Hiring first media buyers (local vs virtual)

I’m now making a transition to starting a team. I’ve always had VAs for banners/graphics/programming which can be easily outsourced to Upwork or other freelancing websites, but I wouldn’t really consider those as a real team, more like ad-hoc stuff.

Now having a dilemma to starting a real team with proper full-time employees, and was wondering if anyone could give some input or have thoughts around this. One of the first person I’d lik ...