YOUR MARKETING IS YOUR BUSINESS
According to management theorist Peter Drucker (1909-2005), marketing is a critical function of any successful company and the customer needs to be at its heart.
Drucker took his customer-centric principle seriously indeed. “The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence,” he wrote in his seminal 1954 publication The Practice of Management. The purpose of a business is “to create a customer” and retain that customer into the future.
“There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer” - Peter drucker (
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According to Drucker, marketing is a vital function in the creation and retention of customers. How effectively a business undertakes its marketing is a key predictor of the company's survival in the marketplace.
“Concern and responsibility for marketing must therefore permeate all areas of the enterprise,” he argued.