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¶ … marketing creates consumer needs or whether it just satisfies those needs. As frequently happens with debates, there is some merit to both points-of-view.
The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines marketing as "the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large" (AMA, 2011). Clearly the AMA holds that creating offerings that have value for customers is a legitimate marketing activity. This paper argues that the question of whether marketing convinces customers to develop new desires or whether it simply identifies and responds to pre-existing needs can be answered by how one defines what the customer considers to be of value.
Every individual has basic needs, which no amount of marketing can create. Most people would agree that the need for food, clothing, shelter etc. all fall into the category of needs that marketing does not create; rather these needs exist at the basic, fundamental human...
On the other hand, marketing has a great deal of influence over not whether these needs are satisfied or not, but how they are satisfied. One can satisfy one's need for a meal in various ways that marketing attempts to influence, from eating a power bar endorsed by a professional athlete to dining out at a trendy restaurant endorsed by a celebrity. The message that marketing delivers suggests that eating the power bar will improve one's athletic ability, and similarly that dining where celebrities eat suggests that one can enjoy a glamorous lifestyle similar to a celebrity's.
Where does the need or desire to be a better athlete or live like a celebrity originate? With a marketing campaign or from deep within the human psyche? Some would argue that these needs and wants originate within us, and that marketing does nothing more than make us aware of a need we didn't know we had. Others argue that, at the very least, marketing creates peer pressure to aspire to questionable goals. And both arguments are correct. For consumers who are not…
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AMA. (2011). Definition of marketing. American Marketing Association website. Retrieved July 7, 2011 from http://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Pages/DefinitionofMarketing.aspx
Papadakis, T. (2008). Do marketers create artificial needs? Agora website. Retrieved July 7, 2011 from http://agoraplace.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/do-marketers-create-artificial-needs/
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