What skills charaterize successful marketers?

Answer 1

Highly organized,
very strong interpersonal communication skills,
very high energy,
creative people
A person who enjoys rapidly changing pace
A person who is willing to put a lot of extra hours into a project, including staying late or coming in early.
A person who can drop projects and move onto to the next time
A person who can stay positive
A person who can see the strength in a situation and use it to their advantage
A person who is motivated by success

Answer 2

On top of everything that "Searcher" mentioned, he/she must be an expert on consumers, positioning and mass communication.
Because he is the only responsible for creating demand for the Company's products. Nobody else is doing that.
Besides, he/she must understand other areas jobs, and be absolutely profit oriented.
Finally, he has to be the leader of his product:
“ Somebody who can develop a vision of what he or she wants, their business, their unit, their activity to do and be. Somebody who is able to articulate to the entire business what the business is, and gain through a sharing of the discussion –listening and talking – an acceptance of the vision. And then, can relentlessly drive the implementation of that vision to a successful conclusion” (Jack Welch –General Electric CEO)

Answer 3

A successful marketer is someone who is:

- very hardworking
- open-minded, which means he doesn't ignore changes and new ideas about marketing
- a risk-taker
- creative, combining not only one but more marketing formulas as strategy
- organized
- monitoring every task
- must also have PR qualities to know more about his market


Mary
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