Starting a PPC marketing campaign is not really that time consuming. Except for the first week that will probably take most of the time, eventually you can effectively manage the campaign with only about one hour of working on it for every 2 to 3 days. Well, if that time frame is still long for you, then that you might think of hiring somebody who's an expert in managing marketing campaign and let them do the task for you.
But first, let us look whether you really need to hire a PPC or Pay Per Click expert. First stop, determine your motivation. Many who are into Internet Marketing Business do hire experts for three reasons: first they think they don't have the skills but want the best for their campaign; second, they believe they don't have the time for closely monitoring the process; and lastly, they simply do not have the interest and doesn't care about the expenses they may incur in hiring somebody as long as they can deliver the requirements.
If you have the third reason as basis, obviously there isn't any issue or question at all that we should discuss, then you can go and get yourself an expert to do the task for you.
But then again, if you think your reasons falls into the first two answers, then you must go and think twice about your decision. Think again, after all given a time and interest you can learn all the basics in effective campaign management easily. All you have to posses are the adequate skills that may come in handy on every situation, i.e. ready Internet access for campaign tracking, basic knowledge in copy writing and some HTML knowledge won't hurt either.
If after all the thinking and analysis, and you are still decided to hire a Pay Per Click expert for your business, then you must learn how to distinguish the true from the so called fake experts. The first and most important thing that you have to ask these "experts" is their PORTFOLIO, this is one if not the best way to judge their work and credentials. You may also want to get in touch with a couple of people that they worked with in the past for a ready reference. Because there are lots of people who claims to be an expert and you just need to be sure to get the one that can really deliver and not the one who's only after your wallet.
And again, it might also be worth your time (and even lessen the 45-days waiting for end result from newly hired expert) to think twice and hard if you even need to hire a Pay Per Click expert or you could be that expert that can produce the best campaign results.