Remote Latinos helped Trade Up Marketing, a digital marketing agency serving U.S. home service businesses, hire two full-time specialists in about two weeks, with a third lined up. Remote Latinos ran interviews, personality tests, work qualification checks, and English assessments, saving dozens of hours of sourcing. Chief creative officer Jordan Long rated the experience 9.5 out of 10.
Remote Latinos is a talent platform that connects growing companies across the United States, Canada, and Mexico with pre-vetted remote professionals, virtual assistants, and dedicated teams based in Latin America.
Trade Up Marketing is a digital marketing agency that serves home service businesses across the United States. Chief creative officer Jordan Long and the agency team needed skilled people who could work in the same time zone as the agency but bring skill sets they could not easily find inside the U.S. Before Remote Latinos, they had gone through three different companies to find that kind of talent, and none had come close to what they were after.
How can a digital marketing agency hire specialized video, web, and SEO talent in its own time zone after other providers fell short?
Trade Up needed specialists, not generalists: a video editor, a web developer, and an SEO specialist. The team had to work in the same time zone as the agency, and three previous companies had failed to deliver the caliber of talent required. The goal was to fill these roles quickly with people who matched the agency's standards.
A detailed, multi-step screening process that delivered specialized creative and technical talent in the agency's time zone.
Trade Up defined three specialized roles, a video editor, a web developer, and an SEO specialist, with a firm requirement that each person work in the same time zone as the agency. After three providers had fallen short, the bar for talent quality was high.
Remote Latinos ran a detailed process that included interviews, personality tests, work qualifications, and English proficiency checks in both speaking and writing, which Jordan called second to none. Trade Up received about 12 applications for the video editor position and a similar batch for the web developer and SEO roles.
Communication ran through Slack and stayed sharp, with the Remote Latinos team leading the process and gathering what it needed to do the job well. Jordan plans to come back for another batch of hires within the next 6 to 12 months.
The agency filled specialized roles in video editing, web development, and SEO. Two full-time specialists were hired in about two weeks and a third was lined up, all able to work in the same time zone as the agency.
The process included interviews, personality tests, work qualification checks, and English proficiency assessments in both speaking and writing. Jordan Long called this process second to none, and the agency received about 12 applications for the video editor role alone.
Trade Up had gone through three different companies before, and Jordan said none came close to what Remote Latinos delivered. Jordan rated the experience 9.5 out of 10 and plans to return for another batch of hires within 6 to 12 months.
Yes. Most of Latin America shares or closely overlaps U.S. time zones, which is why Trade Up could meet its requirement that every specialist work in the same time zone as the agency and collaborate in real time.
"We've gone through three different companies before, and they don't even come close to what Remote Latinos gave us."
