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16 An Inauspicious Beginning
We needed to show our potential customers that we were very different from any other shipping service. We tried to keep things simple by providing representatives with a sales talker, a Dick and Jane story: These are our planes, these are our trucks, this is our system, here is our sorting facility. Our system was so simple, so unique, and so new that it required explaining. Our sales group put up posters of the Federal Express planes in each prospect’s shipping area as a reminder of our closed-loop system, but that still wasn’t enough.
In the early days, people had a difficult time understanding the concept of shipping through the hub. Diane, one of our customer service agents doing telemarketing at the time, ...
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