Business Academic Skills for Marketing Careers

Running head: BUSINESS ACADEMIC SKILLS
Business Academic Skills
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Introduction
The following essay brings out the different business skills that would be required by the
employers when they will go on to hire the employees in the organizations. It is the
responsibility of the employees to build up some of the professional business skills that would
take them to the desired heights in the professional skills. In this essay the necessary skills for the
business communication will need to be identified in regards to marketing. The skills will be
given the proper justification indeed. The essay question will be answered and the implications
of the universities teaching the undergraduate students would be discussed as well.
Discussion
Topic sentence 1: Communication is a very important for the marketing careers
The importance of the communication to customers is a very important prospect in the
marketing career for the newcomers.1 The marketers need to communicate with thee customers
very fluently to understand and assess their needs and desires. The organizations should give
jobs to the people who are excellent in the professional communication. The marketers have to
communicate with the common public so they will need to communicate freely. They should tell
the customers about the value and benefits of the products that are being marketed.2 They should
always provide the customers with the best products in their repertoire. One very important thing
in this aspect is the verbal communication with the customers. The marketers should always be
able to communicate with the customers so they can provide them with positive feedback. They
should also be able to convince the customers to buy the products.3 The online communication
for the marketers should include the social media campaigns reaching the customers, TV
advertisements and many others. If a marketer is selling a mobile phone, he should explain to the
1 Armstrong, Gary, Philip Kotler, Michael Harker, and Ross Brennan. Marketing: an introduction. Pearson
Education, 2015.
2 Baker, Michael J. Marketing strategy and management. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
3 Belch, George E., Michael A. Belch, Gayle F. Kerr, and Irene Powell. Advertising: An integrated marketing
communication perspective. McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.

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customers about the specifications and advantages of the mobile so the customers should go for
it.
Topic sentence 2: Use of technology is a very important business skill required by the
employers.
The use of technology is a very essential skill in building a successful marketing career.
The recruiters always find some people who have a good deal of knowledge in implementing the
technological skills within their responsibilities. The companies always search for the tech savvy
people with good skills. The employees might have to implement the project management
software to analyze the market data and evaluate them properly. These things would have to
done perfectly to improve the condition of their organization in the market. They should arrange
for making the key campaigns in the market. They should be able judge the success of the social
media campaigns and thus they should be able to gain a better position.4 The complicated
systems would be analyzed by the marketers to know what strategies they might adopt to get the
best results.5 As for example it can be said when a retail company faces some issues in launching
new products, they should advertise their products through the social media and gain the
feedback from their loyal customers. This should make them understand the interest about the
product in those customers.
Topic Sentence 3: How can the universities teach the marketing communication systems to
the undergraduate students?
It is the responsibility of the top universities to teach their students of marketing about the
ways how they could learn about the communication systems related to marketing. The
universities can arrange for several seminars in which the students can deliver their speeches.
The students can also take part in the face to face communication with the customers through the
4 Luxton, Sandra, Mike Reid, and Felix Mavondo. "Integrated marketing communication capability and brand
performance." Journal of Advertising 44, no. 1 (2015): 37-46.
5 Parente, Donald, and Kirsten Strausbaugh-Hutchinson. Advertising campaign strategy: A guide to marketing
communication plans. Cengage Learning, 2014.