Ask Many people tend to think marketing is advertisement and digital marketing is online advertisement

[sandbox]

Many people tend to think marketing is advertisement and digital marketing is online advertisement, but marketing is everything that drives sales: from including the product's features that are in demand to creating a positive brand image.

According to the classic marketing theory, marketing model includes 4Ps: Product, Price, Place and Promotion, which can describe marketing as offering the right product in the right place at the right price and at the right time.

Thus, however cool your product is, it won't be lucrative without marketing, no one will know about it and no one will buy it, so even if you don't do adds or SEO, once you start a business and try to sell your product, you start doing marketing and the success of your business depends on how well you do the latter.

 

[Brajet]

They figure it's the same crap but on Instagram or TikTok instead. Nah, not even close.Marketing is the whole game: figuring out what people actually want, making stuff they'll love, setting prices, and getting it in front of them without being a sleaze. Advertising is just the loud "HEY BUY THIS!" part.Digital marketing does all that online. It's not just throwing ads everywhere; it's listening, chatting, and turning random scrollers into real fans.Basically, ads are the fireworks. Marketing is the whole damn party.

 

[Dean101]

But it's actually more than that. Marketing is really about understanding what people want, creating something useful for them, and finding the best way to connect with them. Ads are just one small part of it. Digital marketing isn't only posting ads on the internet either. It also includes things like social media posts, emails, websites, videos, and even how a brand talks to people online. It's about getting attention, building trust, and keeping customers interested over time.

 

[Newman]

That's the mistake that many people are making, marketing whether online, which is known as digital marketing or the traditional ways, you need to make sure that you doing marketing. Marketing will let people know more about your products abd even want to patronize you if they are convinced with the marketing