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What is sustainable marketing?

To understand why you should take the Sustainable Marketing Courses you need to know what is sustainable marketing first. Sustainable marketing is undoubtfully a key element of today’s successful campaigns. It is an approach to marketing that takes into account the impact of a company’s products or services on consumers, competitors and the environment. It aims to balance social and environmental concerns, with a commitment to creating a more sustainable and desirable future. This means it focuses on creating solutions that help consumers, employees, and communities around the world. Sustainability marketing encompasses everything from purchasing goods and services using recycled materials.

It can be mistaken for marketing strategies used to handle criticisms about companies creating pollution and misleading customers. It might be also confused with green marketing focusing more narrowly on the environmental impact of a company’s products or services, while sustainable marketing includes similar approaches such as eco-marketing but in a broader scope. Moreover, it is an approach to business that works to reduce the impact we make on the environment and society. This can be done through investing in renewable energy sources, finding innovative ways to use existing resources more effectively, or working with local communities that would benefit from the product. It also helps create long-term shareholder value by ensuring that your company’s products and services will still be in demand years into the future.” Taking sustainable marketing courses will help you gain crucial skills as well as, improve your employability and boost your future career.

Why is it so important?

For business leaders, sustainable marketing is a powerful tool for influencing how the company is perceived among current and potential customers. Sustainability by definition can mean different things to different people, but if you look at some of our favourite brands, then you will notice that sustainability has become an integral part of why many of them stand out from the crowd. But as sustainable marketing impacts business, it can also largely influence the success of sustainability and conservation work:

1. Conservation is about managing people – Boosting sustainable lifestyles and responsible buying choices is vital to help the planet. Moreover, marketing can be a powerful tool to influence consumers to support environmental causes.
2. Charities are facing a huge challenge – people’s trust in them has declined. Therefore an understanding of the consumer is central to marketing and is focused heavily throughout our courses.
3. Sustainability is incredibly competitive – so stand out with a recognised qualification!
4. Marketing helps you to think strategically – when we understand the external forces of an organisation can we make informed decisions. Therefore, strategic thinking is one of the most highly sought-after skills by sustainability professionals (and employers in general).
5. We’ve all seen bad marketing – but sustainability deserves better!