by: Silas Reed

International marketing has become a very lucrative aspect of any job and today there are many young people everywhere that want to take this up as a career. Marketing in itself is very interesting and along with the basics of sales, it is taught in the school level itself these days.

This is so that young minds can grasp the subject properly and much earlier because the competition is much more in today’s day and age. Jobs in international marketing are quite demanding because one needs to look after not a single country’s profile but many other countries and parts of the world.

Marketing careers and marketing jobs are what people are going in for. Every government is also pressing on the need for entrepreneurship and thus, this is one motivating factor behind the reason which people want to study it and take it up as a career. It requires a great amount of dynamism as the main aim requires people to keep coming up with new and improves solutions and ideas as to how one can improve the sales and marketing of a particular firm.

There are umpteenth numbers of big names that are attached with these projects and we keep reading about them in the papers each day. It is very exciting as companies become rivals with each other and try and battle it out in the market or the consumer base by trying to come up with newer marketing strategies which would improve their sales.

If you want to work in international marketing, then you will have to get the required degrees. An MBA is also a great degree to have from a reputes university because it would help you in getting a job in this kind of a career profile. The rates and levels of employment in international marketing have also been on a rise lately because there are more and more companies on the rise each day and equally more employees who are waiting to be accepted by them and work for them.

You need to have a fresh mind full of new marketing strategies and ideas to either help the firm maintain its sales and marketing levels or increase them. These are the mark of a good employee. International marketing firms also treat their employees well. They have the provisions for living arrangements, transport, and food with very well made and maintained cafeterias.

Many even have provisions of gyms and gardens for their employees to relax in. Thus, it is quite an interesting career type if you are interested in it, and you should do a little more research about the company and its achievements before going in for it.
Silas Reed, Writer for http://www.marketingcrossing.com MarketingCrossing, writes articles that inform and teach about different marketing job profiles. Please visit http://www.marketingcrossing.com http://www.marketingcrossing.com and sign up for a FREE trial to gain access to ALL of the many exclusive job listings we offer in the marketing profession.

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by: Tony Rice

In the professional services industry, if there’s one thing that creates inertia to investment in online marketing, it’s the belief that you can’t sell consulting services over the web. There’s an element of truth in this, but a whole lot wrong with it. So read on if you want to look at this from an entirely different angle that could transform your approach to sales pipeline building.

Of course it’s true that people won’t get their credit cards out to buy high priced intangible products that normally have long sales gestation periods and require expert conversations before a deal takes place. However don’t let this fool you into ignoring the stages of the sales and marketing process where the web can make massive contributions, it can shrink sales cycles and automate lead generation by taking people out of the process. What it can do for you is bring more prospects to the table, win their trust and get them deeper into your sales funnel without expensive people ever having met them!

Once you’ve moved to this way of thinking, you’ll have prospects knocking on your door rather than you on theirs, your sales pipeline will be a lot healthier, your expensive people will be better utilized and your cost of client acquisition will be much lower than it is today.

If you are going to move to this mindset you need to work on three key things:

1. Talk in the ‘needs’ language of your target audience.

2. Provide useful information that educates them and earns their trust.

3. Make your website the hub for all marketing campaigns.

Here’s how:

1. Talk in the ‘needs’ language of your target audience.

The buying language of consulting consumers is often very different to the selling language used by consultants on their websites. This results in a misalignment between the buyer and the seller. We all know that consultants like to talk about themselves more than they do about their clients! When your clients go online to do their research, you want to be the one that sings their song and presses their buttons. So if you do your homework and identify with their needs, wants and issues, rather than your products, services and company, then you’ll be the one to grab their attention and bring them one step closer.

2. Provide useful information that educates them and earns their trust.

Most of the time consumers of professional services do a lot of online research to develop their issue or thinking before they decide on their provider. Would you like to help them do their research? You bet! These people will be grateful to you for good quality information, help and advice. Consulting is a relationship business, so when they’re ready to buy, you’ll be right up there in their mind as someone they trust to provide the expertise they need. So if you make it easy for them by providing valuable and useful information in the form of white papers, advisory articles, presentations, research reports, podcasts etc. then you’ll be the one they trust and they won’t be reserved in picking up the phone to you.

3. Make your website the hub for all marketing campaigns.

Most consulting firms who have a marketing plan treat their website like a separate strand of activity, along with direct mail, telemarketing, event speaking, sponsorship, advertising etc. The problem with much of this is the difficulty in measuring results. If you make your website the central hub for all marketing activities, then you can measure the return on investment from all of your campaigns. Make sure you’ve got a good visitor tracking tool installed (e.g. Opentracker), build special landing pages for each campaign, automate the delivery of your information products and capture contact information for use in on-going marketing communications. If you do these things you’ll be well on your way to ‘lights out lead generation’!

So is it stupid to think you can sell professional services and consulting over the web?

Well it’s doable for advisory products at a sub $1000 price point, but generally speaking you cannot close a complex deal online. But you can use the web to get your first meeting with a prospect, and if you use this as your main objective then you’ll soon be pushing leads into your sales pipeline with much less effort and cost.

Tony Rice is a partner at Equiteq LLP, experts in M&A for the consulting industry. He has spent his career marketing to blue chip companies and was CEO of an award winning internet marketing project at BT plc. Tony often helps consulting clients to develop effective marketing plans for growth prior to the sale of their firm. http://www.equiteq.co.uk

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