There are lots of well-crafted, wide-ranging, all-inclusive marketing definitions. A sampling: American Marketing Association (AMA): "Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, ...

Marketing research is the function that links the consumer, customer, and public to the marketer through information—information used to identify and define opportunities and problems; generate, ...

Marketing is the process of continuously and profitably satisfying target customers’ needs, wants and expectations superior to competition. Note the six key elements in the marketing definition: The ...