营销不是销售，不是传统意义上的“卖东西”，不单是商业活动，它是个人和集体通过创造、提供出售并通过与别人交换产品和价值，以获得所需所欲之物的社会和管理的过程。它包括几个核心概念：欲望和需求：人类除了维持生存的物品，人们还对娱乐、教育等有着强烈的欲望，并表现出强烈的爱好。
产品：人们靠产品满足自己的需要和欲望，所以产品是指任何能用来满足人类需要的东西，包括服务。销售和营销的区别之一就是，营销把目光放在顾客的需要而非产品本身上。
价值、成本和满意：综合考虑产品、服务满足人们需求程度的高低和所要付出的成本是必要的，惟有如此才能做出正确的选择。
交换、交易和关系：交换是过程而不是事件，交换达成交易的产生，而交易是终结点。为此，营销者要缩短交换过程，以达成更多交易。精明的营销者会和消费者、分销商、供应商建立长期的、信任的和互利的关系。因此，营销已经从追求每个交易利润最大化变为追求其他各方利益关系最大化。
市场：是各种不同需求的现实的、潜在的顾客群。市场＝人口＋购买力＋购买意愿。
对于市场营销，我们可以建立一个模型：
基本需求/市场/欲望/交易/核心概念/产品需求/
市场营销观念和销售观念是在对待组织、顾客和社会三者利益冲突上不同的观念。
销售观念认为，如果听其自然的话，消费者通常不会足量购买一个组织的产品，因此，有必要进行积极推销和进行大量促销活动，即认为销售数量和企业促销努力成正比。作为现代营销之父的菲利普·科特勒先生认为：“当顾客步入商品陈列室，企业推销员便开始揣摩来者的心思，如果有一位顾客喜欢某种式样的汽车，推销员就会马上告诉他，另一位顾客正好也打算买这辆汽车，因此要当机立断。如果顾客因为价格而犹豫不决，推销员马上又会提出他可以找经理商谈，把价格降得更低些。这位顾客等了10分钟，推销员就满面春风地出来说：‘老板起初不同意，但我好歹说服了他。’这样做的目的是为了激发顾客立即购买。”而营销观念是与销售观念大相径庭的。彼得·杜拉克说过：“某些推销工作总是重要的，然而营销的目的就是要使推销成为多余。营销的目的在于在于深刻地认识和了解顾客，从而使产品或服务完全适合他的需要而形成产品自我售。”简单来说，营销以消费者为中心、以竞争为基础、以协调为手段，企业利润是营销的结果而不是企业的目的。
简单一点，可以这样理解：销售的目的是把产品推销给用户换回金钱，而营销的目的是让用户拿着金钱主动购买你的产品
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Marketing
Key concepts
Product ? Pricing
Distribution ? Service ? Retail
Brand management
Account-based marketing
Marketing ethics
Marketing effectiveness
Market research
Market segmentation
Marketing strategy
Marketing management
Market dominance
Promotional content
Advertising ? Branding ? Underwriting
Direct marketing ? Personal Sales
Product placement ? Publicity
Sales promotion ? Sex in advertising
Promotional media
Printing ? Publication ? Broadcasting
Out-of-home ? Internet marketing
Point of sale ? Promotional items
Digital marketing ? In-game
In-store demonstration ? Brand Ambassador
Word of mouth
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Marketing is the process by which companies create customer interest in products or services. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business development.[1] It is an integrated process through which companies build strong customer relationships and create value for their customers and for themselves.[1]
Marketing is used to identify the customer, to keep the customer, and to satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that marketing management is one of the major components of business management. Marketing evolved to meet the stasis in developing new markets caused by mature markets and overcapacities in the last 2-3 centuries.[citation needed] The adoption of marketing strategies requires businesses to shift their focus from production to the perceived needs and wants of their customers as the means of staying profitable.[citation needed]
The term marketing concept holds that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions.[2] It proposes that in order to satisfy its organizational objectives, an organization should anticipate the needs and wants of consumers and satisfy these more effectively than competitors.[2]
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1 Further definitions
2 Evolution of marketing
