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Ahhh, but we do know. The Wikipedia article also says:

"..at the Harvard Business School in the early 1960s, suggested that the Marketing Mix contained 4 elements: product, price, place and promotion."

And then:

"Product: The product aspects of marketing deal with the specifications of the actual goods or services, and how it relates to the end-user's needs and wants."

Market research has been a subset of marketing for over over four decades now - modern textbooks will give you the exact same information I quoted above. While I'm sure the market researcher was a lovely girl, she's no substitute for reading up on the matter.




Last time I took a marketing class was in '03, and indeed, at least up until then, the 4 P's were still taught as the major components of marketing.




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