Event Marketing Specialist

Career Area: Marketing and Public Relations

Occupation Group: Marketing Specialists

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Event Marketing Specialist earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $43,065

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $46,419

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Organizes and handles implementation of events in which a business meets directly with potential customers to market products or services. May help set up marketing booths at trade shows, concerts, sporting events, or town fairs.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Event Marketing Specialist is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Creativity: Mental characteristic that allows a person to think outside of the box, which results in innovative or different approaches to a particular task.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Marketing: Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
• Event Planning: Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of large scale events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. The process of planning and coordinating the event is usually referred to as event planning and which can include budgeting, scheduling, site selection, acquiring necessary permits, coordinating transportation and parking, arranging for speakers or entertainers, arranging decor, event security, catering, coordinating with third party vendors, and emergency plans.
• Social Media: Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Event Marketing Specialist that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Instagram: Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately.
• Marketing Programs: With respect to marketing, it means the plan with respect to the various marketing activities taken by a company to increase sales.
• Social Content: Working experience of Social Content, which involves the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
• Social Media Marketing: Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.
• Strategic Marketing: Experience defining and performing marketing activities that are consistent with a company s plans and use of resources over time to achieve it's communicated objectives

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Marketing Coordinator
• Event Marketer
• Marketing Specialist
• Marketing Event Coordinator
• Event Marketing Specialist

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• Event Marketing Manager