Identify marketing functions and their importance.

Identification should include

  • distribution (channel management)
  • marketing information management
  • market planning
  • pricing
  • selling
  • promotion
  • product/service management.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • How are the marketing functions interrelated?
  • What is the relationship between marketing functions and business operations and practices?
  • How do businesses tailor the use of marketing functions to their target customers?
  • What might happen if a company neglected one of the marketing functions?