Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to study behavior adopting the service to advertise of entrepreneurs in free magazines, 2) to study the factors of marketing mix resulting to service adaptation to advertise of entrepreneurs in free magazine, 3) to study the relation between characters of entrepreneurs and behavior adopting the service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazine, 4) to study the relation between marketing mix factors and behavior adopting the service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazine, and 5) to study the opinions and problems in adopting service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazines in Koh Samui District, Surat Thani Province. Data was collected from the sample where were 100 establishments once using the service to advertise in free magazines by convenient sampling method. The statistics used were namely, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t - test and Chi-square Test and Cramers V.
The research results found that 1) behavior adopting service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazines in Koh Samui District, Surat - Thani Province found that most entrepreneurs used the services to advertise in free magazine with 1 brand, using the service to advertise in Essential magazine, use the budget for advertising of 20,001 - 30,000 Baht/year, the reasons for using the service was it attract well, adopting the magazine with monthly issue frequency, having the frequency on changing the patterns of advertisement media in every year, advertising only tourism festivals. The interesting area position for advertising was inner front cover and receiving information for advertisement from the advices of known person or the person who once advertised in magazine before. 2) The marketing mix factors resulting to services adopting to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazines in Koh Samui District, Surat - Thani Province in overall was in much level. When considering as each aspect found that were all much level all descending order namely, aspects of locations or distribution, aspect of price, aspect of marketing promotion, aspect of personnel, aspect of physical characters, aspect of management process and aspect of products. 3) The relation between characters of entrepreneurs and behaviors adopting the service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazines in Koh Samui District, Surat - Thani Province found that had statistically significant relation at level of .05. 4) The relation between marketing mix factors and behavior adopting the service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazine in Koh Samui District, Surat - Thani Province found that had statistically significant relation at level of .05. 5) The opinions and problems in adopting service to advertise of entrepreneur in free magazines in Koh Samui District, Surat - Thani Province found that most opinions required free magazine manufactures increased media distribution to goal customers group in airport by using English in presentation and off festival duration, the entrepreneurs would have more advertisement if media producers increased the service of discount when extending a contract for advertisement and the problems in advertising of entrepreneur in free magazine found that limited media distribution way was the most, secondly was not able to change the advertisement in time and often having personnel change of media producers.