Courtney Siedentopf's profile answers

The movie about my life would closely mirror "Little Miss Sunshine." A little odd... definitely funny... but truly endearing because of the wonderful people in it.

My favorite Web sites are Yahoo! Finance, uBid.com, and Craigstlist.com.

I have ambitious goals of turning my yard into a Northwest Oasis. So for fun, I am learning landscaping and changing my black thumb to green. =O)

My boss would describe me as:
* passionate (sometimes a little too much)
* dependable
* intelligent
* a good communicator
* requires little guidance
* innovator
* solid contributor

Coworkers would descibe me as:
* smart
* humorous
* flexible
* a good listener
* problem-solver
* determined
* dilligent
* helpful
* responsive
* reliable

I am most passionate about marketing. I thoroughly enjoy strategizing how to best sell a product or service to a customer and then implementing the strategy through marketing/advertising tools such as commercials, collateral, the Internet, etc.

The path I took to my current career was quite straight. I graduated with a degree in Mass & Organizational Communicaitons and while in my senior year took on two internships, one with an advertising agency (marketing) and one with the American Heart Association (PR). I knew early on that advertising/marketing was my passion and I took every step afforded to me to make my goal a reality. The internships gave me an added edge in the real experience I gained and the contacts/references I made through performing exceptional work....

The advice I have for someone who wants a job like mine is;
* be entrepreneurial
* be patient
* study marketing & advertising
* be passionate
* be determined
* enjoy TV

My first job out of college was for an ABC TV station whose parent company also owned five radio stations. Here I learned the basics in producing commercials for both TV and radio which because one is a sight medium and the other a sound, they are very much different when writing the scripts and using sound for effect. I also worked with some of the brightest minds at Disney/ABC with co-promotions as well as many other well-known studios in co-promoting their products with ours. My writing and audience analysis and synthesis skills were strengthend tremendously from my five years with these stations....

this is probably the most difficult of questions to answer, not because I lack an answer but because I have too many. I am keenly interested in the technology sector. The advancement of technology as it enables consumers to do more for anywhere with fewer and fewer devices (maybe one day even a single unit). So I would say that outside my profession of marketing in the media industry, I would love to work more in the technology marketing arena....