Should You Hire an Outsourced Marketing Team?

Hot take: Agencies suck and working with them sucks more.

Yet, with budget constraints, hiring freezes, and aggressive growth goals, marketing leaders and organizations trying to scale often have no alternative.

How can you avoid adding permanent headcount, but continue to move toward your targets?

👉 Hire an agency.

How can you push on specific marketing channels without taking 6+ months to hire and another 6+ to start gaining traction?

👉 Hire an agency.

This is why marketing agencies exist, and this is why companies continue to leverage external help – even if they have a strong in-house team. The reality is that hiring an external agency feels like progress when you’re stagnating.

Most of the time that progress is an illusion.

Why?


I know. I’ve worked for them and I’ve hired them in almost every company I’ve worked at in my 11+ years in marketing.

So why am I starting an a̶g̶e̶n̶c̶y̶ outsourced marketing team?

Hear me out.

An outsourced marketing team is an enhancement to your current org. It slots into whatever channel you’re lagging behind in, whichever team has had a sudden exodus of talent, whatever campaign you need more hands on deck for.

An outsourced team you can turn on and ramp up, or scale down and turn off.

❌ No HR.
❌ No probation period.
❌ No waiting for senior experts
to hopefully take you up on your basic salary range and free fresh fruit promises.

With an outsourced marketing team you can:
✅ Get started with experts
within 24 hours of first contact.
✅ Work on a monthly basis
– no annual contracts.
✅ Work toward growth goals immediately
and get full roadmaps and strategies within the first weeks – not months.

The reality (no matter how much it sucks) is:
High growth teams need a̶g̶e̶n̶c̶y̶ outsourced marketing help occasionally.

So, how is The Organic Growth Team different?

1️⃣ We only take on challenging projects from VC and PE-backed high growth companies
👉 We look for projects where we can have the most impact – fast
👉 We work with in-house teams who are hungry and have aggressive growth goals
👉 We are recommended by some of the most well known startups and VC firms in tech.  

2️⃣ We only work with top practitioners.
👉 Our team is made up of only senior practitioners.
👉 Our network is deep, and our team members are vetted. Think ex-”head of” top tech marketing teams.

3️⃣ We don’t overextend and we don’t overpromise.
👉 We take a lot of meetings and only accept clients who we can drive positive ROI for.

Where our outsourced marketing team has the most impact:

  1. VC or PE-backed B2C or B2B tech scale-ups (series B or later stage).
  2. Companies who know their product market fit, have their first marketing hires, and are ready to scale marketing efforts.
  3. Marketing teams that want to activate or get more out of organic growth channels.
  4. Marketing teams that need help optimizing paid marketing initiatives.
  5. Marketing teams that need to enable their team with improved workflows, CMS setup & build outs, reporting, etc.

FYI, I firmly want you to build an effective in-house marketing team. In the long run, this is the best way to build traction.

That being said, if you’re in growth-mode, you can’t afford to wait for HR to vet 100+ candidates, workshop them, and sit out their notice period.

You need to start scaling today.

You need an outsourced team of experts to set a solid and scalable foundation for growth – that your perfect in-house team can easily take over and run with.

If this way of thinking resonates, reach out → getgrowing@organicgrowthteam.com we have capacity for one additional scale-up looking to achieve aggressive growth goals.

Agencies suck. An outsourced growth team you can turn on or off as needed? That’s how high-growth teams hack their growth goals.

Ready to grow with us?