21 Things Marketers hate doing

  1. Not being able to develop campaigns for their brands due to budget restraints (while having aggressive sales targets)
  2. Explaining to the Management Team that ”Likes” are not more important than engagement and that they certainly don’t mean that people love us
  3. Explaining how digital ads work when they don’t really understand fully themselves
  4. Telling their Agency the creative is off track
  5. Not having reliable “sell out” data to be able to analyse category trends and to really have an idea on how their brand(s) is doing
  6. Trade visits with the boss (some hate leaving their desks period)
  7. Discussions with accountants on ROI of their advertising spend
  8. Analysing numbers of any kind
  9. Stock Management
  10. Having to go to many levels for approvals
  11. Purchase Orders of any kind
  12. Explaining SEO to the MD when they really don’t understand it themselves
  13. Coming back from holidays
  14. Telling an agency they didn’t win the pitch, although you thought they should have
  15. Explaining a post to the MD that only Tik Tokkers would get
  16. Taking a call from their Agency on an ad they placed directly with the media
  17. Processing agency and other supplier invoices for payment
  18. Getting out of bed
  19. Telling a freelancer that the payment for a job they did 5 months ago is not ready
  20. Price increases
  21. Trade and marketing spend discussions with the sales team