What is the difference between marketing and sales?
marketing | sales |
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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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):
The activities involved in selling goods or services.
The amount or value of goods and services sold.
As nouns the difference between marketing and sales
is that marketing is buying and selling in a market while sales is plural of lang=en.As a verb marketing
is present participle of lang=en.marketing
English
(wikipedia marketing)Verb
(head)Noun
citation, 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.}}
- [Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone.