Ecommerce Consulting

Announcement:  This week I paid a small fortune for the domain EcommerceConsulting.com.  Frankly, it amazes me that anyone with a few bucks can still buy a Top 20 consulting domain, but whatever.  As Jason Davis knows, I have purchased hundreds of premium domains because I spend my entire life on the phone yakking with the world's greatest ecommerce executives.

I'm not bragging -- any more than the ballboy at Wimbledon must brag about what he does.  I am blessed to have incredible ecommerce clients on one side of the net, and the world's best ecommerce candidates on the other.  And for the past few years, all I have done is arrange and facilitate the play on the court.  I'm just a fan.

Yet I have picked up a few internet marketing tricks in the process.  After all, getting SEO advice from my candidates is like having Ted Williams bat cleanup on the company softball team.  If they tell me to buy such-and-such a domain, who am I to argue?  So ...

Here's why I bought EcommerceConsulting.com:

1.)  Most obviously, I deal with many very talented ecommerce executives -- and my network is nationwide.  Some of these execs are between jobs and need a way to earn income while they look for full-time work.  I wanted a way to get consulting projects for them as a service and a favor.  And since my executives have no overhead yet possess the same skills one might find at a top-tier ecommerce consultancy, my clients are going to get a great deal.  And who knows?  Perhaps they'll end up hiring my ecommerce consultant full-time.  Which leads me to my second point ...

2.)  In December, I got a talented ecommerce executive a job offer for $150/K base + bonus + options.  He turned it down because he found out the same week that his wife was pregnant with their first child and they did not want to relocate to a new city.  However, he turned around and accepted an ecommerce consulting project from the client -- who immediately withdrew their search for a full-time executive.  I wasn't mad.  But I do need to address the possibility of that happening in the future.

3.)  According to KeywordDiscovery, the term "ecommerce consulting" gets 45,032 search inquiries a year.  That is seven times more than "management recruiter" (which I own) and two times more than  "search engine experts" (which I also own).  The ecommerce consulting business is a billion dollar industry -- and Google Adwords for that phrase are going for 4 bucks a click.  Obviously, there's an opportunity there.

Bottom Line:  I own EcommerceRecruiting.com and I have thousands of pre-screened ecommerce executives in my nationwide database -- many of whom are rock stars and might want to offer their expertise to my clients on an affordable interim or project basis.

If you'd like to know more about my new ecommerce consulting service (as either a client or a candidate), please send me an email.  Or call (678) 795-0900.

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Comments

[Cliff Barney]

I've been Googling the phrase 'ecommerce consulting' for the past week, exploring the state of the industry for executive ecommerce consultants. It's an awesome domain. In fact, I spoke with a guy at Trinity Insight yesterday - they come up number one in Google for the phrase. But I'll bet you could bump them with your new domain.

[Charlie Nichols]

Interesting strategy. Will you be measuring traffic from that link? Or perhaps creating a landing page to capture interest immediately... rather than showing your main blog?

Just a thought! 8-)

Charlie

[Billy]

I really like the arbitrage strategy, Harry. It helps build upon your ecommerce / internet marketing domain expertise and positions you as the "go to" guy in the space. Plus, it could open a completely new revenue stream. Wish I'd thought of it!