If you’re responsible for making sure the digital marketing for your company is up to par, you’re going to have a lot of decisions on your hands. Especially for small businesses or sole entrepreneurs, the thought of becoming an expert in online marketing can be extremely overwhelming. Luckily, there are thousands of digital marketing agencies available to help make these problems less stressful for you. So if you’re still trying to decide whether you should use a digital marketing agency or not, here are three reasons you may want to outsource your online marketing tasks.
Your Efforts Will Always Be Consistent
When you hire someone in-house to complete a task, the knowledge they gain in that position will stay with them throughout their entire career. And while this can be great if you keep the same person at this job for the next 40 years, this can pose a problem if your employee gets a new job or needs to take some time off. For this reason, hiring an agency can ensure that your online marketing efforts are always consistent. And according to Freya Jones, a contributor to Entrepreneur.com, one of the key indicators of marketing success is how consistent your online work is.
It’s Financially More Feasible
While you may initially think that outsourcing online marketing work would be more expensive for your company, when you truly think about the costs of hiring someone in-house to do the work, you’ll quickly see that creating your own team of marketers is often much more expensive. According to Josh Steimle, a contributor to Forbes.com, a good marketing team usually should have at least two or three people. This means that, if you chose to create your own in-house team, you’d have to pay at least this amount of full-time employees, which can be much more expensive than just paying a monthly fee to an agency. While this won’t always be the case, it’s often worth it to use an agency for a smaller business.
Save Your Time For More Vital Tasks
According to Kristen Buzzaird, a contributor to Business2Community.com, what truly sets your business apart is the personal touch you’re able to bring to your products or services. And while you may be able to add some value to your online marketing as a head of the business, many companies find that their employees’ time is much better spent working on the business in a more personal capacity than digital marketing allows. Online marketing tasks can often be completed just as effectively by someone who isn’t completely personally invested in your company, so you could be saving your best work for tasks more vital to your business.
If you’re trying to decide if you should outsource your marketing or not, use the tips mentioned above to help you make this decision.
Originally posted on October 1, 2017 @ 10:53 pm