What would be the best answer in a H.R. interview if the difference between Sales and Marketing is asked?

Marketing is considered to be a wider term than sales. It includes identifying customers, producing innovative products, branding, advertising, public relations, sales etc. Thus, sales is just a stage or an activity of marketing.

Marketing means generating prospects while sales means converting the prospects into orders or purchases.

Sales:

Sales is where our business becomes real for the client.

Sales develop relationships. It’s relationship-driven.

Marketing:

Marketing is the action or business of promoting and selling products or services,

Marketing includes market research and advertising too.

 

 

 

I agree with Mr. Muhammad Adeel answer. Thank you

Marketing is based around creating a pull for customers by positioning the product, service or brand in the minds of consumers in such a way that it becomes desirable and the demand for the product is created or alternatively creating a product, service or brand which is demanded by the segmented cluster group according to market research.

 

Whereas Sales is a support function of Marketing where the product, service or brand is made visible and available to consumers to purchase.

Sales is only a process where a transaction is completed. Rest all is Marketing. If Marketing does not do the job right, Sales can never happen. 

Very Simly .... Marketing is a way to introduce New products. But the sale is the way to know or calculate your product image or Quality.

marketing is identifying customers and their needs creating awareness of your brand which includes sales and branding while sales is getting the product at the market at the right time at the place to the right people

sales is persuasion the customer and create the needs for him.

marketing after you understand the customer needs you show him your product only.

Marketing is the performance of business activities that direct the flow of goods and services from the producer to the consumer. the main differences of marketing and sales are, in marketing we need to create pull from buyer. in sales , push products to the buyer. in marketing we need to maintain a long term relationship with customers. in sales , it is a short term relationship.

 

Marketing and sales are steps or stages in one processe. Marketing is the first step and it is creating the image of the product or the service and the sales is the end of that processe and it is sell that product or service on depends of that image. Can not denay the improtant role of all the stages of the processe and each of those stages need specific skills to be implemented in professional way .

Marketing is nothing but we are utilizing our sources like product listing on website, brochures, eye catching advertisement and grabbing the leads which is not on the non-final stages.

But sales is nothing but the numbers play, we need to sell our products which is lying in our warehouse and also which is upcoming from the suppliers in week or two.  We need to close the deals which is already in the final stages.