Engaging a customer base is of course a very important part of social media.
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Yet traditional firms still have three huge advantages: brand, capital and a customer base.
In professional sports, the ownership and management of each team tries to build a customer base.
Intentional abdication of a customer base is wrong unless a new customer is ready to step in.
Net 1 has built a customer base of 3.6 million accounts in Africa.
Its E-Plus provides cellular phone service to a customer base of 1.7 million, growing by 70, 000 new customers a month.
If Replay and TiVo can build up a customer base before others steal the show, their business plans could work.
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Indeed, EnerNOC currently boasts about 7, 100 megawatts of DR capacity across a customer base of about 4, 900 accounts and 11, 400 sites.
The company has grown by 1, 262% over the past five years and now has a customer base of 2.5 million users.
As he gained confidence (and a customer base), Lee-Chin took more risks.
How big a customer base can it build a relationship with, and keep in touch with, to become a central pillar in their lives?
Firmus supplies gas to about 20, 000 homes and businesses throughout Northern Ireland and competes with Phoenix, which has a customer base of about 130, 000.
The practice includes hard assets like chairs and x-ray machines, but it also has a customer base that religiously returns every six months for a cleaning.
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Instead, they characterize the acquisition as involving 67 employees in Indiana and Utah, who have been serving a customer base of 8, 000 firms with 5 million users.
Penney locations fell 26% in the latest quarter, a sign that the 110-year-old department is having trouble maintaining a customer base as transitions to the specialty department store Johnson envisions.
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For their part, foreign banks are more likely to finance multinationals and try to build a customer base among wealthier urbanites in Myanmar, which is decades behind countries like Indonesia and Thailand in financial services.
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Do you think less outlets to buy games and less possibility to recoup the cost of gaming is going to have a positive long term effect in building a customer base that may buy new later?
From LEGO sets to enterprise IT equipment, examples abound of establishing a loyal customer base through the development of a flexible framework.
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Sure, a lot of people would say that we could subsidize the freemium business model for a few years until we built up a loyal customer base, then switch to a paid service.
"AOL already has a huge customer base, and it's a matter of appropriately marketing to that, " says Forrester analyst Maribel Lopez.
But having a partner like GE, with a global salesforce and a huge customer base, is likely to prove a huge boost for the smart grid companies backed by GE.
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Earlier this month, Cisco completed deals for Procket Networks , which sold high-end, high-bandwidth routers and had a solid customer base, and Parc Technologies , a developer of software to streamline network traffic.
For most investors in technology start-ups, the typical approach entails a five-year investment horizon that will enable the company to build market share and a sizeable customer base, making it ripe for a high-value liquidity event.
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"We're buying a large deposit franchise with a loyal customer base, " said PNC chief executive James Rohr on a conference call Friday.
"Basically, they are purchasing a very strong customer base and a global network, " says Vik Grover, an equity analyst with Needham.
The stores have a strong customer base eager to snap up discounted stocking stuffers.
Another example of the challenges in appealing to a diverse customer base involves the identity of J.
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