Does your marketing career path include a role in Sports?

Over his marketing career, Tim Clark, envisioned working in sports at some point, but never knew how to find his way in. Through a focus on making connections, showing his value on a daily basis, and working harder than other candidates in networking, he was able to land a role at NASCAR.

Tim then welcomed the opportunity to take on any and all responsibilities in his role, which helped him navigate his way through. few promotions. Now he is SVP and Chief Digital Officer for NASCAR.

Tim joins The Marketing Careers Podcast to share some valuable tips and insights on -how to be an advocate for yourself in your marketing roles, how to develop your own path into a sports marketing career, and what NOT to do when interviewing for a sports marketing role.

Does your marketing career path include a role in Product Marketing?

Over his marketing career, Tom Tate leveraged his curiosity for learning - coupled with his ability to manage chaos - to go from a project manager to a leader in the product marketing industry.

Tom's role as a project manager within an agency caused him to get the 'marketing bug.' This led him to pursue roles within a few product companies, where he could contribute to the full cycle of rolling out go-to-market campaigns.

Tom joins The Marketing Careers Podcast to share some valuable tips and insights on - when you should know it is time to look for a new marketing role, which career factors drove him into a product marketing career path, and how to best run your next 1-on-1 meeting.

Is working for a startup part of your marketing career path?

Over his marketing career, Dave Fink has embraced his interest in human motivations, and curiosity on how businesses work, to launch several startups. After a role in enterprise sales, Dave realized when advising several startup marketing leaders that there was a missed opportunity that would allow brands to programmatically scale targeted messages to their audiences..via direct mail...and his startup, Postie was born.

Dave joins The Marketing Careers Podcast to share some valuable tips and insights on marketing a startup brand and the challenges faced when building a marketing team. Dave also shares the greatest story / example of the importance of networking and marketing yourself when seeking your next marketing role.

In your marketing career, have you ever had to be your own advocate?

Over her marketing career, Jennifer Hitchens has welcomed challenges big and small. From her first role as an assistant to an agency creative director to her role as VP of Digital Experience, she has always embraced the ability to help. Help herself, help others and help establish some pretty big initiatives within some big companies.

Jennifer joins The Marketing Careers Podcast to share some valuable tips and insights on the marketing career moments that will help shape your journey - from embracing the difference between a manager, mentor and advocate, to the importance of self-confidence, to the 3 things you should prepare for acing any marketing interview.

This "How To Talk About" episode continues our focus on marketing trends and predictions, for this year, and how they'll impact your career in business, marketing, & communications.

In this episode, we're discussing the trend of how networking and learning has become much more ubiquitous and accessible as seemingly every brand has a community, and everyone is a coach. The barrier to entry of becoming a more connected marketer (both hard skills and soft skills) has become so low - that every marketer should be strengthening their network and learning progress.

Jed and I discuss why this is even a marketing career trend, how marketers should, and should not, embrace it. Plus, we give predictions on why this will still be a marketing career trend 12 months from now.

This "How To Talk About" episode continues our focus on marketing trends and predictions, for this year, and how they'll impact your career in business, marketing, & communications.

In this episode, based on how the pandemic has forced companies to go 100% remote, we're discussing the upcoming phase of hybrid marketing teams, when half employees are remote and half are onsite, and how you can successfully prepare yourself by developing the necessary career management skills to effectively stay connected and relevant to peers, managers, and other professional connections.

Jed and I discuss why this is even a marketing career trend, how marketers should, and should not, embrace it. Plus, we give predictions on why this will still be a marketing career trend 12 months from now.

This "How To Talk About" episode kicks off an annual mini-series on marketing trends and predictions and how they'll impact your career in business, marketing, & communications.

In this episode related to the Great Resignation or Great Reshuffle, we're discussing the growing trend of "quitting in public" - i.e. publishing a post through social media about your resignation - and how you can successfully navigate conversations with peers, managers, and other professional connections about this topic.

Jed and I discuss why this is even a marketing career trend, how marketers should, and should not, embrace it. Plus, we give predictions on why this will still be a marketing career trend 12 months from now.

As a marketer, have you considered working for a brand or company in a regulated industry?

Over his marketing career, Piers Dickinson has held several roles in the bio-tech and Pharma industries - learning a ton about how to build high-functioning teams and how to champion a brand internally within an organization.

Piers joins The Marketing Careers Podcast to some valuable tips and insights on the marketing career moments that will help shape your journey - from the importance of a networking, to maximizing career currency from a multi-year tenure with a company, to the value of always staying connected to your teams.

In this "How To Talk About" episode, we tackle one of the most popular topics with marketers today - your personal brand.

More specifically, how you talk about your personal brand during your marketing interview.

Jed and I discuss the top 3 topic pillars every marketer should be preparing for any upcoming interview, and how to speak to each.

Plus, we included a few bonus topics on some key actions you can execute to be a coveted and memorable candidate for any marketing interview.

As a marketer, have you considered becoming specialized in a niche industry?

In her marketing career, Rebecca Pollard has held several roles in the pet industry (Pet360, PetCo, GreatPet) from a merchandise buyer to CMO.

She joins The Marketing Careers Podcast to give tons of tips and insights on the marketing career moments that will help shape your journey - from the importance of a Career Council, to the value of setting professional goals, to navigating from contributor to manager roles.