About the job:
As a Marketing Strategist, you find ways to promote and market the products or services of a company. You aim to increase the sales and profits of the company by convincing people to buy its products. You also find the right pricing to attract new customers.
As a Marketing Strategist, you will have to:
- Meet stressful deadlines
- Accept criticism and feedback very well
- Be prepared to modify your ideas, if your client is not satisfied with them
As a Marketing Strategist, you may get to:
- Lead impressive campaigns
- Change the way people think through your ideas
- Build strong and profitable relationships with your clients
- 40-50 hours per week
- 10-20% evenings & weekends
In Marketing, you may work long hours to meet deadlines. You may also travel to meet with clients, attend events, and promote your company.
Are you the right fit?
- Economics/Business
- Psychology
- Economics/Sociology
- Understanding what you hear
- Understanding written information
- Expressing yourself verbally
- Communicating your ideas in writing
- Problem Sensitivity
- Originality
- Fluency of ideas
- Good With Numbers
- Reasoning & Problem Solving
Will you make money?
Education stuff:
- You need a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing or a related field to begin career as a Marketing Strategist. You should also have experience in advertising, marketing, writing and sales in order to grow your career.
Video Description
Marketing is all around us, it shapes us and how we behave. But what’s it really like working in Marketing and Advertising? Hussein Shuman founded his own Marketing & Advertising company at 21, with only $1000, and gives Nooreed the inside scoop on his career.
Are you creative and extroverted? Could Marketing be the career for you?
Biography
Recently graduated and with only $1000 loan, Hussein Shuman founded his own Advertising Agency! He worked door-to-door to get his first customers, and then as word-of-mouth grew he because more successful. Hussein lives by his motto: follow your passion!