But it worked well in the end, and may persuade other companies to try something similar.
The vice president said he would try to persuade the company to reverse its decision.
Having put up some of the money himself, he persuaded local companies to donate materials.
He persuaded the company to revive the material and used it for an important part of his fall collection.
Sales were fairly good - not great, but strong enough to persuade the company to branch out even more.
By all accounts, no one was better at persuading companies to list their shares on the exchange.
Such limits have persuaded pharmaceutical companies to lower the cost to states of some medicines.
He thus described the programs as "a kind of moral campaign" to persuade Japanese companies to import more.
And he tries to persuade the company to give people enough time for their wounds to heal before they return to work.
The group persuaded the company to remove the Web pages of 7,000 known sexual predators.
