B.B.A. Business Administration - Marketing

Marketing is the study and practice of strategies to ensure that products, ideas, and services are embraced by end users. This includes matters related to the pricing, development, promotion, and distribution of products, ideas, and services. They are the ultimate promoters of an organization or individual’s brand and strongly influence competitive positioning. Marketers are multifaceted, understanding complex areas like statistics, search engine optimization, and data analytics, but are likewise effective in managing areas like messaging and design.

Marketers have to use data, research, innovation, and editorial, visual, and multi-media creativity to get people to follow a desired course of action. Particularly in light of the internet, social media, and mobile technology, marketers have more opportunity—and competition—to reach prospective customers, clients, recipients of information, or users of a service. Online shopping models mean that prices change constantly. Advertising and other forms of promotion have to push through a cacophony of messaging and images. Products can be customized for each customer with a few mouse clicks. Distributors are experimenting with drone technology and driverless vehicles to deliver products directly to a customer’s door within minutes of an order; completely upending the traditional in-store model through which most purchases have been made. Marketers lead organizations into new areas for enterprise and maximize the outcomes of an organization’s ongoing activities.

Professionals with marketing backgrounds are skilled in understanding customer needs and influencing their perceptions. They often pursue careers involving advertising design and placement or research and development, or as strategists, entrepreneurs, analysts, customer service managers, salespersons, copy writers, promoters, event directors, merchandisers, salespersons, public relations managers, or brand managers.

Marketing students at FVSU earn a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in marketing.

Bachelor of Business Administration degree programs are administered through the Business Administration Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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