So you think You’re a Web Marketer
Pet peeve: You say you’re a web marketer but their are no search results on your name. You’re not on social networks and are unfamiliar with the techniques that you recommend to your clients.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
AMEN!!!!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Absolutely amen to that.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Couldn’t agree more. Once had a phenomenal argument with a PR guy who wanted to manage the social marketing campaign for the company I worked at. He didn’t blog himself, barely read blogs (only the most popular ones) and wrote in a “smarter than thou” way. Yet he thought he was a much better expert on blogger than I was - despite my 3 years of blogging and networking, and a PR 5 blog.
And the worst thing was, my company backed him because he cost over $120/hour and so must know more. Made me absolutely furious and is one of the reasons I quit.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I hear you on that, but with all the psydonyms people use online its difficult to judge just based on a first name who the person is. For example, I post comments typically under the name JB, rather than my actual name, Jonathan B… I’m online blogging (albeit, not near as much as I should to consider myself a “true” blogger) and participating in blogs, but finding me may be a little difficult. Granted, I DO NOT consider myself a Web marketer, so my example is flawed to begin with.
That said, there is a lot to be said about companies not drinking its own kool-aid. For example, it’s important for an SEO company to be ranked under the search terms it believes describes the company. It’s like the age old adage: “If you’re going to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk.”