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What Do You Do For A Living?

Posted by Anonymous on 2/17/2006 at 9:40 AM ET 100 Points
How do you respond when the average person who knows nothing about marketing ,a friend or relative, asks the question 'what do you do for a living'?

If you tell most people that you're into Finance,accounting,sales or management they seem to have have a pretty good idea about what it is that you do for a living.

But if you say you're into marketing they get a confused look on their face and ask 'what is that' or they say 'oh you mean advertising'?

How do you explain to people your profession?
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  • Posted by michael on 2/17/2006 at 9:47 AM Accepted
    I say we "help our customers make more money by bringing prospects into their system early in the buying cycle".

    If they stare at me like I'm an alien, I tell them I'm in advertising!

    Confused faces don't bother me because I get to explain to them the difference between advertising and marketing.

    Michael
  • Posted by Carl Crawford on 2/17/2006 at 11:48 AM Member
    Dude you need to hang out with some smarter people. :P

    Well, I tell people a am a starving Student that is JUST above the poverty line.

    If any body didn't know what marketing was (and I have yet to meet someone that didn't know what it was in at least a more then "its just advertising" way) I would say "I make the product/service available to you when you want it, where you want, how you want, at a price you want it, even if you didn't know you wanted it." Or something close to that anyway.
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