Later, Mr. Lauzon and his CEO concluded that the business would benefit by shifting to an online, direct-to-consumer model.
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The founder goes on to explain that developer feedback will dictate what sort of features we'll see in the eventual consumer model.
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This strategy can be applied through in-store mobile points of sales, and also through a direct to consumer model that bypasses retail stores altogether.
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The DVD-9000 is a top-of-the-line consumer model and priced as such.
While competitors' pods are available on grocery-store shelves, the company says it won't budge from its direct-to-consumer model, selling coffee capsules online, in its boutiques and over the phone.
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Still, that's quite a bit faster than some printers out there, and it can accomplish the feat in three colors -- something no other consumer model we've seen is capable of.
Further, Nike has focused efforts on attempting to expand global outreach by using a direct-to-consumer business model.
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Happily, any brand, ad, media platform, or consumer consumption model can be measured for engagement in this manner.
Edmund Amann, senior lecturer in social sciences at Manchester University, told CNN that Brazil's economy is experiencing a consumer-borrowing model of growth.
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Li Ning last week said it wants to move to a more consumer-oriented model, opening more of its own shops and factory outlets rather than franchising them out to third parties or relying on wholesalers to distribute their products.
Telemarketing is a scripted, single-call-close, almost always targeting a small-ticket, business to consumer (B2C) model.
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On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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Still, the 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD plus-powered touchscreen display, HDMI output, and relatively compact size (26% smaller than the HC1) may actually help this cam live up to Sony's hype and become the first consumer-oriented HD model to the gain a foothold in the coveted soccer mom demographic upon its April debut.
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Unlike traditional businesses, where you may have a choice about whether or not to use a data-ubiquity business model, in Consumer Web businesses, there is usually no choice.
The tight integration of content experiences music, video, games, apps into the device is the new de facto model for selling consumer electronics of all shapes and sizes.
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You might read consumer reports and research the model.
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Shares of the electric carmaker surged 20.8% in morning trading, driven higher by surprisingly strong profits after the bell Wednesday and a rave review of the Model S from Consumer Reports.
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In Eloqua and Marketo the model of the consumer is expanded from what they are doing on the web site to what they are doing in any channel that can be recorded.
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When an Indian consumer acquired a low-tier model, he was already reviewing the features of the mid-tier model.
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But the 1992 Cable Act, far from being a misstep, as opponents suggest, is a model for pro-consumer, pro-competitive government intervention.
Apple was the sole model for establishing a consumer technology platform.
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Investors puzzled over its hybrid consumer-and-enterprise business model, which depends on attracting consumers but selling services mainly to businesses, and its focus on the less-flashy world of professional connections.
After we integrated the consumer activities into the new business model, we worked closely as a team to craft a clear message about the change to all our key stakeholders: investors, advisors and our existing customers.
My way of making sense of all of this starts with a model for understanding the consumer I recently found in a product from Baynote, which focuses on making personalized product and content recommendations but which can also be used for analytical purposes.
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The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.
When I decided to get my own 47-inch flat-screen TV, I did my due diligence in Consumer Reports, decided on a Samsung model and ordered it from Amazon.com.
Of course selling a fridge once or twice in the lifetime of a consumer is not the high recurrence business model of sugar-water vendors targeting impressionable children and exploiting their apetite for sugar and instant gratification.
No car currently manufactured deserves the coveted best car trophy, and that includes Consumer Reports' 99-point Tesla Model S. Personal transportation needs are uniquely individual, based on occupation, regional location, household size, income and, of course, taste.
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