Montclair State Marketing Club

We are happy to share that the MSU Marketing Club and members are feeling good as we wrap up the spring semester with smiles on our faces. The semester started strong with presentations and activities based on content creation, social media platforms, and digital marketing tools. We welcomed six of our club members (Nadia Bubay, Alison Jackson, Diana Perez, Stephanie Cafaro, Stephanie Rivas, and Kylie Irizarry) onto our social media team to create engaging content for our Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn pages. Then, we embraced our creativity at our Vision Board Making Event, where free art supplies were distributed to help our members cut, paste, and draw their vision for their future selves. After Spring Break, we were honored to host two amazing guest speakers, Dr. Glenn Gorab, and Jordan Banafsheha. Dr. Glenn Gorab expertly pitched his creation, “ID Spot”, to our club members and entrusted our club to supply him with ideas on how to market his product. Jordan Banafsheha provided us with valuable insights into the marketing industry, from his experiences with performance marketing to opening his own digital marketing firm! Our members applied what they learned throughout the semester and put it into practice at our Shark Tank Event in early April. We would like to thank DECA once again for collaborating with us on the event. Students formed teams and brainstormed ideas for a product that would appeal to their target audience and pitched it to our sharks, the President of our Marketing Club (Leila Elashmawy) and the President of DECA (Adrian V.). Congratulations to the winners of the Shark Tank Event (Sydney Huttemann, Tiffany Farias and Evan Spitzberg) In Mid-April, we hosted our E-Board elections to find our 2024-2025 Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Program Director. Shoutout to all of our E-board candidates for putting together amazing campaign presentations, and congratulations to the newest members of our E-Board (Amaya Davidson, Esmeralda Ignacio, Mahdi Naqvi, and Nadia Bubay). After all the hard work this semester, we played fun games and snacked on delicious donuts at our End of the Semester Celebration. Congratulations to our top-point earners (Alison Jackson, Nadia Bubay, and Kailey Bondarowicz) who were rewarded with a Nintendo Switch, Bluetooth Speaker, and Bluetooth Projector. Our goal for this semester was to create a community of students from different majors and equip them with skills needed to succeed post-grad. All majors are welcome to join us in the Fall semester every Wednesday in SBUS 110 from 1:30 - 2:30 PM. Let’s grow together, as professionals and people. Thank you for supporting our little Marketing Club family.

Shark Tank is one of the most popular business related reality TV shows where entrepreneurs present their inventions/ideas to five of the biggest business titans out there. Individuals go out on a limb in hopes that a shark will invest in their dreams. Shark Tank is also great practice and inspiration on how one should market their own ideas. This past week during our general body meeting for the Montclair State Marketing Club, members collaborated with DECA to host our very own Shark Tank event! This event was the perfect opportunity for our members to not only role play the beloved TV show, but put their business skills to the test and compete with other students. They came together in teams to present their own product that could be targeted towards college students. Similar to the TV show, each team gave a pitch of their product to the heads of MSMC and DECA, who role played as the sharks. A special thank you to DECA for partnering with us to make this event happen and the Feliciano School of Business - Montclair State University for providing us with our meeting place and refreshments. MSMC makes it a priority to shape our members into business professionals and covers a wide array of topics to help students post grad. Our Shark Tank event was truly a worthwhile time for all who attended. All majors are welcome to join us every Wednesday in SBUS 110 from 1:30 - 2:30 PM to see how they may succeed in the marketing industry!