Understanding marketing is vital to your success as a business professional. According to Lamb, Hair, and McDaniel (2014), Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large (p. 3). Companies that fail to embrace marketing as an essential business function commonly fail. Companies that effectively employ marketing strategically and tactically typically prosper. You practiced with developing your own slogan or motto in your introductory discussion, which is a form of personal marketing. Since you are a product in the career marketplace, it is essential that you properly market your personal brand by communicating a message that personifies your personal brand. Now you will learn how a company employs marketing by watching the following video on Geoffrey B. Small, a popular clothing fashion company. Using research from Chapter 1 in your textbook, write a minimum of a 23 page APA formatted and citation styled informative essay in Standard American English. Please be sure to include an Introduction (where you explain the purpose of your paper), Body (addressing all the checklist items), and Conclusion and an additional title page and reference page in APA format. Checklist: Address the following in your informative essay: 1. Describe how Geoffrey B. Small actively implements the marketing concept. 2. Compare and contrast the four marketing management philosophies that companies choose to adopt. 3. Identify the type of marketing management philosophy employed by the Geoffrey B. Small company. 4. Discuss how the Geoffrey B. Small Company can use social media to demonstrate their commitment to the marketing management philosophy they employ. References Lamb, C. W., Hair, J. F., & McDaniel, C. (2014). MKTG7. Mason, OH: Cengage. Discussion 2 Strategic Planning for Competitive Advantage Chapter 2 discusses the notion of competitive advantage. Is it possible to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, or is a sustainable competitive advantage just a theory? Do Apples iPad, TiVo, Netflix, Starbucks, Walmart, etc. have a competitive advantage? Why or why not? Explain your thoughts.