
🚀 You can focus on developing your marketing strategy instead of juggling too many balls in the air — from execution to recruitment and onboarding.
🚀 You get support during the first few years while you build your marketing foundation. Once you’ve gained solid ground, you’re ready to hire in-house. Even then, you can still continue buying external services such as advertising, content, etc to elevate your marketing efforts.
It was never a debate, to begin with. The right answer to these options depends on which solution fits your company’s needs best at the moment. In fact, you can have both! It’s the best of both worlds to accelerate growth.⚡
Hear it from our customer who outsourced their entire marketing function to us👇
Let’s address the elephant in the room — money (it’s important, especially in times like this).
There is a true cost for each in-house marketer you hire, which also impacts your customer acquisition cost (CAC). The most commonly used formula shows that the average total cost for each full-time employee is between 1,25 and 1,4 times the employee’s base salary, depending on different variables.
Here's an example based on the average monthly salary for marketers in Finland. Assuming you have a marketing team of four people:
⚓️ 1 CMO
⚓️ 1 growth marketer
⚓️ 1 content marketer
⚓️ 1 digital advertiser
Your average monthly cost for the above in-house team is between €25,000-€30,000.
If you have limited resources with ambitious growth targets to achieve, consider outsourcing part of your marketing team. You'll gain immediate access to a team of marketing unicorns at a lower cost. 🦄
For example, with €10,000-€15,000 per month, you can hire a team of at least 3 marketers to help you strengthen your marketing function. You could build a core team of:
🚀 1 growth marketer
🚀 1 content marketer
🚀 1 digital advertiser
You could also add a designer, a data analytics consultant, a web developer, or a marketing technology consultant whenever you need them. (Btw, if this sounds interesting, you can get familiar with our pricing here!)
Hiring an agency gives you the fluidity to add resources at any time without skyrocketing costs — especially when you're building the foundation to drive growth.
Virta is the fastest-growing electric vehicle charging platform in Europe and is operating in over 30 countries. They had a goal to increase inbound lead generation and needed to rope in external help to grow.
Virta teamed up with us to bring in the expertise that was lacking as well as a fresh pair of eyes and ideas from outside of their industry.
Shortcut is a project management tool sans all the management that makes project management for software teams easy as pie.
Our partnership started when they were just a two-person team. We supported them through their growth as they grew from two to a 10+ person marketing team.
Mediamaisteri is a Finnish company that sells e-learning products. They had no clear marketing goals in mind before our cooperation, and needed help from a strategic partner with setting them.
Mediamaisteri partnered with us to set up their marketing foundation and help grow their business.
I’ve worked both as an in-house marketer and in an agency. Being in an agency meant that I’m constantly diving into different businesses and their challenges, and I get to help my customers figure out how to accelerate growth. There are always different experiments to run and different tactics to try. Working with a team of marketing experts also means that there’s always someone who can help me out if I don’t know something, and therefore, help my customers too. My marketing toolbox is definitely much wider than when I was working in-house."
Veera Hevosmaa
Growth Marketing Strategist
My expertise lies in planning and executing paid acquisition strategies for companies in both B2B and B2C sectors. I help my customers accelerate sustainable growth through strategic digital advertising. Want to achieve the same? Get in touch now!”
Pauliina Saukkonen
Paid Acquisition Specialist
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