Is marketing just a higher level form of retail selling?

Question

In the end you're trying to push a product on someone, just in one case you're not in direct contact with the customer.

Answer 1

Well modern definitions are marketing have expanded to include things such as sales and distribution, even logistics.

However I am more traditional, though marketing should take these things into consideration, they are not marketing.

Sales is an art, and one I have never mastered. It is about particular social skills that only great sales people can master. On the other hand marketing is more about planning.

Now of course you are smart enough to realise these 2 things will overlap, especially if sales approaches are done to formula, or done over a longer period of time.

Here is an example that might help. Sales is trying to get any customer to buy. Marketing is looking at 10 customers and choosing which one to sell to.