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Define Between Sales and Marketing ?

Your answer should be from your individual experiences rather borrowing statements from Marketing Gurus like Peter Drukker and Philip Kotler.

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Question added by Suraj Abraham , GM - Sales & Marketing , Kora Trading & Contracting Co., Doha, Qatar
Date Posted: 2017/04/16
Moustapha Saber
by Moustapha Saber , Senior Sales Executive , Premier Technology Co.

Marketing : is make the goods known to sell it by its a lot of methods

like word of mouth / / call of action / Email Marketing / on-call marketing 

 

Sales: is know the need of the customer and  sell the known good  as the final part of Marketing 

Pushpakaran Thiyadi
by Pushpakaran Thiyadi , Freelance Researcher/ Consultant , Freelance

'Sales' means selling available products to consumers for a value. 'Marketing'means making available appropriate products for use of the market segment and selling them to the consumers at a value.

 Sales involves a simple task,where as marketing involves market rsearch for availability of appropriate products,costing,pricing,and selling.

Islam Yusri
by Islam Yusri , Business Instructor , Private Teaching

The main task for the marketing agent is to identify customer' needs through creating and managing the communication process to build effective relationship However, the task for the sales is to convince the customers that his needs and wants will be best met by the organization's goods and service so the customer will have the intention to buy the products continuously

Mary Thomas
by Mary Thomas , Executive Assistant , FMTF

Sales is to sell your product in the market, with an appropriate price tag which covers your cost of production, other expenses and your profit margin, with proper research of your competitors prices in the market.

Marketing means to introduce your Product in the Market. To reach the information about your product targetting your prime Consumers/Customers.

Mohammad Ashraf Adoni
by Mohammad Ashraf Adoni , Operations Supervisor , Magenta IT Solutions PVT LTD

Marketing Shows how to reach the customer and build a long term relationship, which bring together buyers and sellers by planning and implementing, where in Sales is an ultimate result of the marketing, in which we use push strategy where the buyer receives the goods or services in exchange of money

Muhammad ElSabbagh
by Muhammad ElSabbagh , Analyst , Accenture

Sales and Marketing are integrated process wich cannot be distinguished easily. While the hidden and indirect messages sent to customers is within Marketing which is the core of the business. Marketing deals with the undefined goals for a certain product or services and let them reach the top with a precise plan.

Whilst Sales is numbers and efforts shown as a result of the marketing plan been implemented n the company

Raman Iyer
by Raman Iyer , Head - Sales & Marketing , Tulsi Interiors

I presume you have asked Difference and not define as you have used "between". 

My understanding of sales eversince, i began my career with Sales (similiar to the role of a soldier / specialist) who has to produce results (conversion / kill) with his acquired skills. The Sales person works on a master plan deviced by a an individual ( Marketing) who has considered /is good at, various aspects of the business like Finance, Economics, Analistics / Statistics, Consumer behaviour and above all Business Management - Advertising, HR etc.  

A sales person has to plan to apply his Selling skills to execute the Marketing Plan and convert the Plan into numbers. He is the bread winner and his winning is key to the sucess of the Marketing Plan. 

Yaser Mulla
by Yaser Mulla , Head of Branch- Riyadh , Digital Technology Co. Ltd.

The objective of Sales and Marketing is the same: to let customers to know you exist and let them know what your company provides, but the tactics are very different.

Sales is mostly an individual act for example a sales employee will contact the customer, get to know him/her personally, and gain trust of the customer. By being personal the sales employee will try to convince the customer that if you trust me, you should leave the rest to me. In sales the customer knows more about an individual rather than a company.

Marketing is more of a broad act for example a marketing employee will handle promotions through social media outlets, he/she will almost never interact with the customer. In marketing the customer does not have a personal relationship with an employee of the company and they will not trust the promoted company unless and until they try the product or service.

This is just short comparison of what is the difference between sales and marketing.

Hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Yaser

Muhammad Yousaf
by Muhammad Yousaf , Director , Zia Saeed & Co. Pvt. Limited

I can tell you a long story which can tell you the difference between Marketing and Sales but rather very simple answer to this question is that Marketing deals with the creation of demand for a certain product or service while sales deals with the physical transfer of title of a good or service from the seller to the buyer.

You do advertising, sales promotion, personal selling and lot more things to pursuade the customer to convince him/her to buy a particular brand that is all Marketing. But when customer physical buy that product against payment and tranfer of title takes place from seller to buyer physically it is Sales.

Shoaib Qureshi
by Shoaib Qureshi , Assistant Manager , Sarena Apparel

Marketing vs. Sales. Marketing and sales are both aimed at increasing revenue. They are so closely intertwined that people often don't realize the difference between the two. Indeed, in small organizations, the same people typically perform both sales and marketing tasks.

Ali Hemani
by Ali Hemani , SVP/Country Head - Marketing, Product Development & Service Quality , Askari Bank Ltd.

Marketing is communicating with mass target market and ...

1) creating awareness of the product / service

2) Generate interest (this could be a sales lead as well)

3) help consumer understand how the product serve the need

 

Whereas sales

is hard core selling of the product - nothing else

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