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According to the text, marketing means "selling" or "advertising."
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Actually, making goods or performing services is called marketing.
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Marketing plays an essential role in creating customer satisfaction.
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It is estimated that marketing costs about 50 percent of each consumer's dollar.
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Marketing discourages the development and spread of new ideas, goods, and services.
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Marketing is both a set of activities performed by organizations and a social process.
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Marketing is the performance of activities that seek to accomplish an organization's objectives by anticipating customer or client needs and directing a flow of need-satisfying goods and services from producer to customer or client.
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Marketing activities should be of no interest to a nonprofit organization.
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Marketing does not occur unless two or more parties are willing to exchange something for something else.
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In a pure subsistence economy--when each family unit produces everything it consumes--no marketing is involved.
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A marketing exchange is a single transaction between a firm and a customer, nothing more.
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Macro-marketing is a set of activities that direct an economy's flow of goods and services from producers to consumers in a way that effectively matches supply and demand and accomplishes the objectives of the society.
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Macro-marketing emphasizes who the whole system works rather than the activities of individual organizations.
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Achieving effective marketing in an advanced economy is simplified by the fact that producers are separated from consumers in only two ways: time and space.
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"Economies of scale" means that as a company produces larger numbers of a particular product, the costs for each of these products go down.
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The "universal functions of marketing" consist only of buying, selling, transporting, and storing.
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Marketing functions are performed by producers, consumers, and a variety of marketing specialists.
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Intermediaries specialize in trade and production.
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While intermediaries facilitate exchange, their cost makes the whole macro-marketing system less efficient.
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Marketing collaborators are any firms that provide the marketing functions of buying and selling.
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E-commerce refers to exchanges between organizations (not individuals) and the activities that facilitate those exchanges.
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Responsibility for performing the marketing functions can be shifted and shared in a variety of ways, but no function can be completely eliminated.
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Not all societies need an economic system.
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In a market-directed economy, government officials decide what and how much is to be produced and distributed by whom, when, to whom, and why.
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In a market-directed economy, price is a rough measure of how society values particular goods and services.