[jyu]

If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work has has (and thus your compensation) can be orders of magnitude higher than programmers.

[Gustomaximus]

I think you'll find salaries are about the same. Without going into executive level management, a senior digital marketer will earn around $70k to $160k in western markets in my experience.

[coingig]

Building an app like what I want would cost a lot, maybe 10-20k which is a lot of money go invest for me. I will either build the app myself or hire a good freelancer.