Marketing V/S Selling

Marketing starts with the buyer and focuses constantly on buyer’s needs.	Selling starts with the seller and is preoccupied all the time with the seller’s needs.
Seeks to convert “customer needs” into ‘products’.	Seeks to convert ‘products’ into “Cash”.
Views business as a customer satisfying process.	Views business as a goods producing process.
Marketing effort leads to the products that the customers actually want to buy in their own interest.	The company makes the product first and then figures out how to sell it and make a profit.
Marketing communication is looked upon as a tool for communicating the benefits/ satisfactions provided by the product	Seller’s motives dominate marketing communication (promotions).
Consumers determine the price; price determines cost	Cost determines the price.
Marketing views the customer as the very purpose of the business. It sees the business from the point of view of the customer.	Selling views the customer as the last link in the
‘Customer satisfaction’ is the primary motive.	‘Sales’ is the primary motive.
External market orientation.	Internal company orientation.
Marketing concept takes an outside in perspective	Selling concept takes an inside-out perspective.
It is a broad composite and worldwide concept, more so in this era of globalization.	It is a narrow concept related to product, seller and sales activity.
Marketing is more ‘pull’ than ‘push’.	Selling involves ‘push’ strategy.
Marketing begins much before the production of goods and services, i.e. with identification o customers’ needs. It continues even after the sale to ensure customer satisfaction through after sales services.	Selling comes after production and ends with the delivery of the product and collection of payment.
Marketing has a wider connotation and includes many activities like marketing research, product planning & development, pricing, promotion, distribution, selling etc.	Selling is a part of marketing.
It concerns itself primarily and truly with the ‘value satisfactions’ that should flow to the customer from the exchange.	It over emphasizes “the exchange’ aspect, without caring for the ‘value satisfactions’ inherent in the exchange.
It assumes: “Let the seller beware”.	It assumes: “Let the buyer beware”.
Marketing generally has a matrix type of organizational structure.	It has a functional structure.
The main job is to find the right products for your customers.	The main job is to find the customers for your products.
The mindset is “What is that we can make here or source from outside to satisfy the needs of the target customers”.	The mindset is “Hook the customer”.
Conceptual and analytical skills are required.	Selling and conversational skills are required