Internet Virtual Assistant – 28 Tasks To Outsource

by Karen Sielski

Teachers Can Be Ideal Article Marketers

The skills required for one very large part of Internet marketing is already an important part of the arsenal of professors. Many beginners in online marketing are surprised by the amount of writing that is necessary to succeed. Improving traffic and search engine rankings for a business website is partially dependent upon successful article marketing. Some Internet marketers become discouraged by the quantity of writing that is required. However, college professors and other teachers are not likely to be disheartened by a thoughtful regimen that has become part of their everday routine.

University teachers spend a great deal of time writing. College professors, for example, have built their careers by publishing articles or lengthy monographs about their specialties. Any academic who is not successful in contributing to the knowledge in her or his field through publication, is not going to present a serious bid for tenure at most institutions of higher learning.

Furthermore, all teachers serve as mentors for their students in the development of their writing skills, so teachers become good editors as well. As a tenured college professor of any years, I could not even estimate the number of hours I have spent with seemingly good students recommending different essay structure options or brainstorming with them to find clearer ways to express their ideas.

Granted, most writing for the Internet is very different from academic writing or writing for the classroom. A 2000 word Internet article is considered huge by most standards, whereas in academic writing it would be considered a brief introduction. Still, academics have learned to synthesize material succinctly in their presentations at conferences, in their abstracts to their articles and in their lectures to students. They have also learned to be very specific, which is what most Internet writing entails, since the online world is really a collection of very narrow niches.

Some Internet marketers do all of their own writing until they have grown their business to the point that they can begin to hire employees. For these people writing skills are invaluable, so former professors have a genuine advantage in this aspect of the business.

Other Internet entrepreneurs choose to outsource much of their article writing, using free-lancers. They might use an article writing service. However the quality of these services vary widely. Hence, editorial skills are an absolute requirement. That is one of the skills that college teachers have honed very well while poring over assignments turned in by students and while polishing their own articles and books.

All the writing that comes from starting a new ecommerce business is confounding to most people, it is a task to which former teachers bring a great deal of confidence and talent. Indeed, some professors may wish to focus their Internet marketing to writing for other online marketers.