{"id":2332,"date":"2008-03-01T05:26:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/my-definition-of-marketing\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T22:57:39","slug":"my-definition-of-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/my-definition-of-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Definition of Marketing in Nine Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In business schools, we were force fed many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&#038;hs=w55&#038;q=definition+of+marketing&#038;btnG=Search\">comprehensive, yet meaningless definitions of marketing<\/a> &#8211;and were then forced to recite, write, and regurgitate it.  Two days ago, Chris Kenton asked the community roundtable for their definition of marketing, I coughed up mine:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>[Marketing is the act of connecting customers to products]<\/center><\/h2>\n<p>Usually, I&#8217;m very thorough in my blog posts, but this time, I&#8217;ll keep it simple. Submit your definitions below, or critique mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In business schools, we were force fed many comprehensive, yet meaningless definitions of marketing &ndash;and were then forced to recite, write, and regurgitate it. Two days ago, Chris Kenton asked the community roundtable for their definition of marketing, I coughed up mine: [Marketing is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/my-definition-of-marketing\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Definition of Marketing in Nine Words<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}