Is Marketing and Selling are different?

[KH_Global]

Is marketing and selling are different or one? How do you differentiate once you close the deal? How do you know which effort sold the product?

Looking for your thoughts.

Robert

[paulson]

Marketing and selling ( in other words sales), well both are not different but both are not same either. marketing is a very broad term. sales or selling is a part of marketing. The Good marketing campaign results in lead generation and ultimately sales. Sales comes almost at the final stages of the marketing process. marketing starts with identifying a need, then involves various processes, like offering a product which can meet the need ,to promotion, distribution, sales, after service, feed back. In short business is marketing and sales is one of the objectives of marketing.

[goldie]

Look at this article ("what is marketing?") for your answer: http://www.va1ue-chain.com/What%20is%20Marketing.pdf

[BizDoc]

Although there are differences based on your industry, essentially marketing gets the phone to ring, and sales picks it up.
For further info I point you toward my blog listed below.

[DayTrader]

Marketing and Selling are interconnected. When you want to sell a product, you market them to people. Marketing means thinking of ways to motivate a potential client to actually buy your product.

[Lemman]

Although there are differences based on your industry, essentially marketing gets the phone to ring, and sales picks it up.
For further info I point you toward my blog listed below.

Hi there BizDoc, that is a short and simple explanation that hits the question right on the head. For some businesses though, small companies like us, the distinction gets blurred. And I think that there are advantages to having these two combined. This is the reason why account managers are better than sales or marketing people.