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I was hoping for something simple like "create brand awareness"

Not sure this post is doing much better than the problem it describes

Hmm. "The core job of marketing is to grow revenue faster." Did this line not help or too vague?

Marketing does more than that and revenue growth is shared with sales and the rest of the organization

Love this type of discussion. I'll give you that there are many sub jobs within the job of growing revenue faster. I'll also give you that Sales's job is also to create revenue. Revenue creation/growth is the job for both marketing and sales. They have different sub jobs to achieve that.

What do you think marketing does that's above and beyond growing revenue faster? :)

I'm here to learn new perspectives.

Most people don't buy when they see marketing, rather the marketing influences their decision making when they are at the buying point. This is why is said the main thing marketing does is create brand awareness

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