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HI THERE,

I’m Reka, marketing professional, first-time blogger, a huge stand-up comedy and Star Wars fan and someone who believes that creativity and being organized can go hand in hand.

With over 10 years of experience in many fields of marketing such as in social media, branding, design & digital project management, product marketing and PR, I  have helped companies, from micro to multinationals with wildly different profiles, to strengthen their relationship with their customers, make their first steps or expand online.

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2009 – 2013

The beginning of my journey: PR, university and the smell of french fries

My first love was PR

I still remember the moment when we met first: I was about 16 sitting at the huge round table at my parent’s house when my dad arrived from a workshop he’d attended. He started to talk about a presentation – performed by a PR professional.

It made me feel like – Yes, I’ve found it! That’s what I want to do!

As there were no majors dedicated to PR in Hungary back then, I started studying Social Studies in 2009 and Communication in 2010. Also, I started my “career” at McDonald’s – Like two universities wouldn’t be enough for me  🙂

My first internship at MorphoCom

After 1.5 years, I was just so fed up with the constant smell of cooking oil in a job that had nothing to do with my passion, as well as waking up at 5 o’clock or working 8 hours after school, so I quit. It was time to find a job that fitted me.

That’s how I ended up at MorphoCom in 2011 as a PR intern, taking my first professional steps in working with clients like Dell, Apple, Noreg, Huawei or OKI.

I got my two Bachelor's degrees in 2013...

…and I was about to figure out the next step. My blind love for PR slowly started to fade away and turned into a friendship – instead of a lifelong commitment.

Life as an Account Manager

So, I went with the flow and became an Account Manager at Lampyon. During these 2.5 years working at a web design & development company, I learnt more about websites, design and branding than ever before, and formed an amazing friendship there. Furthermore, I’ve learnt what it really means to be obsessed with your customers’ needs.

Understanding a customer’s needs and transforming them into the result they were looking for requires patience, the right set of communication skills and a proactive mindset – all spiced up with a bit of magic ; )

Knowing that our most profitable and honoured customer – a German multinational pharmaceutical company – has been satisfied with me and invited me to their office twice, give me a reason to say, and I dare to say it; that I am jolly good with customers.

Oh, did I mentioned that I worked mostly with the marketing department of that company? Yep!

Marketing: the love of my life

This is how I fell in love for the second time – this time with marketing. So in 2015, I went back to university.

I received my Marketing Master’s in 2016 and a few months later I started working with OKI.

2013 – 2016

Finding my true passion and getting my MSc in Marketing

2016 – 2019

Looking after a whole country’s marketing activities and starting my blog

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Marketing and PR Consultant for OKI

For almost 3 years I was responsible for co-ordinating all marketing- and PR-related activities in the Hungarian market for OKI. This included budget planning, managing social media platforms and promotions, organizing partner events, creating newsletters and many other tasks that I loved.

Why have I created a marketing blog?

I’m always up for a new challenge, and what can be more exciting than blogging about topics I’m passionate about, learning to create and operate a website and smiling tiredlessly at the fun little banners I’m making.

Since my first internship, I’ve been the go-to marketing person for all my friends when it comes to marketing, professional communication and career advice. I’ve always loved supporting others, but I only decided to finally start a blog after I helped my father build his company’s online presence.

Because I’ve always aimed for more and I believe I can help YOU to achieve your goals too – and also to give myself the pleasure of challenging my knowledge in a new field as well as to have fun!

Since my first internship, I’ve been the go-to marketing person for all my friends when it comes to marketing, professional communication and career advice. I’ve always loved supporting others, but I only decided to finally start a blog after I helped my father build his company’s online presence.

I’ve realised, that when it comes to business, people are not looking for fancy models and 100+ books, but are looking for real and actually useful branding and marketing tips and help.

Moving to Ireland

Moving to Ireland was a long-time dream of mine. I’m lucky enough to have a husband who shared this dream with me, so after almost 2 years of preparations we finally packed our stuff and made a move.

I got offered a job by NGINX in February 2019

A few weeks later, I was in Cork and a new phase of my life had started. I joined the Field Marketing team, so I helped with dozens of events, travelled around Europe, visited the USA twice and learnt a lot about lead generation from my amazing co-workers.

In October 2020 I’ve got promoted to a Digital Marketing Specialist, and since then I tirelessly optimise digital demand generation marketing campaigns.

BiteSize Marketing

The pandemic was though on all of us, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who picked up weird hobbies along the way. Staying at home all day every day was far from nice, but it gave me the opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and try something completely new,so in 2020 I launched BiteSize Marketing. A 7-episode podcast and video series designed to talk about marketing in short and easy to consume episodes.

2019 – 

Moving to Ireland and immersing myself in IT security

Reka Veszeli, marketing tips, marketing, branding, social media, free guides, marketing downloadable