Marketing competencies of trade personnel

Literature approaching the field of marketing deals with issues specific to the human resources competencies especially in the chapters regarding the organization of the marketing activity. The number of studies and the articles published in this area so far is, however, a rather low one. This article attempts to produce, from the perspective of an exploratory approach and without having as goal to develop or validate a list containing various items, the answers to a series of questions such as: what is meant by marketing skills and what they are, what are the main marketing skills that should be found at the level of the staff working in the field of trade and which should be the qualities of trade personnel conducting marketing activities.