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Marketing, Sales & Service
The job of the Marketing, Sales and Service industry is to advertise and promote products so customers want to buy them. People who work in this industry use their creativity, imagination, and persuasive skills to get people to want and purchase the products they seek to sell. Using today’s diverse and powerful communication tools and improved transportation systems, it is now possible to market, service and sell products to anyone anywhere in the world.
iNformation
What interests you?
- Persuading others
- Being creative
- Interacting with others
- Making presentations
Check out these careers:
![Marketing and Distribution](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-career1-e1582870271130.jpg)
$11,995 - $38,709
![Retail Store Operations and Management](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-career2-retail-better-e1582870294912.jpg)
$57,178 - $74,990
![Business and Commerce in a shopping mall](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-career3-commerce-e1582870311714.jpg)
$30,201 - $42,726
![International Business and Trade](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-career4-international-e1582870330455.jpg)
$10,114 - $42,726
![Search Marketing Strategists in a meeting](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-career5-concept-e1582870344430.jpg)
$66,410 - $117,070
![Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-career6-analyst-e1582870360638.jpg)
$46,360 - $88,680
Explore
Do you...
- Like to call people & talk on the phone
- Like making presentations
- Have an entrepreneurial mindset
- Shop for yourself and others
Gain Some Experience
- Sell products for a fundraiser
- Have a yard sale or bake sale
- Try new products and use your ability to analyze and respond to emerging trends
- Help people buy products
- Practice selling the merits of a product or ideas
- Arrange flowers
- Design &/or model clothing
![team brainstorms while looking at a laptop screen](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-brainstorm-e1582263628720.jpg)
![marketing team comes up with ideas in a meeting](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-idea-meeting-e1582641665594.jpg)
![small business management](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-management-e1582641746563.jpg)
![sales sign in shopping mall](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-retail-e1582641861375.jpg)
![salesman trying to sell golf clubs to customer](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-sales-e1582641935460.jpg)
![marketing assistant writes ideas on whiteboard](/assets/marketing/images/marketing-whiteboard-e1582263744634.jpg)
School
Related Programs at Local Colleges
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Work
Career Interviews
Let’s find out what people working in the careers you want to explore have to say. Download the Career Interview worksheet (PDF).