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Life On A Single Person Marketing Team

Season 1, Ep. 8

Today we have Brian Zolot on the show. Brain is the first marketing hire at a young growing company - Rox Box Containers - he is the Marketing and Media Director. I think a lot of companies have a single person marketing team or a no-person marketing team where they are perhaps managing the marketing side of the company as an owner or through sales. Speaking with Brian was really insightful on how to manage marketing when you have limited resources.


From standing up and managing a website, generating blog content for SEO or managing your social media profiles, marketing covers a wide scope and in general requires labor, oftentimes lots of labor. If you are a one-person marketing team that means you really have to stay focused on what is important. Brain talks about needing to get everything done versus only working on his favorite parts of marketing and being willing to finish something, like his website or videography projects at good enough instead of chasing perfection and potentially wasting time for little gain.


Like any marketing team he has his struggles with the balance of quality content versus the quantity of content produced and because he is a marketing team of one he has to deal with technical issues on his website and advertising software and video editing suite and on and on.


We talk a bit about having to learn on the fly and approach marketing with a trial and error mentality and Brian has some great commentary on how to learn, where to find information and help and how to structure and prioritize your marketing efforts when resources are scarce. I think a lot of people will find this episode relatable. Let’s bring brian in and start the show!



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