Paramount Pep (1923)

2 Paramount Pep Quick Action Imperative Now General Business Conditions Reaching Normal State. We Should Share in the Improvement By George W. Weeks — Divisional Sales Mgr. With few exceptions, there isn't an Exchange Manager with the company who can look with pride at the results of his office during February and March. Even with some justified contributing causes and a list of well founded alibis a mile long, we can't, any of us, kid ourselves into thinking we are world-beaters. The problems of February and March may repeat themselves in June and July in spite of everything we can do, unless we anticipate them and prepare for them now. We sailed into February and March confident of getting quota or more from every branch and not giving real thought to the problems that might confront us, with a result that was mighty disappointing. We have confronting us now, collectively and individually, a direct obligation to Mr. Zukor and Mr. Kent and the company which not a man can fail to realize if he is honestly sincere in his efforts. We are all of us directly in debt to the company for every dime we are short in our quota from January 1st to date, and if the Paramount Selling Organization, consisting of the livest wires and hardest workers in any industry, are not individual men enough to shoulder the responsibility of making up the shortage, then we will well deserve the criticism we are bound to get if we fail. The vast expenditures of the Production Department and all company plans are made far in advance, on the strength of certain promises of revenue returns from the Department of Distribution. Mr. Kent and all of us, and every man in the field made a direct promise to deliver — we may have some justified reasons up to now for the showing we have made, but these alibis can’t pay off our obligations. The facts are that the biggest line-up of good pictures you have ever released will be available for you for April, May, June, and July; that business reports to us from practically every part of the country convince zis of the return of big business; that we are well sold in all our key points and many smaller ones, and there are a lot of unsold possibilities. The above, which cannot be denied, together with the acknowledged ability of our entire selling force, plus the pride we certainly all have in making good on what is expected of us, should certainly be a combination of all the incentive and requirements necessary to make up that quota. Let’s demonstrate in quick action that it can be done, and that the selling organization are game enough and clever enough and loyal enough to meet the demands made upon us. Let’s make April, May, June, and July the biggest in our history, and gross rentals far enough over quota to more than make up for what we are now behind. Let’s not forget the hot weather of June and July, and protect those months now. All this and more can be done if every man will do his share and work untiringly and everlastingly. We can finish the season in a Blaze of Glory with credit to every man, and take unending pride in the accomplishment, if the Fighting Spirit and the Red Blood of Paramount zvill mobilize and zvork from this month on. GEO. W. WEEKS. APRIL and MAY GO TO IT. Ross Week a Success For the first time in the history of the Detroit District a special drive was put over by the boys of that district in honor of Harry Ross, the District Manager. The week ended April 7th and furnished a very good start for the April drive and judging from the pep displayed by Ross’s Go-Getters, they are going to show somebody their dust in this big drive for April and May. The success of the drive there was a glorious testimonial to Harry Ross and readily showed just how much the boys in that district think of this live wire. 01’ Man World Knows What’s Good