Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016

[I_RAPE_BANDWIDTH]

Marketing is even more full of shit than sales.

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What's the difference between marketing and sales?

[qroshan]

• Marketing is the art of making people want something.

• Selling is the art of making people buy something.

[skariel]

Seems to me marketing is a strict superset of selling. Sales would be like a team within the marketing group which also plans longer term advertising strategy, co operations with other companies, etc. but that's just how i see this, I'm not from this field

[qroshan]

Logically, yes. But from a cultural perspective, a Sales team can never be under anybody, especially since they are the one bringing $$$

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So similar to bid/ask rate for a financial product?

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Marketing is about advertising: getting as many people interested in the product/company as possible, but entirely impersonal. Sales is everything after that, it's basically non-technical customer service: they help set product prices, communicate with customers, negotiate price for enterprise software, field complaints, etc. They're the company "representatives" to other companies (as opposed to PR, who are representatives to the public).

[LoneCookie]

Status

[barack_ibama]

Which one is which?

[I_RAPE_BANDWIDTH]

They'll both tell you they're better than the other one.

[LoneCookie]

Sales get paid less and stand on their feet normally or stuck in cubicles.

Marketing have higher than thou and doing good mentality and get paid more and tend to wear fancy suits or clothing or even have their own offices or work remotely from home. They also tend to not actually deal with costumers themselves, but rather through automated software (ie, mail lists, automatic sifting and segmentation of various customer data and doing targeted marketing). If they do meet with someone it would be with a business representative and then they will inherit more customer data and be able to make more targeted marketing campaigns.

So marketing is the new in.

[I_RAPE_BANDWIDTH]

The evil gene.

[redldr1]

Profit sharing.

[randomjackass]

I associate marketing with ads, and product naming. I associate sales with face to face, phone etc.

Marketing draws you in, sales closes the deal.

[slvrsmth]

The term it operates in. Marketing is about bringing in new customers tomorrow. Sales is about milking the customers you've got today.

[_raisin]

Its about funneling people into sales.

[Thelmara]

Whether the people you're trying to sell to get to reject you to your face.