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Jp Singh, Manager, India
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Most or all of the MBA institutes teach marketing in their programs.
Today's corporate world emerges as sales-oriented with both marketing and sales playing a major role. Many people seem to be recruited for sales jobs.
There seems to be a mismatch between what MBA's are tought and what's required in the real world? (...) Read more? Sign up for free
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Claude Balleux, Strategy Consultant, Canada
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Sales versus Marketing
Yeah. Maybe you're right. From my point of view, university's program are too "branded marketing" oriented. And branding is too far from the SME's concern. Which do not have the financial capacity to support a brand as McDonalds or Nike can do it. And it's true that this kind of marketing is far from a sales job's concern.
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Francielle Nunes, Entrepreneur, Brazil
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Theory versus Practise
The question makes sense. There is a mismatch between the teaching of marketing (theory) and the corporate world which emerges as sales oriented (practise).
It is key to understand both marketing and sales toward the real world. MBA schools should go to that direction.
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Tony Pagliaroli, Strategy Consultant, United States
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Sales-Orientation is Very Important
Hold on here a minute. Maybe, I am a bit older her (...)
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Agnes, Belgium
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Sales Depends on Company and product
What subject would you cover within a sales course (...)
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Neil McMullen, Business Consultant, United States
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Marketing is Strategic; Sales is Operational
Most MBA curriculums are built on the premise that (...)
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Peter Pudaite, Entrepreneur, India
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Complimentary & Symbiotic Relation between Sales and Marketing
As others have already pointed out marketing is st (...)
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Sajee Sirikrai, Professor, Thailand
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Sales and Marketing In Brief
Sales: today
Marketing: tomorrow. (...)
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Bhairoo Jeson, Student (Other)
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Sales can't be Teached
I think this misconception comes from organisation (...)
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Mads Tokehoj, CEO, China
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Succesful Business People Don't Just Sit in Their Office
Successful business people are present in their ma (...)
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Oluwakunle
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Marketing Supports the Sales Team
My view is that the marketing team supports sales (...)
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Biswabhusan Prusty, Business Consultant, India
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Sales versus Marketing
Simple:
1. Sales is a part of marketing.
2. Mar (...)
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JS Shiah, Project Manager, China
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1-1 versus 1-m
Sales is 1-1 and marketing is 1-to-many operation. (...)
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Purushottam Thombare
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Marketing and Sales Should Work Together
Marketing is the strategic step in advance and an (...)
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Olga Aros, Consultant, United States
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Rules of Marketing / Sales
Know thy customer and you can sell and market too! (...)
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Tinus van der Merwe
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Marketing Sets the Conducive Climate for Sales
People also forget that marketing sets the (conduc (...)
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Verbeeck
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The Commercial Department
In my opinion you can't really separate both speci (...)
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Dipoko, Director, United States
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Marketing and Sales Should be like a Coach and his Football Team
Marketing and sales are closely linked. But in man (...)
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Frederick Hamnett, Business Consultant, Italy
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Sales Without Marketing
Marketing means building and mantaining a market. (...)
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Biswajyoti Kanjilal, Manager, India
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Sales V/s Marketing
Per my knowledge,
- Sales is an integral part of (...)
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Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia
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Faces...
I have a masters in marketing - most comments are (...)
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Tony Pagliaroli, Strategy Consultant, United States
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Sales can be just as Strategic as Marketing
What an interesting conversation from around the w (...)
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S Shyam Prasad, Professor, India
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Sales versus Marketing
Sales and marketing are so closely related that it (...)
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Rusty Husar, Project Manager, United States
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Sales is where the Rubber meets the Road
Selling the product is the ends to the means. Reme (...)
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Jeff Harnois, Student (University), United States
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Sales Professors...
I believe the original topic is focusing on the no (...)
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mccarthy
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The Context of Sales versus Marketing
Well its more complex than what most have stated. (...)
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Palermo, Student (MBA)
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Impact of the Sales
Sales is only the physical contact between a compa (...)
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edward offor, Strategy Consultant, Nigeria
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Teach Sales as a Stand Alone Course
Sales when taught is treated as a sub topic of mar (...)
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Ken Tran
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In Short
You can have sales without marketing, but not the (...)
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Fatema Tinwala, Student (University), New Zealand
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Marketing for Sales
Marketing is a tool or function that creates the d (...)
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Ahmad dawoud, Manager, Jordan
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Marketing, Then Sales
Marketing is the set of tools of which first of al (...)
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Wang, China
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Marketing, Then Sales
Sales is just selling what you have, marketing wil (...)
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Vidura Gamage, Manager
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Sales should NOT Be Only Selling what you Have
Sales not should be only selling what you have. It (...)
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Anthony Jones, Student (MBA), South Africa
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Sales versus Marketing
Indeed the academia are at times far removed form (...)
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Simon QI
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Brains and Magicians
I believe marketing is the brain, which tells you (...)
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Husson Yanis, Manager, Mauritius
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Worst Practice in Marketing / Sales
In fact, several organisations omit to invite sale (...)
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olawoyin, Project Manager, Nigeria
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Sales Effort versus Marketing Effort
Sales involves personal efforts while the efforts (...)
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Leonardo Leao, Manager, Brazil
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Marketing Should Provide Analyses to Sales
Marketing should provide the analyses to help the (...)
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Vu Phan, Manager, Viet Nam
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Sales versus Marketing
In my opinion, the "marketing" term is more broad (...)
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White, United Kingdom
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Sales and Marketing have Same Underlying Principles
I agree with the statement by Js Shiah that:
- Ma (...)
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Eric Hilario, Coach, France
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Synergy in Sales X Marketing
Solid sales person x poor marketing = 1 sale
Weak (...)
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Monteiro, Consultant, Portugal
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Incorporate Sales and Marketing!
In my opinion, the mistake is separating marketing (...)
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Adrian Boucher PhD
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The Topic 'Sales' at Business Schools
I now teach MBA students in a business school. The (...)
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Emmanuel Reyme, Director, United States
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What Should Students Learn at Universities?
University students are self learners. Professors (...)
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Husson Yanis, Manager, Mauritius
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Turbulent Environment > Sales More Discretion
I agree that marketing should normally not be sepa (...)
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Olga Aros, Consultant, United States
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Marketing and Sales Fit like a Hand in a Glove
I have done both simultaneously and together they (...)
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ZAIN UL RASHIDEEN, Accountant, Pakistan
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MBA: Marketing. Reality: Sales
Business Schools and universities teach marketing (...)
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Jiwoong Son, Student (University), Korea (South)
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What Should Students Learn in Their Course?
In my opinion, students who are learning managemen (...)
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Olga Aros, Consultant, United States
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What Should Students Learn in Their Course
You cannot be an effective marketer for your compa (...)
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Jiwoong Son, Student (University), Korea (South)
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What Sould Students Learn in Their Courses? (2)
Reading books to study general theories and busine (...)
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John Moses, Manager, Nigeria
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Marketing as a Process That Includes Sales
Marketing could be defined as the satisfaction of (...)
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Heather Halton, Student (Other), Ireland
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Marketing Invented to Be a Clean Version of Sales
I believe that marketing was invented as a new buz (...)
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Jp Singh, Manager, India
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Marketing a Status Profile
Being a sales person you need face targets, figure (...)
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S Shyam Prasad, Professor, India
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Marketing is Different from Sales
Its true that the market place is emerging as sale (...)
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Dr.Abu-Gieseisa, Consultant, Sudan
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Sales and Marketing Have Common Goals
Indeed marketing and sales are different in concep (...)
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Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia
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The Role of Sales versus Marketing Depends on the Product
@ : Good answer Mr. Prasad. We only need to look a (...)
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Sanjeev Kumar Sanju, Manager, India
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A Sale is Proof of Effective Marketing
Marketing creates the 'pull' that enhances the dem (...)
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MOSES OGOLA OCHWO, Student (Other), Uganda
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Sales and Marketing
They are two sides of the same coin! Marketing str (...)
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Dave Lee, Business Consultant, Jamaica
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Sales versus Marketing
To say that "once the product matches the need of (...)
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J S Broca, Teacher, India
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The Ongoing Conflict Between Sales and Marketing
I recall having read an article in Harvard Busines (...)
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Dr Gary Jones, Business Consultant, Australia
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Sales is Product Specific and Personality Driven
Certainly marketing taught at university is theory (...)
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ZAMRY BIN MD ZAIN, Business School Marketer, Malaysia
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Sales versus Marketing
This topic has been discussed in our MBA class.
S (...)
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White, United Kingdom
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Sales versus Marketing
Part of the issue is that some marketing courses/c (...)
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theodore ikpa, Accountant
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Marketing versus Sales
Marketing is macro while sales is micro in orienta (...)
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Carlo Maranzano, Strategy Consultant, Italy
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Trade Marketing
40 years ego I wrote my last work at University. I (...)
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