Professional Marketing Career

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Many diverse experiences have helped to shape my professional marketing career. These positions range from promoting Broadway shows, to marketing at the global children's entertainment brand Pokémon, and managing a girl’s brand called My Princess Academy. While my professional experiences have provided me with a strong real world foundation, I feel that in order to pursue my goal of managing a major entertainment brand, I require the knowledge and training afforded by an MBA program. I am confident that my professional experiences coupled with an MBA will help me achieve a vibrant career in marketing management.

After receiving my undergraduate degrees in theater and business, I began my career with a firm that promoted Broadway shows. I initially focused my efforts on helping theater producers build audiences, sell group tickets and develop theater membership programs. While working on audience development for the Broadway show Avenue Q, I discovered my passion for entertainment marketing, and decided that I wanted to focus on it full time.

With my new found passion, I accepted a marketing position at the flagship store Pokemon Center as the Events Promotions Manager marketing the store to tourists and residents of the tri-state area. My responsibilities included developing and executing marketing plans and working with store management to develop promotions. Additionally, I developed unique promotional events for several new products and video game launches.

Within nine months in my role, I was promoted to a work with the Vice President of Marketing as part of the national marketing team. In this role, I focused on developing national marketing plans to support the launch of the new Pokémon character series across our vid...

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These diverse experiences have helped me hone my passion for children’s marketing and shape my professional career. Each new accomplishment has built upon another and has led me to a position where I manage all the marketing and brand management components of building a new brand. While I continue to garner practical experience in my current role, I feel I have reached the point in my career where a formal education in marketing is essential to my continued success. By undertaking an MBA program, I hope to not only grow in my current role, but also to one day be head of a national children’s entertainment brand. I am confident that my experiences at both Pokémon and My Princess Academy will allow me to contribute a unique perspective to virtual classroom discussions and serve to make me an excellent candidate for the Florida online MBA program.

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