Veterinary techs are the right-hand man (or more often, woman) for veterinary doctors. Just as nurses assist physicians and medical doctors, veterinary techs perform basic tasks to help the vet and keep the practice running smoothly. Worlds paper So who is cut out for this job? If any of the following sounds like it could be a good match for you, veterinary tech might be an ideal career!
Vet techs love animals. First and foremost, techs must have a passion for animals. You’ll be working with them on a daily basis, and you have to really care about the work in order to stay mentally focused and deliver the highest quality of care. If you have fears about aggressive animals or don’t want to deal with certain kinds of animals, vet tech might not be the career for you.
Veterinary techs can control their emotions. As a tech, you’re guaranteed to see a lot of happiness, but you’re also going to be exposed to a lot of heartbreak. You may need to euthanize animals or deal with distressed owners, or even worse, irresponsible owners who don’t care about their pets as much as you do. In order to be good at this job you need to learn how to stay on top of your emotions and act professionally. If you are susceptible to strong emotions, you might need to reconsider being a vet tech!
Vet techs want a fulfilling career. If the thought of sitting at a desk behind a computer every day or working in a stuffy office doesn’t sound very appealing, you might be a great candidate for a vet tech. This is a fast-paced, high-responsibility job that is very rewarding and fulfilling for most people who have their hearts in it. The satisfaction of leaving work and knowing that you made a difference is a big benefit in this career.
If any of this sounds like it may fit you, it’s worth reading more about this popular occupation. Demand for certified veterinary techs is always on the rise, and a decent salary can be made as well. Good luck to you!
Top 2 Tech Marketer Challenges (and Solutions)
If you’re a tech marketer, you’re already aware of the particularly difficult challenges you face. Sure, all marketers have difficult challenges, but the ever-changing tech world introduces new complexity to the marketing mix. After all, the technology industry is growing and changing so fast that no one can possibly keep up. No one, of course, except for the tech marketer, who is not only charged with keeping up, but also staying one step ahead of the marketplace.
LinkedIn recently published an article discussing some of the top challenges experienced by tech marketers today. Here are two of those challenges, along with actionable information you can use to start overcoming them now.
Challenge #1: Identifying the decision-maker?
All marketers know how important it is to identify and understand the decision-maker. Without this knowledge, it’s difficult to build a successful marketing strategy to win them over.
The difficulty with tech marketing, though, is that the decision-maker isn’t a single person. Instead, it’s now a cross-functional group comprised of IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance, and more.
This complexity makes it all the more important to fully understand the needs, challenges, and motivations of each group member and appeal to them directly.
A recent LinkedIn study of groups that hold decision-making power over IT and technology purchases discovered that nurturing prospects with informative content is a vital part of the sales process. Why? Because members of these groups are typically not ready to talk to a sales rep until they have consumed at least five pieces of “relevant, unbranded, non-sales focused content”.
Additionally, LinkedIn’s post highlights the importance of producing content for every role on this cross-functional buying committee… at every stage in the buying process. Because, as the post explains, the tech decision-maker is a group, not an individual, marketers have a responsibility to reach out to and engage with every one of them. You never know who will make that first contact, who will lead the buying committee, or who will have the most influence over the other members.
That’s why it’s critical to have a strategy for how to reach, engage and ultimately convert every member of the group at each stage in the buying process. It sounds like a lot of work, yes, but tech marketers have the opportunity to influence every member of the buying committee and begin to win them over through always-on education. What’s “always-on”? It’s content that provides valuable, educational information at every stage of the buying process – anytime the users may want it. When you consider that, according to the Content Marketing Institute, 63% of tech buyers are more likely to consider vendors that take an always-on approach, it’s worth the effort.
Challenge #2: Creating Engaging Content
According to the Content Marketing Institute, 93% of tech marketers use content marketing. However, they also say that “creating engaging content” has been a top challenge for the last five years. What does this tells us? While tech marketers see value in content marketing, they also have limited time and resources, which keeps them from creating content that is as successful as it really could be.
So how do you compete in the saturated tech marketplace? According to LinkedIn’s post, build a reliable toolbox. If you think about it, there are more content marketing tools and resources available today than ever before – many of which are free or very reasonably priced. Marketers have more options available now than ever before to design, create, write, build and develop on their own – free of any outside support. Just think about what has done for marketers!
If you’re a tech marketer, you understand the pressure to stay ahead of the ridiculously fast-paced world of innovation. It’s our job to not only reach out to, but also engage some of the brightest, most forward-thinking minds in the industry. Thankfully, there are tools and resources to help make it possible.