As I have informed you in former articles, marketing knowledge and it’s implementation is evolving. Marketing science is growing as a consequence of the environment progress, such as consumer’s behavior, technology, and others.

If you want to get a better opportunity in your marketing career, you must improve your marketing knowledge and if you a beginner in marketing, I will inform you list of marketing subject that you have to learn to make your life better.

Why updating your marketing knowledge can help you and your business better? By updating your marketing knowledge, you will have marketing skills. Both skills marketing soft skill and hard skill are important. Through learning and implementing these skills, you have a better chance to grow. You will be known as marketing expert, you will have a good personal branding, and your life will be changed. One of standards that make people live in the good condition is changing and growing. The conclusion is, mastering marketing knowledge can help you get a higher and better chance to grow and this makes you live a better life than before.

So, I will continue on marketing knowledge and science subjects. I will list marketing knowledge that you have to learn and master. I do not put those in order, but I will write based on the things I remember first, then other subject, step by step.

Here are marketing knowledge you have to learn and master

1. Marketing Information system

There are a lot of data which are gathered from anywhere. The decision maker need appropriate data only, not all of the data they get. After getting the data, there must be some technology, procedure or tools, so that people can process and analyze the data to become helpful information. And finally, they can decide some strategic decision based on this information.

I have written about this, some of them are: marketing information system software , steps to implement marketing information system , marketing decision support system

2. Social media marketing

This marketing method has been growing since social network apps has a significant growth. This marketing method use a social media network apps for the marketing channel. Marketer utilize social media as a marketing and communication media.

You can see more information about social media marketing basic information here:

Pinterest marketing , social media marketing team , twitter marketing , Linkedin marketing , social media marketing tools , and many more.

3. Marketing analytics

This subject is closely related to subject number one. As you have already known that marketing decision is based on data. It is called data-driven decision.  So you must know the basics of analytics.

When doing analysis, you must know the tools or software to make your job easy. You can read marketing analysis with pivot table Microsoft excel for the example.

4. Mobile marketing

This subject is the same spirit of digital marketing. Mobile marketing is subset of digital marketing.

Everyone has a mobile device in their pocket. This is a new  channel of marketing which you should consider to learn and implement.

Some information, such as: how to reach more prospect with mobile marketing , the differences between mobile marketing with traditional marketing , and others can be found here.

But, if you want to start, this article can be beneficial for you. You can read mobile marketing for beginners  that contains basic and fundamental info about mobile marketing.

5. Public relation

The essence of public relation is a communication between you and public , such as: information regarding your new product or new service, respond to consumer, deal with the issue that you are facing with consumer, and so forth.

You can start learning about PR by knowing what is Public Relation exactly , a basic guide to integrated marketing communication , and learn more from here or other resources.

6. Marketing metrics

As a marketer, you must do a marketing performance measurement and manage it then give some report to decision maker.

You must learn how to set KPI or key performance indicator for your marketing activities, how to monitor it, how to track and measure it based on your defined metrics.

With this knowledge, you will learn and can implement to set the right metrics for interpreting marketing performance result.

Sample of marketing metrics

a. Ads placement, the metrics are: reach, impressions, cost per thousand, etc

b. Consumer engagement, the metrics are: awareness, subscriber, purchased, etc.

c. Search engine marketing, the metrics are: traffic, position, conversion, cost per click, page view, etc.

d. Social media marketing, the metrics are: follower, reach, mention, etc.

You can read basic information at marketing metrics made simple here

7. Content marketing

Before starting further, you should know definition of content marketing . In this article, you will read what the content marketing is and easy steps to develop a content.

In the essential information about content marketing , you will know everything related to how to create outstanding content and how to spread content quickly or viral effect.

In addition, you can enhance your skill in copy-writing, basic design, edit simple video, how to create a good infographic, and so on.

In the next step, you can enrich your capability to make outstanding content that has high conversion.

8.  Inbound marketing

It is important to understand inbound marketing thoroughly . But before that, may be you can also read what is inbound marketing and some information about inbound marketing from Wikipedia.  In the Wikipedia, there are some external links which are related to inbound marketing.

9. Marketing research

Marketing research is one of the prerequisite to become a good marketer. So, this is a fundamental thing to know for marketing beginners.

One thing that you must know is step to perform marketing research .

Marketing research skill is strongly related to marketing analytic. You have to know basic analysis, like analysis method, basic statistic, analysis tools, reporting, and so forth.

10. Entrepreneurship introduction

Knowing the market gaps in your industry, understanding your product is needed or not, and understanding the consumer, are fundamental step in running your business. It is needed entrepreneurship to perform it. The conclusion is, entrepreneurship is the spirit that must be owned by marketer.

So you have to learn entrepreneurship and implement it to your daily life.

You have to know the entrepreneur related things below:

- Entrepreneur and entrepreneurship definition

- Entrepreneur’s behaviors that must be possessed

- Basic business process

- Understand opportunities and perform idea-generation to make it works.

- Understand to utilize some resources In your business

- Inter-relationship with people

- Financial management

- Business management

- Time management

And many more.

I do not want to limit the marketing knowledge that you have to master in this article. If I do not mention some important marketing knowledge, it does not mean that those are not important. Beside marketing knowledge above, there are many knowledge and skills that you have to master, for examples: email marketing , digital marketing , business to business marketing (b2b), marketing knowledge management, marketing software or marketing tools, search engine marketing , and so on.

The essence is, if you master some of the marketing knowledge above and you focus on it, you will become an expert.  Afterwards your life becomes better.