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What is the hardest part about marketing?

I am a middle school student and I took a quiz in class that told me marketing would be a good career choice for me. #school #student #graduate-school #high-school-classes #college #marketing

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Riley’s Answer

That's an exciting insight from your quiz, Donovan! First of all, marketing is a fun and fast-paced career. To echo what the others are saying, one of the more challenging aspects of working in marketing is how fast things can change. This also means that your days will be filled with exciting opportunities to learn and try things. One of the best ways to learn about marketing - and if it's something that you are interested in - is by consuming marketing! Below are some of my favorite exercises...

1. What are brands that you really like (i.e. Nike, Netflix, etc.)?
2. Follow those brands on social media
3. Look up their commercials on YouTube
4. What do you like about them? Why do you think others like them?

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Work with a parent or some friends to start a small business... it can be a lemonade stand or even something like cleaning and re-selling used golf balls. Try your hand at what it feels like to promote it. The best way to learn is to try!

So have fun, learn lots and remember that there is no such thing as a "perfect plan". Wishing you all the best, Donovan!

Riley recommends the following next steps:

"Find Your Favorite Brands" Exercise
"Try a Small Business" Exercise
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7VIINhlTwU
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Simeon’s Answer

Marketing can mean appealing to very niche and quickly changing tastes. You have to be adaptive. Another aspect of marketing that many find challenging are some of the ethical concerns. There is a lot of behavioral psychology involved in modern marketing, almost to the point of taking control away from the consumer by habitualizing consumption of their product. Each person has to make up their own mind about what they think is ok as far as these topics are concerned.
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Allacyn’s Answer

The hardest and most rewarding thing about being in marketing is that it is a field where things constantly change. It moves and evolves quickly which is both exciting and challenging. It provides practitioners with the opportunity to continue to learn, grow and evolve.
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Steve’s Answer

The hardest part about Marketing is not knowing one of the 4 P's of Marketing be it Promotion, Place, Price and Product. You need to know these 4 key items in order to be able to market the good or service to others. Study marketing online and do an internet search on the various aspects, and take a college course or two in marketing or international marketing. Knowledge is power and knowing as much as you can will keep you out of a difficult situation of having something be hard for you in Marketing.

I hope you love the Marketing journey.

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Study the 4 P's of Marketing.
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Cindy’s Answer

Marketing means that you must constantly be creating new content usually. That puts pressure on the person to be aware of what's happening in the marketplace and figuring out how to reach that audience in different ways. Being creating means coming up with new ideas that fit different themes or audiences. The need to constantly be innovative can be challenging, yet there's several ways to overcome that (getting good sleep, meditating, allowing quiet thinking time, spreading yourself into multiple areas of focus to be available wherever the opportunity presents itself). The good news is that marketing has lots of different focus areas; such as writing content (letters or building websites), being a designer where you're building images, and building messages across various social media platforms.
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