Bydgoszcz, Poland

Marketing and Sales

Marketing i sprzedaż

Master's
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⇑Marketing and Sales at Merito Bydgoszcz

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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⇑Why study Marketing and Sales (Master's) at WSB Merito University in Bydgoszcz?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Merito Bydgoszcz
Why study it:

WSB Merito University in Bydgoszcz runs Marketing and Sales as a four-semester Master's programme taught in English, available as full-time study or in a hybrid format that combines MS Teams with classes on site. It is meant for graduates of a first-cycle degree who want to move from carrying out marketing tasks to steering strategy, projects and sales teams.

Programme: management as the backbone

The curriculum leans towards management as much as marketing. You work through modern management concepts, strategic management, process management and managerial economics, and you learn how to model business processes and improve the way a company operates. Management accounting, forecasting in decision-making and business ethics sit alongside them, so every marketing choice is tied to figures and responsibility.

A second thread is the human side of business. Business negotiations, a managerial competence workshop and psychology of management teach you how to build lasting relationships with clients and partners. You also learn to write a business plan, run a project from planning to delivery and use business software that supports managerial decisions. Study visits to international organisations add first-hand knowledge, and practical aspects of commercial law, entrepreneurship and e-business round off the list.

Specialisation: digital specialisation

The specialisation on offer is Marketing in the Digital Economy, which gives the managerial core of the programme a digital focus.

Placements: placements and paid internships

Professional experience is built into the course:

  • work placements are a standard element of the whole period of study
  • if you already work in a job that matches your field, your employment can count towards the placement requirement
  • you can also apply for a paid internship, with programmes prepared by employers who cooperate with the university and match requirements to specific positions

After graduation: master's thesis and career paths

Your studies end with a Master's thesis that tackles a practical or theoretical problem from your field. You review the literature, carry out your own analyses and put forward your own solution, which you then defend before a committee.

The programme points towards roles such as strategic manager in a large company, process-optimisation consultant, project specialist in IT or services, business data analyst or team leader in marketing and sales. You can also start your own business advisory firm.

Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.

⇑Test: Is Marketing and Sales the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Sales of a product line your team manages have been falling for three quarters in a row. Where do you start?

2. You’re asked to set targets and a commission scheme for a sales team. How do you approach it?

3. How do you approach research on consumer behaviour?

4. A key client threatens to move to a competitor unless you cut your prices. What do you do?

5. The programme is taught in English, and your group includes graduates and professionals from different countries. How do you see that?

6. Marketing says sales ignores its leads; sales says the leads are poor. How do you respond?

7. You have a limited budget and three possible channels for a product launch. How do you choose?

8. Would you like to manage a team of salespeople or marketers?

9. A competitor launches a cheaper copy of your best-selling product. What is your first move?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Marketing and Sales?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Marketing
Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships. Marketing is used to create, keep and satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that Marketing is one of the premier components of Business Management - the other being innovation.
Sales
Sales is activity related to selling or the amount of goods or services sold in a given time period.
Sales
It is impossible to understand the American public without taking into account the tremendous psychological effect of bringing up a generation of people in a daily environment of advertising. It is impossible to escape the advertising man; his sales talk assaults us in the morning newspaper, in the street car, with billboards along the highways, and in his shameless use of the radio. This means that from morning till night, in the midst of our work as in our recreation, we live constantly in an atmosphere of intellectual shoddiness. Every popular prejudice and vulgar conceit is played upon and pandered to in the interests of salesmanship. Everywhere material interests and herd opinion are strengthened to the loss of personal independence. The tendency is to think and speak for effect rather than out of one's inner life. There is a marked decline the ability to play with ideas, or to live the spiritual life for its own sake. Hence a decline in civilization of interest, humor and urbanity. Advertising tends to make mechanized barbarians of us all.
Everett Dean Martin, The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), pp. 29-30
Marketing
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success — along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? (2002)
Sales
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.
Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964), p. 57

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