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Customer Service Associates (CSA) Expansion

Anonymous

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Customer Service Associates are coming to a territory near you, very soon!
They are the true "sample droppers" of our pharmaceutical industry. CSA's have no formal product training and do not talk products. They only collect signatures, leave coupons and formulary information. They sample send Nexium (which makes them very popular!), Symbicort, and Vimovo. They expanded these positions at the end of last year!

This week CSA's added another product.........Crestor! WOW! Is this the true future of AstraZeneca? What do you think these reps are being paid?! Is this the end of MCR2?
 




What is the down side? If your access to an office is based on samples and not the knowledge you bring you are a CSA with a PSS paycheck. To be free to have someone spend time on Managed care leaves me time to sell. Of course you are already back in your car because your opener of "do you need samples" came with a no