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<text id=92TT0244>
<title>
Feb. 03, 1992: Business Notes:Marketing
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Feb. 03, 1992 The Fraying Of America
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 43
Business Notes
MARKETING
Knock, Knock No More
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<p> The Fuller Brush Man has been around since 1906, but he
hasn't been knocking on many doors in recent years. The sales
force, 30,000 in the 1950s, had dropped to 12,000 by last year.
Fuller's market penetration was less than 1%. Now the company
that instituted door-to-door selling 85 years ago is rebuilding
its sales force and changing its marketing strategy. Starting
this month, the Fuller Brush Man is abandoning door-to-door
sales in favor of a word-of-mouth network like Avon's and
Amway's.
</p>
<p> The man leading the controversial change, Stuart
Ochiltree, was an Avon man for 22 years until last year, when
he joined Fuller as president and CEO. To restore the company's
luster, he first trimmed the extraneous Avon-ish perfume, gifts
and jewelry offerings to focus on quality home-care products.
Then he launched the new marketing strategy, allowing sales
representatives to augment their own profits with bonuses earned
on sales made by distributors in their personal network. With
those incentives, the company hopes to expand its sales force
to 100,000 and quadruple sales from the pres ent $50 million by
1995. Company research shows more than 80% of all Americans know
who the Fuller Brush Man is. He'll now be networking, not
knocking.
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