Marketing is the process by which companies determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. [1] It is an integrated process through which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return.[1]
Marketing is used to identify the customer, to keep the customer and to satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that marketing management is one of the major components of business management. The evolution of marketing was caused due to mature markets and overcapacities in the last decades. Companies then shifted the focus from production to the customer in order to stay profitable.
The term marketing concept holds that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions.[2] It proposes that in order to satisfy its organizational objectives, an organization should anticipate the needs and wants of consumers and satisfy these more effectively than competitors.[2]
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AN ex-bankrupt entrepreneur whose marketing business made money out of federal government insulation rebates washed his hands yesterday of the death of a ...
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After being live in the App Store for three months, the Pizza Hut application for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch has surpassed $1 million in sales.
