Skills
Strategy
management
- Market analysis, including market sizing and SWOT
- Brand position development, including sub-brand or sector-level positions
- Business and marketing plan development, including account-based marketing planning
- Investor development (VC, angel and partner pitching at seed, growth and mezzanine levels)
Research
management
- External and internal factor analysis via executive and large-customer debriefs
- Competitive and comparative benchmark and follow-on studies
- Virtual and in-person focus-group development
- Expert-panel development and maintenance
- Pulse-testing via social media
Planning
management
- Enterprise to function level
- Strategic to tactical
- Close ties to sales quota, market development, brand/product acceptance and investor targets
Media
management
- Analytics, planning and negotiating
- Consumer broadcast and narrowcast media, including geographic microtargeting
- General-business media, including technology trade
- Mobile media, including geofencing / in-app
- Search engine marketing
Creative
management
- Copywriting
- Graphic design
- Identity system development
- Advertising (general-business and trade display)
- Collateral (corporate, solution, and technical brochures, catalogs, folders / binders, newsletters)
- Direct mail (envelope / card, single / serial, creative / list tests)
- Print production management
Event
management
- Tradeshow management
- Premium-event management
- Speaker calls management
- Event creative and production
- Promotional tie-ins
- Theatre creative and production
- Seminar creative development
Channel / partner management
- B2B, B2G, and public-interest
- E-Commerce programs / systems
- Two-stage demand-pull programs
- Retail support programs
- Branded co-marketing programs
Interactive
management
- Social media management, including content and engagement management
- Campaign and relationship management
- Live and offline webcasting
- Optical content development and production
Editorial
management
- Editorial opportunities management
- News releases
- Main-body editorial content
- Press and analyst relationship management / tours
Software
proficiencies
- Social media and relationship analytics
- Page and image composition
- Rich media development
- Workgroup productivity