Tag: marketing professional

The field of marketing is going through continuous shifts driven by technological advancements, changing consumer behaviours and upcoming trends. To survive in this fast and competitive profession, marketers must keep themselves updated and adapt to each new challenge they face. Future-proofing your marketing career involves continuous learning and cultivating a versatile skill set.

SMS marketing is a highly effective way to reach out to customers and promote your business. With its high open rates, quick delivery, and wide reach, SMS marketing can be a powerful tool to engage with customers, drive conversions, and build brand loyalty. However, to create an effective SMS marketing campaign, businesses must approach it strategically and thoughtfully. In Australia, SMS marketing is governed by the Spam Act 2003, which outlines the rules that businesses must follow when sending SMS messages.

While ‘post COVID’ is a little premature, the current sentiment in the market really lends itself to thinking about what a career in marketing looks like today.

In the past, there was almost a sure ride from marketing intern to marketing graduate, then depending on which direction you decided to head, a slow ride through from Marketing Executive to Marketing Manager. For the lucky few (those who worked the hardest), Chief Marketing Officer or as we like to call it, CMO.

With a new year beginning, many companies are reevaluating their marketing function within their business, and based on the resources available, are setting expectations for their marketing resources.

A performance review often comes with a lot of trepidation, from both parties. When you put marketing, or marketers into the equation, that trepidation is two-fold and often is met with a sense of expectation versus reality and performance reviews can lead to marketers either being motivated to 'do more and be more' or leaving the company.

It's that time of year again where business leaders are conducting performance reviews.

When you have a marketing agency, it is imperative that you understand the very different dynamics between marketers and other roles within a company. Fundamentally, marketers are very different and like most professions, tend to have triggers that keep their performance at a high, and others that send them in a downward spiral.

There always comes a time when we question what’s next? Are you bored, tired or frustrated in your current position? Dreading going to work of a morning? There is no career path for a marketer.

We all need a career change here and there – but what we need is to find the role that’s exciting, has endless possibilities and keeps us on our toes!