Unlike other
disciplines, Marketing is relatively not old and it has no far long history
rather it is young field emerged in recent decades with the advent of
technology it touched its clamor. A brief history of marketing is as follows:
In some ways marketing
is as old as civilization itself. You may have seen films based in ancient Greece or Rome with
images of bustling market stalls and traders actively engaged in persuasive
communications. Of course, these traders would not have called their activities
marketing and their activities may seem far removed from someone ordering
airline tickets via a website.The concept of marketing that we now see has more
to do with developments during the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th
centuries. This was a period of rapid social change driven by technological and
scientific innovation. One result was that for the first time the production of
goods was separated from their consumption. Mass production, developing
transport infrastructure and growing mass media meant that producers needed to,
and could develop more sophisticated ways of managing the distribution of
goods.
The production
orientation era. For much of the industrial revolution goods were generally
scarce and producers could sell pretty much all that they could produce, as
long as people could afford to buy them. Their focus was therefore on
production and distribution at the lowest possible cost and what marketing
management that there was considered these issues (for example, reducing
distribution costs, opening new markets).