"I only have one request, and that is, the original release date is set on August 20th, which is 10 am the day after tomorrow. If any department fails to deliver before then, the department manager will be fired, and all the employees in the department will have their bonuses deducted for a year … No, all three years of bonuses will be deducted!" Kristof was furious during Motorola's internal meeting.
In fact, on the second day of the Daqian's release, Kristof had already requested the entire company to speed up the process and strive to bring forward the mobile phone's global release date from August 18th to August 7th.
As a result, the company immediately complained that it was impossible to complete the task no matter what. Helplessly, the release date was changed to August 10th.
But on the 9th, there was still a large number of goods in the warehouse that had not been shipped out. Kristof asked the logistics department what was going on, and they said that the person in charge of the logistics department was sick with the flu and was hospitalized. No one had stamped the shipping documents.
According to the company's rules, if the documents were not stamped, the drivers could not ship them out. So, even though they knew that the mobile phone's global release date was on the 10th, a large number of mobile phones were still delayed in the warehouse for three days. If Kristof had not personally questioned them, they would still be in the warehouse!
In the end, the furious Kristof directly fired the head of the logistics department and the manager who was on leave. All the drivers in the logistics department had their bonuses deducted for a year. Only then were the goods allowed to be shipped out of the warehouse to all parts of the United States.
But because of this, the mobile phone's release date could not be decided on August 10th, and the release date could only be changed to August 15th.
But the problem was that Motorola had already announced that the mobile phone's release date would be brought forward to August 10th. This time, the date was changed again. As expected, Motorola was going to be scolded badly.
Fortunately, the internet was not developed enough in this era. Otherwise, Motorola would have experienced the power of cyber-violence.
But even if the release date was changed to the 15th, something terrible still happened. Because the release date was changed twice in a row, the company's internal procedures were in chaos. The company was arguing with each other, especially the operations department, which was right under Kristoff's nose. They actually stopped the shipment of goods to the distributors because the dates of the two documents couldn't be verified. Even if the distributors received the goods, they had to return the goods. They had to verify the dates of the documents before they could continue.
When Kristof found out about the operations department's godly operation, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. Then, the operations department manager honorably resigned.
However, the manager of the operations department was not a pushover. His father was one of the major directors of the company. He had a powerful backer and was very powerful. Then, the entire operations department went on strike, delaying the meeting for another day.
In the end, Christoff became ruthless. He colluded with a group of directors behind the scenes and directly chased the other party's backer out of the board of directors. Then, he cleaned up the entire operation department from top to bottom. Only then did the situation stabilize.
But because of this, Motorola obviously could not deliver the goods on the 15th, so the release date was changed to the 20th, which was five days later than the original release date. This made Motorola one of the world's laughingstocks.
That was why Kristof Kristof said those words at the beginning of this chapter.
Because of the lessons learned from the operations department manager, this time, the release date of the Motorola STARTAC was very smooth. After a long time, the Motorola STARTAC was finally released worldwide on August 20th.
Kristof began to look forward to the beautiful life of his Motorola STARTAC.
After all, even the ugly Daqian 2 sold 328,000 units in a week. His beautiful Motorola STARTAC should sell at least 500,000 units a week!
At first, the script developed according to Kristof Kristof's expectations. Although there were three problems during the release, the Motorola STARTAC's appearance was still very good. Coupled with the free publicity from various media outlets, and the unimaginable attraction of flip phones to women, the Motorola STARTAC achieved a global sales record of more than 100,000 units on the first day of its release.
And about half of them were not interested in mobile phones. This time, they bought the Motorola STARTAC because it was so beautiful.
Therefore, Motorola's STARTAC set two records in one go. They were the first-day sales record and the sales record for the female market. Motorola's company was in an uproar. It seemed that it was time for Motorola to create its own brand new history.
In the following week, the Motorola STARTAC broke the record again. The Daqian 2's sales record of 228,000 units was completely defeated by the Motorola STARTAC's 387,000 units. On the other hand, the Nokia STARTAC also successfully launched and also set a sales record of 326,000 units.
This made Motorola even more proud. Among the three mobile phones this time, the Motorola STARTAC was the best at fighting. The mobile phone industry was destined to belong to Motorola in the future.
What Daqian and Nokia? This was a piece of cake!
After being anxious for several weeks, Kristoff finally breathed in fresh air. So much so that he was prepared to give Jia Yapeng a call and ask about the sales figures of the mobile phones of "The Big Thousand 2" in a friendly manner.
However, when Kristof dialed Boss Jia's phone number, a voice came from the receiver. "Sorry, the subscriber you have dialed is unavailable. Please try again later!"
"Hmm, what a lousy phone. I can't even get through to him!" Kristof snorted coldly. Before he had time to be proud, he suddenly remembered what happened at the press conference that day and the answer that came from the receiver.
"This guy, don't tell me he still put me on the blacklist!" Kristof was furious. His good mood was swept away. He was so angry that he wanted to add Jia Yapeng to his blacklist.
The problem was that the Motorola mobile phone did not have a blacklist function!
This made Kristof even more irritable.
However, the terrible thing was not over yet. In the afternoon, the secretary suddenly placed a newspaper on Kristof's desk quietly. The first page of the newspaper was a photo of Jia Yapeng holding the Daqian 2 mobile phone.
"Daqian 2 mobile phone sales exceeded 600,000 units in three weeks. Sales reached 257,000 units in the third week, achieving a rare reverse growth!" Although the title was a little long, it was clear enough at a glance. Kristof did not even need to read the content of the news.
"It's just two weeks early. If we had launched at the same time, our sales would have exceeded one million!" Kristof said proudly.
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