IBM, which has a huge business serving banks but has had its own sales challenges in China, will presumably be of help transforming Guangdong's lousy IT systems.
"A lot of people forget that the Tesla Roadster was recalled several times, and they had a lawsuit with a supplier, and sales challenges," he said.
But the sales challenges that the Big Three face nationwide are far worse in California, the nation's largest auto market and an important trendsetter.
1. "Tell me about your challenges with regards to... .. Every great salesperson must first understand his prospects' particular sales challenges.
I read the available material, loved it, recognized it posed marketing and sales challenges, but also recognized that the editor was right: it did deserve to be republished and accessible to a wider readership.
"That's where the sales challenge is," he said.
Even given the sales challenge, Steve Cannon, the vice president of marketing for Mercedes-Benz USA, decided not to echo the recession-conscious marketing that other car manufacturers have used.
The abdication of major toy retailers here is part of a broader industry consolidation; Toys R UsUs and KB Toys have downsized in recent years, their sales challenged in particular by Wal-Mart and Target.
"How will startups deal with the ad sales challenge — how do you compete with Yahoo and ESPN?" He notes that if they absolutely needed to, they could probably cut costs and get to profitability at some point next year, but that would mean cutting a lot of the things keeping them ahead of ESPN in terms of innovation.
Yet there was Universal's "Best Man Holiday" this weekend, ringing up $30.6 million in ticket sales, challenging the juggernaut "Thor" and coming in with a number that would have actually topped the charts on plenty of other weekends.
