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Marketing is….

November 17, 2004 by Susan Getgood

According to the AMA, "marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders."

Well, knock me over with a feather, but that just doesn’t sound too exciting to me 🙂

It’s not that the definition is wrong. It is as good a place to start as any. But it is missing two things that we need to be good marketers.

    1. Sales. The goal of marketing is to sell something — whether it be a product or an idea, and while this is perhaps implied with "delivering value" and the focus on customers, I’d like to see it more explicit.
    2. Action. In marketing, we want to get someone to do something. The AMA definition is passionless and passive — I want to see marketers excited and active — doing, making things happen, getting results.

So here’s what I’d like to add to the dialogue:

"Marketing is the art, and science, of persuading a prospect to take the desired action. Most often, to buy a product, but also: renew a subscription, sign the petition, make the contribution, etc."

Implicit in this definition is the creation of the "product"  that will persuade — both the tangible and intangible.

Here are a couple of other blogs that also cover this topic: Marketing Playbook and Brand Mantra.

What do you think we need to add to this definition to make it work for you?

Filed Under: Marketing

Definition of Marketing

November 15, 2004 by Susan Getgood

I haven’t forgotten – I promised to talk about "to blog or not to blog" but today in my research mode, I came across the new definition of marketing that was officially unveiled at the AMA Summer Educators’ Conference in Boston in August. And I quote:  "Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders."

So the question I ask –does this definition work for you? My thoughts in my next post…

Filed Under: Marketing

Welcome

November 13, 2004 by Susan Getgood

Welcome to the GetGood Strategic Marketing Blog. This will be our shared forum for publishing ideas, thoughts and musings about marketing in the Internet Age. First up will be my musings on just when do BLOGS make sense as a marketing tool, and when do they just feel like a major marketing mis-step.

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