[G, Parrott, 2014] Marketing is relevant to a business as marketing is used to collect quality data and form creative ideas. Everything that you would need to work in a business and accomplish would need a marketing plan and the following should be looked at: marketing strategies, marketing objectives, swot and pestle analysis, current market position and also market overview.
Whenever talking about why people should study marketing I like to quote Peter Drucker “There will always be need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself. Ideally, marketing should result in a customer who is ready to buy. All that should be needed is to make the product or service available”. This shows that marketing is more than advertising or selling it is also used to understand consumers as they can change at any time through buying power, self- expression, and self- service or even make or break the business. [R, Swaim, 2013].
A company that shows why marketing is important is Coca Cola as they are very successful. They have shown a commitment to responsible marketing for many years and this is long- standing. [coca-cola.co.uk] Coca cola have a Responsible Marketing Charter which is a set of principles that conducts their entire approach to marketing. This makes parents happy who are the consumers of coca cola as they