Branding what is essentially a commodity, and one which customers interact with only when something goes wrong, is an Herculean task.

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Everyone has one, but no one is willing to open them up and fix them if something goes wrong, he said.

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One thing that I have learned in this business is that just when everything is going great, something goes wrong.

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