1. Marketing involves creating, offering, and exchanging products and services of value to satisfy needs and wants through target markets. 2. The scope of marketing has expanded from physical goods to include services, experiences, events, people, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas. 3. The core concepts of marketing include understanding target markets and segmentation, customer needs and value, the marketing mix of product, price, place, and promotion, and developing relationships through marketing channels.