| | Small Business Marketing Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | This concept posits that a parallel paradigm of the marketing function exists alongside that which is already known - however such a parallel and emergent paradigm has yet to be fully understood and indeed appear within the marketing texts used within both the academic or small business development fields (Deacon, 2002). |
 | | Marketing is defined by Dibb et al (1997) as consisting of ‘individual and organisational activities that facilitate and expedite satisfying exchange relationships in a dynamic environment through the creation, distribution, promotion and pricing of goods, services and ideas’. |
 | | The cognitive link between market development and business development is somewhat more profound, however, as it also links the motivational conditions of the entrepreneur to that of the business, whilst intimating that small firms are perhaps more aware of strategic or visioning issues than larger firms. |
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