I agree wholeheartedly with you. I think marketing took place somewhere at soemtime. It may have been indirect but with no marketing at all I thiink you stand the same chance of just building a website and doing absolutley nothing else.

You won't sell many widgets that way.

Taylor

> Without getting into a debate of semantics,
> look at what Mike typed below, where he
> stated that no marketing took place:
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> In this example, Mike's marketing was done
> when he sold and serviced JL. He marketed
> himself adequately enough to JL, that JL in
> turn did the selling to the new client. Mike
> simply took the order, which is far
> different than selling.
> As Mike states, everyone has their own take
> on things, and it pretty much boils down to
> calling things what you choose.
> The way my belief system is set up, however
> is that a sale can not take place unless
> some form of marketing prompted that.
> Marketing can be doing right by your client
> and generating word of mouth orders as a
> result. Marketing can be a big 7-Eleven sign
> positioned at roadside. Marketing can be
> wearing your best suit to help you sell
> yourself to a prospective employer. I
> suppose it boils down to one's own
> definitions of these terms.
> Just my 2 cents.