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Personal selling is an effective marketing tool for industrial<br />

products. A good industrial marketer must be very good<br />

in customer focus and able to communicate customers’<br />

demands along the organization’s internal supply chain to<br />

produce the products and services that fit the customers’<br />

requirements.<br />

Modern Marketing Concepts<br />

Many successful companies grew their businesses<br />

from small enterprises into large companies. Some of them<br />

become very successful multinational companies. Toyota<br />

grew from Mr. Toyoda, who made textile spinning mills. Du<br />

Pont grew from Mr. E. I. Du Pont, who established a black<br />

powder (gun powder) plant in Delaware 250 years ago.<br />

Bridgestone, which is the largest tire manufacturer, grew<br />

its business from Mr. Ishibashi, who made rubber shoes for<br />

farmers before World War II. These successful businessmen<br />

grew their businesses by being hard working and<br />

dedicated to their work. The one thing they had in common<br />

was that they grew their businesses by adding new ideas to<br />

generate differentiation of their products from others. They<br />

Banja Junhasavasdikul, Ph.D.<br />

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