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Mada_

Question for entrepreneurs - noob to Marketing

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I am a complete beginner to studying Marketing. I have seen some courses from local universities which are 6 months - 1 year long, which introduce you to concepts such as:

  • consumer insight and target audience profiling
  • media planning and buying
  • strategic marketing and research in business
  • digital media applications and software
  • social media marketing and advertising
  • creative and persuasive communications
  • website marketing and video production.

If I do not plan to create a career in Marketing specifically, would this be a wise time investment? Is a university a trustworthy source of information in regards to Marketing? Or would I be better off consuming videos, youtube videos, books, online courses etc.?

 

Thanks.

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@Mada_ How can we know the quality of what your Uni teaches? It all depends on the quality of it.

From the course titles you gave, it sounds relatively decent.


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3 hours ago, Mada_ said:

If I do not plan to create a career in Marketing specifically, would this be a wise time investment?

I'm probably gonna say "no". I studied marketing in Uni and actually graduated in it and yet I am as clueless about marketing as the next man. Creating a small business now I'm having to re-learn everything. The tips @herghly mentione can give you more insights than 5 years at business uni because so much of the stuff they teach is a useless nonsense, ideology, theories and outdated stuff. 

Now I don't know about your uni, could be that they are well caught up with the real world but when I studied (7 years ago) nothing we learned was practical in real world unless you want to do the typical shady marketing which is just selling more crap. 


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