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Linn: General Theory of Marketing   [pdf]
1.   The Crucial Definition
2.   The First Deduction
3.   The First Postulate
4.   The Second Postulate
5.    The Second Deduction
6.   The Third Deduction
7.   The Third Postulate
8.   The Fourth Postulate
9.   The Fourth Deduction
10. The Fifth Deduction
Summary
Appendix 1
Appendix 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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5. The Second Deduction: Marketing deals with branded products only

Marketing demands a differentiating name, trademark, brand, design or other form of identifying property of the products (i.e. goods and/or services) it deals with to render any marketing communication operative. A product excited to include an amount of metavalue may thus be identified as functionally branded. (This does not mean, however, that all of its metavalue has to be related to its brand!)