Marketing / Entrepreneurial advice needed

by MarkyJ
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I’m a business student on placement year doing mostly marketing duties for a Biotech company.
But I feel I need to be doing a lot more to hit my own entrepreneurial ambitions and increase my marketing ability.
Being a marketing group, would anyone have advice or what I should be doing to get more marketing / entrepreneurial experience? How do I get more involved in the wider community? What did you do? Should I find an experienced mentor?
Thank You
#advice #entrepreneurial #marketing #needed
  • Profile picture of the author ACandi
    Hi Marky J,

    Online marketing is a different breed of the marketing being taught for offline business studies. You mentioned getting an expereinced mentor. I think that's an excellent idea, if you can afford one - top quality online mentors charge thousands!

    A good alternative is to sign up for a high quality online marketing training programme. Topics should include the different ways to earn money online, the skills and tools needed for different types of online money making methods, business plans for online success, and also include 'due diligence' methods to avoid online scams.

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  • Profile picture of the author neshaword
    Marky, I think that you already have an interesting position. So, what do you think about a blog? This could allow you to examine your situation and experience. You can invite people to learn or share some new things. You can also use this material for some of your future books or eBooks. I mean, there are so many things you can benefit with a simple blog. So, give it a thought. Good luck! N
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    I can tell you the common approach in your situation: to kill two birds with one stone and use an entrepreneurial endeavour to satisfy both your personal and your career ambitions. From my experience, students like yourself develop projects as much for their résumé as for their entrepreneurial spirits. Working online may or may not be for you, you see. On the off-chance that your future career lies elsewhere, you should consider a résumé project. It may represent a new career path; or it may open doors in the offline world.

    As far as how you do it goes, that depends on your own inclinations and your strengths. There are hundreds of IM fields for you to consider. Thousands. In your shoes, I'd start out by simply absorbing. And you actually came to the right place: WF. Consider WF as a university library, shelf after shelf of books. You can't possibly read all of the books in a single sitting but you can certainly begin to browse. But there is browsing and browsing intelligently. When you leaf through the subjects, do so with your strengths and weaknesses firmly in mind, always asking yourself, "Can I do this? Would I enjoy it?"

    You'll eventually hit on the right field. Pay per click. Blogging. Viral marketing. Whatever. And once you hit the right field, and if you do have an entrepreneurial mind, how you engage yourself in that field will begin to become apparent. You might, for instance, hit on viral marketing, and having done so you might consider your strength for writing and your knowledge and passion for biotechnology and decide to develop an online viral magazine on the subject. You'll have a concept; next up, you'll need a plan. You'll break down the concept into its component parts - viral marketing, article writing, Wordpress CMS (possibly), and so forth - and learn each aspect in order to bring your plan together and the project to fruition.

    You'll end up with the ideal business for you. Warriors might hop into this thread and hurl business models your way, and it would actually be helpful for you, but only in so far as absorption goes, because a model that works for me may not work for you. The trick is to find your own ideal model, or one of them, and then dig in, make it happen.

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  • Profile picture of the author Profit Traveler
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    Hey MarkyJ!

    I think we all have information in our heads that others would find valuable that saves them time or effort and prevents them from making a mistake that we have experience from.

    If you could create a Resource that helps others even if you knew relatively very little on the subject but gathered extensive research and or case studies on a subject that would help a certain demographic/niche/group of people it could certainly become a rewarding experience.

    Once you are marketing your own product or even affiliating with a product/service that someone else created you are becoming both a more experienced marketer and entrepreneur.

    You have to tie together creativity, commitment, organization and discipline because once the money is rolling in that is just the beginning. What you do at that point will decide if you come to a screaming halt as a one hit wonder or actually build an empire.

    Also check out one of my other favorite forums TheFastLaneForum created by the author of the book Millionaire Fastlane. Lots of entrepreneur marketers sharing their life/business experiences.

    Art
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