When it comes to marketing, the success of your campaigns doesn’t solely rely on strategies and tools, but significantly on the people who create and execute these strategies. Understanding the psyche profiles and personality types that best fit marketing roles is just what you need to understand your team's inner workings and productivity better. Let us look into the various psychological profiling methods, discuss popular and niche profiles and explore the ideal personality makeup for a marketing team that balances harmony with diversity for your company.

The lines blurred sometime in the last 10 years, but I don't know exactly when it happened.

Having started my first business at 25 years of age, specializing in technology marketing, I thought I had it all. A marketer who understood technology marketing and who could talk the talk which at that time seemed to be, the height of the dot com boom, the most lucrative marketing position one could hold.

Then of course, someone came along and started talking about company culture, and marketers took a turn to start embellishing the on-boarding process of new recruits, with a mixture of "people marketing" with "technology marketing" - and for a time, that was all the rage. It seemed to be the only thing people were talking about and marketers starting play a role in human resources, giving recruiters and in-house HR managers the tools to "sell their brands" like they were a front line sales executive needing to close the deal in order to reach their quotas.