What is the difference between sales and marketing Answer me in detail.?

Marketing is what companies like Nike and Reebok do with their TV commercials of athletes wearing their clothes and shoes.

Sales is what National Sports or Dunhams does when they close the deal and get money or CC from consumers in exchange for the items.

Marketing covers the whole process of understanding customers and offering them goods or services in the place, in the form and at the price they want. So, it includes public and press relations, advertising, market research, business development, sales, after sales, customer relations, etc.

Sales, on the other hand, is just one part of marketing. Getting someone to part with money for the good or service you offer.

SALES------the turnout of consumers who patronize your product
MARKETING------it is the process of selling your products to the people

Marketing is conceptualization and execution of the product you want to sell, the price, the distribution and the promotion it will use. Sales, on the other hand, is the process of exchanging your product with customers money. The flow starts with marketing and ends with sales, basically speaking.

Anyway, a complete answer for you:
http://marketing.about.com/cs/advertising/a/mrktingvssales.htm

Sales are the activities involved in providing products or services in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity

The "deal is closed", means the customer has consented to the proposed product or service by making full or partial payment (as in case of installments) to the seller
Selling is a practical implementation and part of marketing. It often forms a separate grouping in a corporate structure, employing separate specialist operatives known as salespersons (singular: salesperson). Sales is considered by many to be a sort of persuading "art". Contrary to popular belief, the methodological approach of selling refers to a systematic process of repetitive and measurable milestones, by which a salesperson relates his offering of a product of service in return enabling the buyer to achieve his goal in an economic way.

Marketing is the process or act of bringing together buyers and sellers
A market-focused, or customer-focused, organization first determines what its potential customers desire, and then builds the product or service. Marketing theory and practice is justified in the belief that customers use a product/service because they have a need, or because a product/service provides a perceived benefit.

Two major factors of marketing are the recruitment of new customers (acquisition) and the retention and expansion of relationships with existing customers (base management).

Sales: How many transactions are made i.e. product or service for a fee.
Marketing: The method in which you let people know that you have something for sale.

I wish you well.

Like the old saying goes: â€œBuild a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.â€œ What the saying doesn't tell anyone or even mention is: YOU MUST get out there and let "the world" know about that better mousetrap!

Marketing is the promotion and presentation to make the sales. Its proper advertising and exposure of the product or service.

As a very close and successful business acquaintance of mine said: There ainâ€™t no superhighway to success - so forget it! If it sounds too good to be true, dammit - it IS too good to be true. DONâ€™T BITE or go for that crap!â€

Question: "How do you eat an elephant?"
Answer: "One bite at a time."

In all honesty, unless an idea is developed into something real and tangible, "ideas are a dime a dozen."

To get to the core of the matter: Most people basically want these:
1] some thing [a physical object or procedure] and/or
2] someone [who has the skills or has the ability and means to provide the skills and his/her/their services] to save time, money and confusion.
3] At a reasonable price.
Do your best never to sell yourself short

In other words: Find a need --- THEN fill that need.

In a very quiet place, with no TV, radio or any other thought-interrupting, outside influence, you should sit down. Write-down ALL those things you totally enjoy doing. Design a general business plan for those items on your list.

In your plan you should include a rough idea with whom you could call on - preferably live and
in-person - to present your idea - with "a pitch" and a presentation -
and hopefully make the sale.

THEN the "leg work" starts:
Here are a couple DOs:

AND what about the cost of your business cards? Do you think you can "cut corners" and make a good impression with those thin, flat, lifeless, computer-generated cards? In the beginning, it may make pefect sense for you to use those cards. After a while, you may realize they just donâ€™t work for you and your company or service.

PLEASE DO yourself a HUGE favor: Invest your time to sit down and properly design your business cards. If you aren't sure, please go to a professional printer or graphic arts store and ask for help and guidance. Those folks should amaze you with ideas and concepts. In the long run, good, professionally printed business cards with raised lettering and features, go a long way to show others you care - about yourself, about your business and about your clients.

When you leave, all your contacts and clients have left are two things:
1] Good, bad or indifferent - the impression you left.
2] Your business card.

Don't you think it makes good sense to invest your money in a good, quality business card? Have your cards professionally printed.

Invest you time and money joining the local club or association. &&&&&&&&&&&&& BE ACTIVE!!!! Get on committees, get to be known as a "can do" type of person. You should have fun [and Yes, some aggravation, too]. You should make some friends and begin building your client base. You should get leads! AND look how much time, money and aggravation you'll save! LOTS!

Find an investment group - or two - or more with professional investors. JOIN it/them AND BE ACTIVE FOR THE SAME REASONS!

"Sell the sizzle - not the steak." Your introductory letter should be no more than one side of one page of a standard letter-size sheet of paper. NO ONE wants to read through pages and pages of general garbage.

FIND OUT THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE YOU NEED TO CALL AND CALL ON. How? Go to the library AND/OR go online and do the research.

PLEASE DON'T WRITE LETTERS TO
"Dear Business Owner" OR
"Dear Person In-charge of Shipping", etc.
Believe me: Nothing finds its way faster to the paper shredder or recycle pile, than a mass-produced, general language letter.

Your percentage of success - actually having a response to your letter or phone call - should be about 1 in 100, 1 in 250 or even higher.
Many times your letter will never be read. Many times your phone calls will never be returned.
Rejection is part of life. Learn to accept it. Learn to adjust to it. Learn to deal with it.
Remember this [It may help you through the rough times]: SW3 - N!
Some Will. Some Won't. So What. Next!!

Call or write to those people

At the very least, at the meeting, they could possibly tell you what else you need to do to have that particular concept "tweaked" work for them.

The above is about marketing - not everything you need to know, but its about marketing

Sales is the actual generating of revenue: Getting the signature[s] on that dotted line; delivering the product and/or service

AND FINALLY - not quite - getting that money.

THEN continuing with communication and additional service after the sale to generate more income.
[If this is marketing, it is. If its sales, it is!] Iâ€™ll refer to this as â€œwarm canvassingâ€œ; developing a lasting business relationship to make it just a little easier to generate future revenue and income.

I wish you well.

Very Truly Yours,
Ron B.

Sales is the process of actually placing the product in the market, selling it to customers by raising a bill or invoice on them and also includes collecting money from them.
Marketing on the other hand is a process of making sound or creating noise or say a public awareness of the company's and product's existence so that potential customers become aware about the availability of the product. It is doing a general or specific act to attract customers.This is done thru various media and often includes comparison of the product with those of the competitors to prove superiority.

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