Looking for the Best Marketing Jobs? Hold On. I Got Some Advice…

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Looking for the Best Marketing Jobs? Hold On. I Got Some Advice…

Looking for the best marketing jobs out there? Maybe you are a college grad with eyes full of shiny hope, or maybe you are a do it yourself-er and went to the school of hard knocks. No matter where you are coming from, what your background is, or level of experience, the world of marketing is an attractive place for the ambitious.

As far as I know, there is no other type of business out there outside of marketing where so much can happen and change – and yet stay so principally the same.

Now, I am a firm believer in working online from home. However, not everyone who wants to get involved with marketing have this goal. Some people truly DO love an office environment (may someone help them one day!).

So where the heck do you find the best marketing jobs? Outside of a quick Google search, Monster search, or LinkedIn stalking session, here is some of the best locations to find the best marketing jobs around.

The Top 10 Cities to Get the Best Marketing Jobs

Here is the short list of places that actually have growing job sectors for marketing and advertising:

New York, New York
Oakland, California
San Jose, California
San Francisco, California
Long Beach, California
Boston, Massachusetts
Los Angeles, California
Chicago, Illinois
Washington, D.C
Seattle, Washington

While some of these cities have had a long history in the advertising world, many of these places are still just getting their feet wet in the advertising world.

More and more, if you are wanting the BEST kind of marketing jobs, you need to focus on using digital assets. What do I mean by digital assets? Well, this is not your grandma’s advertising during the Golden Girl’s commercial breaks anymore.

Digital assets are things like blogs (like this! Hey! You can learn blogging here!), along with blogging is website design, search engine optimization, social media utilization, and a ton of other really awesome marketing verticals.

The Real Question is, Do the Best Marketing Jobs Beat Owning a Marketing Business?

In my opinion… noway.
Owning a marketing business is way more fun, relaxing, exciting and invigorating than working for the “man”. When you own your own marketing business, you get to decide what kind of hours you want to work with, what kind of products you work with, and really how much money you want to make.

The great thing about focusing your marketing knowledge to the internet is that you can literally work wherever you have an internet connection. Not only that, but you can literally be making money while you sleep considering your websites never need to go to sleep.