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Investigate the field of
Marketing, Sales & Service
 Get the facts about education requirements, average earnings (national,
statewide, and regional), job requirements, and employment projections
for each of the occupations below.
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Retail Sales
& Management
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| Management and Entrepreneurship |
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These people are responsible for creating and maintaining
businesses.
The things you could do:
- Be a consultant who helps other people make business
decisions.
- Start your own company.
- Make decisions about what to sell and how to sell it.
| Professional Sales and Marketing |
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These people help other companies sell to consumers
and to other businesses.
The things you could do:
- Work for an advertising agency as an account executive.
- Manage a team of sales people.
- Work with distributors or re-sellers of a product to increase sales.
| Buying and Merchandising |
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These people help companies sell their product.
The things you could do:
- Plan and purchase advertisements in newspapers, magazines,
or on television.
- Purchase the items that will be sold in a retail store.
- Sell items in a store directly to consumers.
| Marketing Communications and Promotion |
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These jobs are oriented to the materials and tactics
used to sell products and promote companies or ideas.
The things you could do:
- Design advertisements.
- Write jingles for commercials.
- Manage a company’s public image.
- Write and distribute information about a product to the media.
| Marketing Information Management and Research |
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These people study trends in people and organizations.
The things you could do:
- Develop a brand for a product and help make it different
from other similar products.
- Research buying trends in shoppers.
- Create plans to promote a company or a product.
- Manage databases of information and produce reports.
| Distribution and Logistics |
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These are the jobs that help get the products to the
people.
The things you could do:
- Work in a warehouse and assemble pieces of a kit for
shipment.
- Maintain inventories in stores and plan for restocking.
- Ship products to customers.
- Manage a warehouse.
Sales and marketing that takes place on the Internet.
The things you could do:
- Run an online “store”.
- Develop ads for Web sites.
- Study Web traffic trends and provide reports to companies.
- Create a Web program that track purchases and shipping statuses.
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