Chapter 1
Good marketing is no accident, but a result of careful planning and execution using state-of-the-art tools and techniques. It becomes both an art and a science as marketers strive to find creative new solutions to challenges in a complex marketing environment.
In this book, the authors describe how top marketers balance discipline and imagination to address these new marketing realities. In the first chapter, they set the stage by reviewing important marketing concepts, tools, frameworks, and issues.
The questions identified in the slide will be our focus.

Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest good definitions of marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”
The American Marketing Association offers the following formal definition: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.

Marketing management takes place when at least one party to a potential exchange thinks about the means of achieving desired responses from other parties.
Thus we see marketing management as the art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value.

Figure 1.2 shows the relationship between the industry and the market. Sellers and buyers are connected by four flows. Sellers send goods and services and communications such as ads and direct mail to the market; in return they receive money and information such as customer attitudes and sales data. The inner loop shows an exchange of money for goods and services; the outer loop shows an exchange of information.

Traditionally, a “market” was a physical place where buyers and sellers gathered to buy and sell goods.