How to Find Talent in Unexpected Places with Chris Martinez – Episode 14
About This Episode:
In this episode Chris Martinez from DUDE agency joins us to share how he’s found affordable agency talent in an unconventional place. We talk about the keys to successfully building an offshore team, details on DUDE’s hiring process that took them from 5 to 30 employees in less than a year and keys to running a successful white label agency.
About Chris Martinez:
Chris Martinez is the CEO and Co-founder of DUDE which partners with digital agencies to provide them the people and processes to help them scale profitably. He’s also the author of Hacking Mexico.
Chris owned a digital agency for over 6 years and in 2013 moved all of his web design and development to Tijuana Mexico and it was a total game-changer for his agency.
He quickly learned that Tijuana gives agencies all the benefits of outsourcing and none of the downsides.
In 2017, Chris launched DUDE and is now providing the perfect outsourcing solution for digital agencies.
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Marcel Petitpas
CEO & Co-Founder
Based in Moncton, NB Canada Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto. He's on a mission to build the worlds best workplace at Parakeeto. He believes work should give us more energy and inspiration to serve our families and communities, not drain us of our will to live. He started Parakeeto so he could help agencies create and predictable and stable environment, so they can produce their best work and live a more balanced life.
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