Abstract:
This research was a cross-sectional study whose objective was to study the learning styles
of simple marketing and sales system for Thai people. The research process was divided into 3 stages.
Stage 1: in qualitative research, literature and related research were synthesized and there was the focus
group discussion conducted by a panel of experts who were involved in marketing and sales, and 9
directors of Chaipattana Foundation. Stage 2: in action research, non-toxic longans were sold with the
simple sales method discovered by the researcher for 2 years.Step 3: in action research, there was a
process of measuring marketing and sales understanding with sample groups and the researcher
explained and asked them to answer the questions. There were 6 sample groups which were divided into
5 regions: 1) Northern farmers group, 2) Central Region Farmers group, 3) Eastern Farmers group,
4) Southern Farmers Group, and 5) Northeastern farmersgroup. The instrument was a questionnaire
based on content analysis from the focus group discussion and relevant literature and researches, and a
summary of 2 years of the trial of non-toxic longan sales.
The results of the 3-stage study revealed that there should be 2 sets of learning guide of
simple marketing and sales system for Thai people and the contents should include theories about
simple marketing and sales. In fact, there should be 11 issues in these two sets of the manual guide.
The issues in the first set of the manual guide should include 1) the product, 2) the price, 3) the place of
sales, and 4) the method of stimulating customers interest, decision to purchase and repurchase. The
second set of the learning guide should include: 1) To whom should the products be sold?, 2) How
should the sellers make the products different?, 3) How should the sellers make people remember the
products?, 4) How should the sellers open the buyer's mind?, 5) How should the sellers close the sales?,
and 6) How should the sellers be interested in every people around the products, such as family
members, neighbors, people who come to collect the goods, stores, community leaders and related
organizations and how should the buyers make everybody to say the same good thing for the products?,
7) How should the sellers consider these things: 1) the upstream (the origin of quality raw materials
should be taken into account), 2) middle stream (production processes should be taken into account),
and 3) downstream (sales and marketing). To adopt the theory of marketing, local Thai people can use
the learning guides in two levels. The first set of the learning guide would be used by people who have
never sold longans. This guideline enables them to sell the products. The second set of the learning
guide would be used by people who regularly sell products and the guide should help them increase
their sales.