# What's my title? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619 "2010-01-19T21:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/21 "2010-01-20T00:00:57Z")
Creative Director of Marketing ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/22 "2010-01-20T00:36:54Z")
Bikini Inspector ---
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/23 "2010-01-20T01:38:50Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > …the consensus is that I’m squeezer of the creative juices.… Juicer. Marketing Catalyst. Paradigm Up-shifter. Minister Without Portfolio. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/24 "2010-01-20T02:03:01Z")
Special Expediter. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/25 "2010-01-20T02:10:35Z")
Catalyst - I make things happen. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/26 "2010-01-20T02:12:53Z")
Total Product Synergy (TPS) Facilitator ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/27 "2010-01-20T02:31:20Z")
**Strategic Marketing Manager** The company is not too small to have “managers”. You are the first, someone has to be, might as well be you. You all probably matrix-manage anyway based on your descriptions. No matter what, do not put just a department name where you want a title. People you interact with will use the title to judge your responsibilties and to see if you are the right person for the assistance they need. If you don’t interact with people, then you don’t need a card. And if you don’t want to be in “marketing” for some visceral reason, and you would rather retract internally, please consider if that is really good for what sounds like a small (but growing?) film production and/or distribution company, or something related to that. Nothing is carved in stone in a situation like that - you may be the Marketing person only until you can hire your replacement, and then you become the CEO’s right hand man for strategy if you can swing it, but for now, it definitely sounds like “Strategic Marketing Manager” is a good title for you And one thing, whatever you do, don’t go to Sundance without sufficient cards. They are cheap, you won’t have time to reprint while there without giving up valuable contacts, and it is just sooo amateur to not have them (and you will see plenty who don’t). You can always print a new batch with a new title when you get back if you realize a better title while you are there. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/28 "2010-01-20T02:37:39Z")
Director of Marketing ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/29 "2010-01-20T05:13:47Z")
[ul] [li]Head of Creative Dept[/li][li]Marketing & Design[/li][li]Chief Doing Stuff Guy[/li][li]The Go-To Man[/li][li]Gets Shit Done[/li][li]Prettifier and Thinking Type[/li][li]What She Said[/li][li]The Best[/li][li]Marketing Head Manager of Creative and Decision-Making Department, and Tea Boy[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/30 "2010-01-20T05:20:27Z")
Chief Marketing Officer Assistant Vice President for Marketing ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/31 "2010-01-20T05:30:32Z")
Do not go with Blogger whatever you do.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/32 "2010-01-20T05:31:08Z")
Program Director or Program Manager ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/33 "2010-01-20T06:32:23Z")
Charter Member? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/34 "2010-01-20T06:42:40Z")
Joker, Toker, and Midnight Smoker. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/35 "2010-01-20T07:19:06Z")
Don’t put a title. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/36 "2010-01-20T07:56:19Z")
> [@](#): > > The company is too small for me to be Manager or Director; I’d be the only person with such a title. Right now I’m leaning toward Marketing and Programming. Bland as that is. A manager is not necessarily a supervisor. If you’re the guy who’s doing the marketing and programming, then you’re managing those areas for your business. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/37 "2010-01-20T09:02:01Z")
> [@not\_alice](#): > > **Strategic Marketing Manager** I like this. The “strategic” shows that you’re about thinking and planning. And as **Little Nemo** said, it doesn’t sound like a supervisory role, but rather that you’re in charge of a particular aspect. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/38 "2010-01-20T13:40:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Program Director > or > Program Manager I had a job very like lissener’s when I was in college. I was the “Program Director, Bijou, University of Minnesota Student Unions” (Well, it wasn’t a job, it was a student leadership position. But I got a full ride scholarship out of it). ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/39 "2010-01-20T13:50:11Z")
I agree with **ShibbOleth**. Since you don’t have a title, why invent one for the business card? What would that accomplish? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-title/525619/40 "2010-01-20T14:10:59Z")
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