Marketing specialist

When it comes to promoting a business, a good marketing specialist proves to be vital in increasing the company's visibility and, implicitly, its revenues. He is an expert in online and offline promotion, an indispensable man for a successful business.

Beyond other variables that should be considered to be successful, marketing is one of the most impactful criteria that must be met with great seriousness.

Discover below all the information regarding the profession of marketing specialist.

What does a marketer do?

If you think about what a marketing specialist does, everything can be defined by versatility and a multilateral approach.

Mainly, it deals with business promotion, creating advertising campaigns, and setting marketing trends.

Of course, promotion methods can be very different from one business to another, so you never know what awaits you.

Finally, he gets involved in many marketing strategies, including pricing based on demographic statistics to target certain categories of customers, content creation, campaigns, and marketing projects.

A marketing specialist who knows what he is doing can take your business to the level you have always wanted.

Job description of a marketing specialist

Many responsibilities make up the job description of a marketing specialist, and at the same time extremely diverse.

If at the beginning it will deal with smaller tasks such as targeted promotion, brainstorming, content creation, and optimization, it will even end up creating complete marketing strategies, helping companies and brands to interconnect with customers and their requirements.

The marketing specialist will analyze the statistical data regarding the purchasing behavior of people, the economic dynamics, respectively how much people buy, in what age category they fall, and even how much money they spend, on average,

A marketer can also work with others to develop viable business strategies.

The qualities of a marketing specialist

Beyond being a communicative person, who can work in a team and is always willing to listen, the qualities of a marketing specialist are part of a wide range of features. A marketing specialist must, first of all, have the necessary knowledge to be able to create impactful, viable marketing strategies, the results of which will be felt along the way.

This means that they need to be able to discern possible scenarios for approaching a particular strategy to avoid possible mistakes.

He must be able to interpret certain types of statistical data, be versatile in approaching certain situations, be creative, and be able to bend to the various tasks required of him.

In short, the qualities of a marketing specialist are:

• creativity
• fickle
• flexibility
• time management
• document and customer management
• organization
• planning
• attention to detail
• quick decision making
• ability to analyze and sort/prioritize
• communication
• empathy
• adaptability
• lifelong learning ability

Salary as a marketing specialist

Because any job must be remunerated, the salary range for a person working in Romania, in the category of marketing, advertising, and PR, is usually between 800$ and can even reach 2500$.

However, regarding the salary of a marketing specialist, there is not exactly an exact amount, it depends on the employer.

Even if at the beginning, as a junior marketing specialist, the salary will be a bit lower, over time, once the results of the strategy you have developed are validated, it will certainly increase.

In addition to the bonuses you will receive, you will also have the opportunity to improve your skills and qualities in an optimal environment, surrounded by people with the same passions.

What does it mean to be an expert in marketing?

Being an expert in marketing means not only knowing how to implement a viable business strategy, with expected results but also following the evolutionary dynamics in terms of marketing trends.

There are many things you need to consider and pay close attention to because you can often make mistakes.

However, a marketing expert can be the most impactful factor in a business.

By developing targeted business strategies, it will be much easier to reach people and thus potential customers.

Even if the results will not be visible from the beginning, they will appear over time and will become constant and even increase.

Duties as a marketing specialist

Regarding the duties of a marketing specialist, there are many tasks that a person in this field has to do.

A marketer needs to create advertising campaigns, keep the community engaged, increase the visibility of a business and thus increase its sales.

It is difficult to define a clear list of tasks, given that, depending on the case, they are very varied.

Here are some responsibilities of the marketing specialist in general:

• marketing strategy;
• setting up and creating marketing campaigns;
• writing marketing materials;
• coordination of content writers and copywriters team;
• measuring, analyzing, and reporting the results of marketing campaigns;
• finding opportunities for promotion, advertising, and cross-posting.

The training needed to become a marketing specialist

To become a marketing specialist, of course, you can attend an accredited and approved faculty in the field.

However, that is not all, you have to learn all the time, and this is what you do best in the workplace. D

Also, many marketing specialists have obtained accreditation after graduating from online courses.

After graduating from a college in the field, whether we are talking about a bachelor's or master's degree, there are certain certifications and qualifications that you can acquire later. They will help you specialize much better on a certain profile, even in terms of marketing. The important thing is, as I said, to like what you do and to be good.

Therefore, if you want to become a marketing specialist, but do not have a university degree in marketing or communication, you can access the necessary information through several options:

• go on an internship at a marketing firm, or marketing agency to learn practically
• you become a volunteer in a program, NGO, or company that needs a junior marketing specialist
• you take paid courses online or in the classroom, you learn from free resources;
• you become a freelancer and learn marketing from a Romanian or international company.

What you are not told when you want to become a marketing specialist

Marketing is an effervescent field, even in a permanent change.

In other words, what you knew yesterday is good, tomorrow may be exactly what you need to beware of.

You need to be constantly up to date with current trends, track statistics, analyze results and, more than that, constantly learn and reinvent yourself.

What you are not told is that every customer is different.

What a customer wants from their marketer is not necessarily similar to what someone else wants. Therefore, it is good to tell them from the beginning what you can do for them, how you can help them, what you cannot do, what you guarantee and what you cannot.

It is important to set boundaries from the beginning. This way you will set the expectations of your clients, colleagues, collaborators, and superiors, and no one will be disappointed or demotivated.

The challenges of a marketing specialist

One of the main challenges of a marketer is that you need to constantly adapt to the changes that are taking place in the online environment.

Another challenge is the fact that you have to meet the deadlines and deliver the product on time, even if you don't have a good day and, of course, no desire to take care of the given task.

Another challenge is that you will have to constantly reinvent yourself to keep up with the times, and this can mean taking classes constantly. Even if the company you work for does not offer you training courses, you will have to take care of yourself and invest your funds in your development.

If you are a freelance marketing specialist you will have to work with several clients and companies, and this will require a lot of communication skills, organization, and flexibility. You will have to adapt to the requirements, desires, and dreams of each entrepreneur.

The conclusion is that a marketing specialist has a lot of responsibilities, depending on the company in which he works and its objectives.

To get into such a profession, you do not necessarily need studies in the field, but passion, to be attracted to this field and, of course, experience is very important and what you know how to do.

by Vlad Nita

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