Buying: Looking for and evaluating goods and services
Selling: Promoting the product
Transporting: Movement of goods
Storing: Holding goods until needed
Standardization and grading: sorting products according to size and quality
Risk Taking: bearing uncertainties that are part of the marketing process
Financing:Provides the necessary cash and credit to produce, transport, store, promote, sell and buy products
Market Information: collection, analysis, and distribution of all information needed to plan, carry out, and control marketing activities, whether in the firm's own neighborhood or in a market overseas |