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employees are well trained to impart a sense of quality to their products, he said.
He knows that when a catalog is mailed they will be deluged with calls in 10 days exactly. As many as 1,000 calls come in each day and they will be bunched up at certain peak times. He said it is a "“very statistical business.” They know their customers well.
The typical Faith Mountain customer is a 35 to 55year-old working mother with a dog and cat. She prefers the country style with, for instance, teddy bears on her sweater. She finds her home a refuge from the world. And 99 percent of the customers are women. The one percent of men who call are ordering for women. The store has not yet been successful with men’s products.
About 88 percent of the orders are filled with credit cards and 12 percent, with checks. While the telephone operators are waiting for a call, they process mail orders which are 25 percent of their business. Approximately 15 million catalogs are sent out each year. The names are often purchased from list brokers, such as L.L.Bean. The source code on the catalog tells from what list the name originated. Marketing is being done when the orders are placed.
When the store closes at 11 p.m., a New England answering service takes the calls until 7 a.m. California is their biggest state said Mr. Eastham and the time there is three hours later. (The service, although expensive, is used for the quarterly picnics.) The orders are printed on a “picking ticket” and sent to the distribution center.
“Welcome to the jungle,” someone said on entering the maze of dress racks and bins of
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