How to become an awesome marketing manager! New to Markeng Management? No worries! Here are 10 ps that will help you dominate this business and become the best there is. 1. Look for potential when hiring The person with the most experience isn’t always the best for your team. Keep an eye out for employees who show potenal to grow quickly, learn a lot, and display an eagerness to do extraordinary things. 2. Keep up to date with digital marketing trends Digital markeng is where it’s at right now. Each day brings new developments in this rapidly changing field, so make sure to subscribe to blogs, vlogs, and podcasts that deal with digital markeng topics. Even though you will have a lot of administrave dues, you are sll leading a team that needs to come up with original, and excing, ideas. So don’t stop thinking creavely - be inspired, and be inspiring! 3. Don’t lose your creativity Markeng is about creavity, innovaon, and thinking outside of the box. So make sure your employees work in an environment that is smulang, fun, and inspiring. 4. Create a fun work environment As a manager, your responsibilies are to plan, oversee, and delegate. So stop occupying your me with small tasks and trying to do everything yourself. Let your team take care of those things! 5. Learn to delegate There will always be someone beer than you. So make sure you learn from them, find out what they are doing beer than you, and find a way to overtake them! 6. Learn from your competitors It’s easy to be over-ambious when it comes to markeng strategies. Remember that it is beer to execute a simple idea successfully than to toil at an idea that is too complicated. 7. Focus on simple ideas 8. Work with the sales department, not against them The more you learn to work with a sales department, the more success both departments will have in the end. So focus on co-operaon and compromise, not compeon and conflict. This is the golden rule of markeng. Get into the mind of your target market by doing research, conducng interviews, and sending out surveys. It is easy to forget that you aren’t your own target market. 9. Know your market As Steve Jobs said: “If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to, you have to, be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.” 10. Get input from everyone study a marketing course via distance learning www.oxbridgeacademy.co.za