The Importance of Hiring a Web Marketing Consultant
Offline and online marketing are two complete different types of advertising methods, yet both attempt to achieve the same goals -sell a product or service. In this case, one could distinguish one to be for the old generation and the other for today’s generation.
In just a gap of three or even two years, ones perspective of technology can differ as much as oil and water, for the older generation will have felt that the tech and web world was overrated, while the following one grew up playing complex online games using, for many hard to understand, software like Teamspeak, wall hacks and more. It is that generation, where the Web Marketing Consultant is born into.
In the online marketing world, understanding technology is a requirement, unlike offline marketing which has been around for decades and required a simple printing company and some capital.
In web marketing the advertising spiel becomes more complex. Internet marketing, in general, is a broad and complicated entity, usually difficult for the technology unwise (or what we call noob) to fully comprehend at first. The person in charge of the advertising has to understand many new terms, synonyms and web slang’s that don’t (and probably won’t ever) exist in physical dictionaries. The most important and also common used terms on the web are: conversion rate, bounce rate, PageRank (PR), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), backlinks and many more. These are just one of the many reasons it is important to hire a web marketing consultant with prior experience.
Once knowing what to expect, the first thing a business owner should do before approaching online marketing, is find a web consultant he/she can trust. The consultant must have had several years of web programming experience and some business sense to be eligible. Most importantly, the web consultant has to know every useful website on the web. Many of them being page rank and backlink checking websites, competitor analysis websites and other marketing tool websites. It is important for the web marketing consultant to be up-to-date with new marketing trends. Since there are several billion websites at this point, many not even indexed by the search engines, every internet guru will have their own sources of information or secrets.
Finally, the internet marketing consultant has to have passion for the web. Being an active Facebook user, tweeter and blogger is one sign of a successful and passionate online marketer behavior. Even a geek, knowing everything about MMORPG’s (Online Gaming) and knowledge of how to download movies and software for free is in this case a positive attribute and shows a lot of potential of being a successful web consultant.
The world wide web is a different space and may be difficult for many make use of. Luckily, there are many that grew up with it and are still unaware of the potential possibilities to successfully market a business.