I am a college student, and as a marketing major, I am often asked by people who are not college students what I do when it comes to marketing my classes. I can tell them that I research the curriculum, look for the right resources, and create marketing plans to help get students interested in the classes.
That’s a great answer, but I think that the marketing plans for my classes are one of the most important things I do to help my students.
My marketing plan for my marketing course is to be a student advocate, to advocate for the students with whom I spend my time. I want to be a student advocate because I want to show them that I care about them. When I start a class I do my best to show my students that I am trying to help them succeed. This may seem like a small thing, but I want to show them that I truly care about them.
The best way to do this is to think of your marketing class as a “virtual” campus. I’m going to talk a little bit about the “virtual” part. You can think of your marketing class as a bunch of students who are all interested in a class, but none of them actually take the class or actually take the course to get a degree. We all go to class to learn to market ourselves.
We think of the marketing class as a virtual campus because our students all just want to succeed in their respective fields. Because they’re all interested in marketing, they have no interest in studying. As a result, their marketing class is essentially dead. We can’t even figure out what their courses are called because they all look the same.
Now that we have a full understanding of the marketing courses, it is obvious that we should actually create our own marketing class.
In reality, most marketing classes are actually very good, but they are very time consuming. The reason is that everyone is constantly looking for ways to do what they already do best: sell products. Marketing is a very good skill, and marketing students are often quite productive. But like a lot of things in life, the best marketing students take the easy way out, and they are often burned out.
After a while, marketing students start to develop a self-sabotaging habit. When they start to try to do the marketing they do best in their marketing class, they start to do it on their own time, and that means a lot of time wasted. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s a problem for marketing courses.
I see college marketing instructors, especially those from online design schools, sometimes have a hard time with this. What they are doing looks great in theory, but they spend all their time teaching techniques and tools that don’t really work. Instead of doing the marketing, they have to try and sell it. This is a problem because a lot of marketing skills, like writing copy, can be learned through observing someone else. This is where online design schools come in.
Here I’ve got to disagree with the above. I know a bit of marketing (and copywriting) from school and I think it’s great. However, I’ve noticed that a lot of marketing courses these days require you to spend hours on YouTube or reading books. These courses are designed to teach you how to sell stuff or how to get your name out there. But that’s not what marketing is.