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As a Marketing Professional, do you think a Marketing Professional can perform sales activity?

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Question added by DANYYAL NUSRAT , Marketing Manager , Chohan Estate
Date Posted: 2014/02/04
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Of course they can, all they need to have is a good convincing ability and product knowledge.

Fazal Ebrahim Dawood
by Fazal Ebrahim Dawood , Chief Executive Officer , Stardist Ltd

Basically a marketer is a sales person who knows and understand sales or else he would not be working as the root of sales. Marketers source and assess products, do consumer research to identify the needs of the customer advertise and brand products. They generate interest in the products that lead to sales. 

Abdul Wahab Awan
by Abdul Wahab Awan , Sr. Officer Procurement & Inventory Management , Model Craft Saudi International

What i have noticed is that large number of people in the market mix marketing and sales  and consider that they are almost same, however there is a very thin line in between marketing and sales which differentiate them from each other.

“Marketing is to create awareness”

Marketing is all about creating awareness for the brand or product you want to sell into the market.

A marketer create awareness of the brand to its consumers and let them know that see this XYZ brand is available in the market and you can satisfy your specific need by using this brand.

Now once the awareness and promotion part is done, SALES comes in.

“Sales is to drag the customer to the point where he or she purchase your product”

“Difference between marketing and sales is as simple as it is”,.

Now coming back to the question, I think the question is but wage you need to understand the marketing and sales first and by doing so you will get your answer.

 

Its not only a marketer who can become sales person but any person with good communication skills, persuasive nature can be a good sales man.

khaled Ibrahim Sayed Abd El Salam Ibrahim
by khaled Ibrahim Sayed Abd El Salam Ibrahim , Chief Accountant , -ElMehy engineering company

First we all MUST agree about marketing and sales are different Jobs requirments otherwise we can hier one person to handle both sections in any company , but overall the marketing know for sure the products or the service who try to market it by sequence at least he / she have the first step of being sales man , but MUST have commnications skills in order try to convince other of the products or services.

Abdul Samad Nadeem Malik
by Abdul Samad Nadeem Malik , Business Support Officer , Thimar Al Jazirah - 3M ESPE

Yes because Sales depends on marketing if you are a good marketer it is not difficult for you to achive the Sales target.

Jibran Khan
by Jibran Khan , executive , Frigorifico Allana Limited

A marketing person can efficiently o sales as sales is a sub set of marketing. 

saikrishna ingilela
by saikrishna ingilela , IT Presales Manager , Mfi Office Solutions

Marketing is Promoting the company products and services . That is primary activitty for sales. Maketing people has good knowledge about client interest and present trends in the market.So it is very good helpful for sales.

khairuddin Saifi
by khairuddin Saifi , Admin/Accountant Assistant , Kernel Education Society

Yes, becuase marketer have good knowledge about the products, so marketing professional can do it nicely. 

 

Mershed  Aburajab
by Mershed Aburajab , National Parts Manager - HONDA , Abdullah Hashim Company Ltd.

Yes you can.

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