Modern marketing
Dictionary.com defines marketing as, "the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising." If you work in a marketing role like I do, it's probably difficult for you to define marketing even though you see and use it every day -- the term marketing is a bit all-encompassing and variable for a straightforward definition. This definition feels unhelpful. The selling part, for instance, overlaps a little too snuggly with a "what is sales" definition, and the word advertising makes me think of Mad Men brainstorming sessions. But upon digging deeper, I began seeing that actually, marketing does overlap heavily with advertising and sales. Marketing is present in all stages of the business, beginning to end. Download Now: State of Marketing Report [2020 Version] At first, I wondered why marketing was a necessary component during product development, or a sales pitch, or retail distribution. But it makes s...