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do lots of tasks that in most cases are not related in any way to each other.
If it’s that important, how come ends up being a ‘does it all’ department?
What are the real duties of a marketing department?
In this post you'll find 10 tasks that are the responsibility of the marketing
department. All of them have a crucial importance in ensuring the survival of
your company.
Nowadays there are three types of marketing tools that must have a
presence in every marketing department:
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6. Innovate
Customers need to be surprised, and every day, given the higher offer,
they are more demanding with this. The marketing department should work
on new promotions, affiliate programs, customer retention techniques,
improvements in the conversion of their messages and actions…
It’s not a matter of inventing entirely different disruptive actions; you’ll find
innovation in the small details and in the continuous improvement.
A chain is as weak as its weakest link. It doesn’t matter that the commercial
or production department are doing an impeccable job, if the marketing
department fails, the entire company will fail and the efforts of other
departments will be in vain. That is why the marketing department must
ensure that their actions are aligned with the overall objectives of the
company and that they report the work they are doing.
A good way for better knowing the customer is that all departments that
have more direct contact with the customer shall be working with the
empathy maps.
At the end of the day, planning is the only way to achieve the set
objectives.
Final thoughts
By reading these 10 obligations, you’ll be thinking “how can I find time for
that?”.
If you glance at what takes more time in your business, surely you’ll find
that repetitive tasks with little added value occupy the most. For this reason
it’s important that you remove these tasks from roots, otherwise you’ll fail to
accomplish the tasks that a marketing department should really dedicate
it’s time to: reach, attract and retain customers.
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