Marketing has defined as “a social and managerial process whereby individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others” (Kotler, P. & Armstrong, G., 2001, p. 6). “Marketing is the anticipating, management, and satisfaction of demand through the exchange process. It involves goods, services, organization, people, place, and ideas.” (Evans, R. & Berman 2007, p. 7).
It might never arise to manager that they could be accountants or CFOs without sufficient training, but nowadays, in many organizations the marketing functions are carry out by people with little to no formal training in the discipline. Many have misperception that “Marketing Is Art” as if there is no “science” behind the discipline then one’s opinion is just as good as anyone else’s. Although this is not meant to diminish “on the job training” or an individual’s experience and innate skills, the latter certainly does not......
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