{"id":3012,"date":"2017-03-12T03:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T03:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2017-03-12T03:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T03:52:39","slug":"marketing-vs-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/marketing-vs-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing vs. Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently had a interview with a company that contacted me for a “marketing” position. I was pretty excited, and after some shopping, makeup, and a little bit of stress– I was sitting in my interview. What had at first seemed like a promising position, I soon realized was not what had been described to me. What this company had titled “marketing” was actually door to door sales. I had been sales swindled, and I wasn’t even buying anything! But what is the difference between marketing and sales? Was I being blatantly lied to, or is marketing\/sales just a technicality?<\/p>\n

Well according to The Tronvig Group<\/a>,<\/p>\n

…sales has the power to change conditions, to transform a situation through the skills of the salesperson. Marketing, however, generally does not possess such transformative power. Marketing needs to work with conditions as they are. One could simplify and say: Sales is persuasion. Marketing is understanding applied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That seemed a little confusing to me…”understanding applied”? What does that mean? So I kept looking. This explanation from The Balance<\/a> made a lot more sense.<\/p>\n

If we broke it down to the basics, marketing is everything that you do to reach and persuade prospects and the sales process is everything that you do to close the sale and get a signed agreement or contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a bit clearer to me, I can see where Marketing ends, and sales begins, but its still tricky trying to find the distinction line within sales. Is a salesman NOT in sales until they close a sale? If they promote any unique part of the thing they’re selling, or explaining an attribute it holds, are they then a marketer? While this may not be the most important question in the world, it was intriguing to me. What do you think? What’s the difference between the two? Where does marketing end, and sales begin?<\/p>\n

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I recently had a interview with a company that contacted me for a “marketing” position. I was pretty excited, and after some shopping, makeup, and a little bit of stress– I was sitting in my interview. What had at first seemed like a promising position, I soon realized was not what had been described to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}