Event Promotions Marketing Associate

Career Area: Sales

Occupation Group: Non-Technical Sales

Salary

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A typical Event Promotions Marketing Associate earns the following wages (national and state):

State

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National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $46,707

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Plans and organizes event based marketing promotions for business products or services. Organizes events or event-based campaigns that reach targeted audiences directly, in person or online. Assists with planning, publicity and logistics for promotional events.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Event Promotions Marketing Associate is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Creativity: Mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results in innovative or different approaches to a particular task.
• Multi-Tasking: In computing, multitasking is a concept of performing multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time by executing them concurrently.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Advertising: Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, nonpersonal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
• Event Planning: Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of large scale events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. The process of planning and coordinating the event is usually referred to as event planning and which can include budgeting, scheduling, site selection, acquiring necessary permits, coordinating transportation and parking, arranging for speakers or entertainers, arranging decor, event security, catering, coordinating with third party vendors, and emergency plans.
• Marketing: Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
• Sales: Experience selling products or services to consumers.
• Psychology: Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Event Promotions Marketing Associate that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Ad Campaigns: An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement message that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC).
• Retail Sales: Working experience of Retail Sales, which is the knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services.
• Management Training: Working experience of Management Training, which is a training activity that focuses on improving an individual's skills as a leader and manager. There may be an emphasis on soft skills, such as communication and empathy, which enable better team work and more progressive relationships with the people they manage. Management training may also focus on the business side of being a manager such as reporting to senior leaders, more effectively leading performance reviews and talent acquisition (where responsibility for recruitment falls with managers).
• Digital Advertising: Online advertising, also called online marketing or Internet advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to consumers.
• Brand Management: In marketing, brand management is the analysis and planning on how that brand is perceived in the market.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Customer Acquisition: Working experience of Customer Acquisition, which is the process of persuading a consumer to purchase a company's goods or services. The cost associated with the important customer acquisition process is an important measure for a business to evaluate in combination with how much value having each customer typically brings to the business.
• Promotional Campaigns: A series of advertisements using various marketing tools that share the same message and ideas to promote a business or event to a target audience. The typical campaign uses different media resources including internet, newspapers, television, radio, and print advertising.
• Advertising Industry Knowledge: Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, nonpersonal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
• Sales Management: Sales management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of sales techniques and the management of a firm's sales operations.
• Public Relations: Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) and the public.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Marketing And Advertising
• Advertising/Marketing
• Sponsorship Sales Consultant
• Advertising Sales Representative - Lifestyle Magazine
• Retail Sales, Advertising/Marketing