Why upskilling your in-house marketing person might be the smartest move you make this year

So, you’ve got someone doing your marketing part-time.

Maybe it’s your admin assistant.
Maybe it’s your office manager.
Maybe it’s your niece who’s “good on Instagram.”

They’re doing their best with what they’ve got—but you can tell something’s not quite landing. The socials look okay. The emails are going out. But the strategy? The results? The confidence? Kinda… wobbly.

Here’s the good news:
They don’t need replacing.
They just need upskilling.

🚀 Why Upskilling Beats Outsourcing

Hiring an agency or a freelancer can be great—but it can also be expensive, inconsistent, or impersonal.

Upskilling your internal team means:
✅ They already know your business
✅ They’re invested in your success
✅ They’re there every day and can react quickly
✅ You don’t need to hand over full control or big budgets

All they need is the right training, structure, and confidence to do it well.

🔧 What I Teach (aka: What They Actually Need to Know)

This isn’t fluffy, one-size-fits-no-one training. It’s practical, real-world guidance based on what actually works for small businesses and regional brands.

Here’s what we cover:

💡 Marketing foundations – so they understand what we’re even trying to achieve
🧭 Planning & prioritising – no more “post and hope” content
📱 Content creation tips & tools – from captions to Canva
📈 How to measure what’s working – so you’re not wasting time
🧰 Time-saving systems – so marketing doesn’t take over their whole job
🧠 Confidence building – because knowing they’re doing it right is half the battle

🙋 Who It’s For

This training is perfect for:

  • Small teams with no full-time marketer

  • Admins or office staff managing marketing on the side

  • Family businesses doing everything in-house

  • Marketing grads who need some real-world grounding

  • Business owners who want to hand it off—but not lose visibility

🧠 The Outcome

After our sessions, your team member will:
✔️ Know how to plan and run basic campaigns
✔️ Understand your audience and message
✔️ Feel confident creating content and emails
✔️ Know what to track and how to improve
✔️ Actually enjoy marketing (yes, really)

💬 Final Word

You don’t need a huge team or a big agency to get good marketing done.
You just need someone in-house… who knows what they’re doing.

Let’s get them there.

📩 Want to chat about tailored training for your team? Get in touch here.
Or read more about Team Training & Upskilling here.

Cristy Houghton

Cristy's unique career has taken her from country NSW to the city lights of Clarendon Street South Melbourne and back again. With an early career in radio as a copywriter and creative strategist, she is now a Jill of all trades as a graphic designer, website builder, blog writer, video editor, social media manager, marketing strategist and more. 

In fact, give her any task and this chick will figure out how to do it! Go on, we dare you!

No, really, we DARE you!!

Cristy has won two Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) for Best Ad and Best Sales Promotion, and even has an 'Employee of the Year' certificate with her name on it.

Cristy and her husband James have traveled extensively through Russia, China and South East Asia, and have two fur-babies, Sooty (cat) and Panda (puppy). Cristy loves drinking coffee, meeting people to drink coffee, coffee tasting and coffee flavoured cocktails. She also enjoys road trips, TED Talks and watching cat videos on youtube.

http://www.embarketing.com.au
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