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The overall marketing strategy of an organization should focus on developing relationships with customers to understand their needs, and to develop goods, services, and ideas to meet those needs.

Advertisers refer to the standard communications model of a source transmitting a message through a channel (which contains a degree of noise) to a target. Feedback is received by the source in response to the message. Good feedback typically comes in the form of money spent on the product advertised.

Broad Techniques

1. Niche Strategy: Find a niche of customers undeserved by current offerings
2. Growth Strategy: Increase revenue from existing market niches and deliver better offerings to new target markets
3. Defensive Strategy: Maintain leadership position by developing brand loyalty, mass distribution
4. Offensive Strategy: Adopt a policy of destroyer pricing to preempt the entry of new firms or drive away the existing competitors.