I love lists, and occassionally a well-written lists deserves to be copied, and recopied, verbatim.
The following is from Drayton Bird, who has a list of 14 weapons of marketing (in the comments section).
Research
Advertising
Sales Promotion
Point of Sale
Packaging
PR
Product placement
Guerrilla
Word of mouth
Workplace marketing
Sales people
Experiential [sic]
Sponsorship
Cause related marketing
On top of this, audiences often overlooked but often more important than [...]