Promotion and marketing aren't the same thing. Promotion is just one tactic under marketing's broader umbrella. An exterminator putting up signs during a cockroach job grabs attention but doesn't actually market anything. Real marketing creates conditions for a story to spread and helps people achieve their goals.
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Marketing isn't the same thing as promotion. People often use these two words interchangeably, but they're two very different things. All promotion is marketing, but not all marketing is promotion. If an exterminator puts up signs in front of a fancy restaurant while they're inside killing a cockroach infestation, that's promotion, but it's certainly not good marketing. Marketing is creating the conditions for a story to spread so you can help people get to where they hope to go. It's a chance to create products and services that lead to change. If engineered properly, promotion can and support that. But unless you're careful, promotion can also look like a selfish hustle for attention. If you have to interrupt, trick, or coerce people to get the word out, you're probably doing too much promotion and not enough marketing.