Marketing. Are You Marketing In The Year We Live In?

Marketing, yes marketing in 2018.

When I started my first Facebook profile in 2004, I was really impressed. I knew this platform was going to open a lot of doors. I was still in a phase of my life where I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I knew that this social platform was going to have something to do with it. By the way, I was 24 with 2 small kids, going through a divorce, and bartending.

Back in 2008–9ish, it was a lot of fun to become “friends” with your favorite brands back then. They didn’t have Facebook business pages, so you could literally be friends with them. I remember firing up my laptop and seeing a notification that one of my favorite brands had responded to a comment I made on one of their posts. That one response forever changed the way I viewed Facebook as more than just a social network to share funny pictures and status updates.

I jumped to Google and searched for universities and colleges that offered marketing degrees online. I wanted to learn anything and everything I could about marketing. I found a college that suited my needs and was adaptable to my schedule. Our internet was spotty at home, but I was able to access and had permission to do my online classes at work. I was working nights in a hospital at a time and often had a couple hours of downtime where my only duty was to answer the phone. 2–4 AM was my sweet spot.

Fast forward a few years later and now a college graduate with a degree in business marketing, but the information I had already soaked in was becoming obsolete. I had to stay ahead of the game if I was going to be successful in marketing and I needed to absorb as much information as possible through whatever means I could find it. I bought excessive amounts of books, glued myself to YouTube videos of advanced marketers and fell in love with audio-books and podcasts. It was a win-win.

Everything I learned I put to practice. I created several pages and tried all of the theories other marketers had taught me. I obsessed with…

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