Chapter 59: Provincial Capital, Urban-Rural Fringe
The Jiuzhou Automobile stores in Jiangzhou City and several others nearby began promoting the new Jiuzhou Mini, attracting the attention of many consumers.
Consumers who had given up on buying one because of its major battery flaw had grown interested again.
Even before sales officially began, plenty of the new Jiuzhou Minis had already been reserved.
Meanwhile, Jiuzhou's sales staff in other cities had also gradually started getting to work.
A sales pitch only needed to be practical; it didn't have to be especially novel.
Besides, the internet still wasn't very convenient at the time. Most people bought cars by visiting dealerships and 4S stores and listening to the sales staff explain the vehicles.
Then they would consider their own impressions of the brand, ask friends who knew about cars for their opinions, and finally place an order.
That was the basic process for ordinary young consumers buying a car. As for the older folks, cars were rarely marketed to them at all.
Going directly to the crowds to promote a product was something quite novel, too.
As the sales staff began publicizing the cars at places where older men and women gathered,
many of them grew interested in a vehicle they could charge at home, drive without a license, and use even in their old age.
The location: Miaoshan Village, on the outskirts of the provincial capital in Xichuan Province, near the edge of Sansheng Flower Town.
Sansheng Flower Town hadn't yet been developed into the polished destination it would become in the future, but it already showed some signs of what was to come.
Excavators, bulldozers, and busy workers could often be seen along the roads.
The Jiuzhou sales staff had chosen to promote their cars here for a simple reason: the