About WBC:
Web Business Consultants (WBC) is an online marketing consulting company that targets small to medium sized businesses in the Kansas City metro area to increase brand and product awareness via Internet marketing strategies. Because Internet tactics can be confusing – search engine optimization (SEO), Web site usability testing, pay-per-click advertising – WBC recommends effective tactics and how the tactics can help in easy to understand terminology. WBC can advance the local business owner’s knowledge of Internet marketing with SEO training sessions too. WBC offers a la carte options for the business owner who has a tight budget but who needs to increase his or her marketability. The company strives to teach the business owner how to become an independent online marketer.
Each WBC employee has advanced SEO knowledge, is up to date in search engine algorithm changes and techniques, and is skilled in specific Web site marketing methods. WBC experienced specialists are: Brad Erpelding, Web site builder guru and Christine Kessler expert in online marketing practices.
About Christine Kessler:
Originally from Omaha, NE, Christine received her BA from Marquette University in Journalism and MA from Kansas University in in Journalism. Originally a photojournalism wannabe, Christine received first place in sports photography from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2003 but decided marketing was more her style. She moved to Kansas City in 2006, worked for Advanstar Communications as an Assistant Editor for the veterinarian custom projects department, worked worked for Penton Media as an Online Content Strategist for the company’s food brands. She is currently the first Internet Marketer for retail wholesale giant, The Gerson Companies in Olathe Kansas.
About Brad Erpelding:
Brad grew up in Manhattan, KS, and attended Kansas State University, where he received an AS degree in Web Development and a BA in Journalism with a specialization in electronic media in 2006. While attending Kansas State, Brad was employed as a student web developer with the Division of Continuing Education. Currently he is a Web Producer with Penton Media, where he works with implementing and using different technologies to highlight content for many websites, and works with video and social media.
