Opinions on Marketing Terms

 What is the difference, in your opinion (don’t look up definitions) between marketing, advertising, and propaganda?

Based on my current knowledge, marketing is the process of a vendor making a product or idea aesthetically desirable to a consumer. This idea can be implicated on either a small or large scale, from small businesses to large multinational corporations.

In my opinion, ideas such as advertising and propaganda are somewhat part of the overall concept of marketing. For instance, advertising is a general form of marketing. It is when a vendor tries to make a product or idea desirable to the consumer by showing them how useful it is. A typical form of advertising is a commercial on television. Television ads for products such as cars often make the viewer aware of qualities such as safety features and price. Both of these categories are very valuable to a person interested in buying a car.

My idea of propaganda is that it is when the qualities being used to persuade a buyer are made more desirable than they actually are. This can usually be in the form of an exaggeration or by not including important details about a product or idea when it is being advertised.

Through my opinions, these three terms seem to be a subcategory of the next. If that is incorrect, what qualities separate marketing from advertising or marketing from propaganda if there are any?