What is the difference between marketing, advertising, and public relations?

[Mr Bean]

Both advertising and P.R. are marketing-mix components. This is like asking what's the difference between medicine, stomatology and podiatry. I know you can do a research and find out yourself what advertising or P.R. means but in order to decide what career path you want to take you have to analyze yourself. Are you creative? Then go for advertising. Is diplomacy your major strength? Go for P.R. For both you have to be a people's person and you need a lot of skills.