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CAREERS IN MARKETING ,[object Object]
My Job is to get you to buy stuff
AGENDA 101
MARKETING 101 A company makes stuff that you buy
IN THAT COMPANY ARE THREE DEPARTMENTS Engineering Operations Marketing Design Organize Create Make Build Assemble Price Position Sell
THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT WORKS WITH OTHER COMPANIES Marketing Department
THE BASICS OF MARKETING ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
WHAT MARKETERS ACTUALLY DO?
As a Marketer you should  be prepared to evolve
from  MASS  targeting In the old days, marketing had to focus on everyone with a single message
In just a Few Mediums that  interrupt
to  individual  relationships
With 1000’s of tools that  engage
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Challenges for Marketers in 2011
OUR CHANGING MARKETING LANDSCAPE:  THE “ALWAYS ON” RELATIONSHIP ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Materials Fulfillment 24/7 365 Direct Mail Search Web Site Social Media Call center Sales Media Consumer Mobile Email In-Store
Tracking, Analyzing and Fine-Tuning
WE ALL SEE ABOUT 500 – 1500 MARKETING MESSAGES EVERY DAY
Where We don’t Expect Them
Where we Chat
In Unusual Locations
Ads that make us laugh
Product Placement in our TV Shows
IT’S FUN. IT’S HARD. IT’S ALWAYS CHANGING ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
WHAT SKILLS ARE VITAL TO MARKETING? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
 
MOST SUBJECTS CAN BE TURNED INTO A MARKETING CAREER
SUMMER JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS HELP Waitress   Tour Guide Bike Mechanic Ticket Sales   Factory Worker Event Planner
One Last Word About your Foreign Language Classes.. It’s a Global Marketplace Where language Skills can Come in Handy
Chevrolet Nova in Spanish = “ no-va“ It Won’t Go
Schwepps Tonic Water in Italian =  Water from the Toilet
Slogan translated into Spanish = "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you.” "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant" Translated to
Pepsi Slogan in Chinese= Come alive with the Pepsi Generation Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead Translated to
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Marketing career day

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  1. Go over each While these are the basics, practically everything has changed in the years since I graduated from college.
  2. Although I’ve always been in marketing, I’ve had to learn dozens of new technologies, new skills
  3. How you gonna clean up this mess? Electrolux in America American companies aren't the only ones that have fumbled their ad campaigns on foreign soil. Sometimes the embarrassment is imported to our very own shores. Case in point: Electrolux, the Scandinavian electronics company. Electrolux can make one heck of a refrigerator (Frigidare) and if you need a vacuum cleaner that'll suck the chrome off a trailer hitch, they're your guys. But the company ran into a little trouble trying to persuade the American consumer of that in the early 1970s. When the company took its catchy rhyming phrase “nothing sucks like an Electrolux” and brought it to America from English-speaking markets overseas, they failed to take into consideration the fact that “sucks” had become a derogatory word in the States. The serious language barrier persuaded the firm to turn to a U.S.-based PR firm for future ad campaigns.