Marketing vs Commercialize - What's the difference?
marketing | commercialize |
As a noun marketing is marketing (promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service). As a verb commercialize is to apply business methodology to something in order to profit.
marketing Verb
(head)
Noun
Buying and selling in a market.
(uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; includes market research and advertising.
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, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing ”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Shopping, going to market.
* 1926 , (George Herriman), comic strip Us Husbands'', June 12th, 1926 (reprinted in the back of ''Krazy & Ignatz , vol. 1922–1924, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60699-477-1, p. 223):
- [Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone.
Derived terms
* affiliate marketing
* ambush marketing
* antimarketing
* direct marketing
* e-marketing
* event marketing
* influencer marketing
* marketing collateral
* marketing research
* membership marketing
* multi-level marketing
* niche marketing
* viral marketing
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commercialize English
Alternative forms
* commercialise (UK)
Verb
(commercializ)
to apply business methodology to something in order to profit
to exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality
See also
* monetize
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