The document defines marketing as the activity of creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society. It also describes marketing as a social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they want through freely exchanging products and services of value. The document notes that marketing can involve goods, services, events, experiences, people, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas. It identifies marketers as those who seek responses from prospects.