what is the difference between marketing and network marketing? Which gives better results?

If you enjoy people, are a good communicator and a hard worker, either direct sales or network marketing can provide an accelerated income potential. It's ultimately up to you to figure out which best fits your needs and goals

Network Marketing involves the use of agents or middlemen who are responsible for creating awareness in the products and resultantly gets reward for any increase in the sales volume.

 

This means that the company which engages in the production process does not pay any amount in advertisement, personal selling, public relations or sales promotion but sales the products to a chain to middelemen called networks. The middlemen are responsible for increasing the number of those who engages in buying and selling th products. Any inrease in the sales volume, the middlemen gets what is called commission and promotion from ordinary member up manager, senior manager and director level.

Let's agree on that, Network Marketing is being very efficient tool these days, based on the trust and good repetition (word of mouth) but when we define Network Marketing, it is Direct selling method in which independent-agents serve as distributors of goods and services, and are encouraged to build and manage their own sales force by recruiting and training other independent agents but as we see it's Direct selling, and Direct selling is part from Promotional mix, and the promotion is part from the Marketing Mix ( Price, product, promotion, place, People, Physical evidence, Process) it's called 7Ps finally Marketing is the management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitability.
from what i mentioned above, if we want to have best results, we should know the real meaning of Marketing because it is a mix between the Art and science, we cannot take part like promotion and focus on it and ignore the different angles.

Marketing has to do with making sales of someone else’s product, and these are typically one-time sales but they can be recurring.
Network marketing is when you are a distributor or representative for a company, and you make sales to customers and /or business partners who then re-order many times down the road, giving you credit forever on what they order.
The result depends on what you are looking to do, personall.
If you enjoy working one-on-one with others and like the idea of creating a residual income, network marketing is probably a great fit.
If you prefer the idea of being able to work completely from home on your computer and would rather be able to create multiple streams of income, selling as many different products as you wish, affiliate marketing might be the best choice for you.
The fact is many online marketers do both.
They oftentimes have one or network marketing businesses they are building but they use and refer different affiliate products to other marketers as well, in order to provide an additional stream of income to help fund their business ventures.