So, enterprise software companies tend to look and act in the way their big clients want.
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"For big clients, Jerry was the man, " said Greg Coleman, a former top Yahoo executive.
While Mcgarrybowen's partners want big clients, they sometimes pursue small projects that offer long-term payoffs.
The same dozen big agencies are always playing musical chairs with the same big clients.
Nor do big clients seem to care whether their banks offer a full range of services.
The recession dampened sales, particularly to big clients in the financial sector, but those markets are rebounding.
Right now, Navteq already has big clients such as Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, Mozila, Oracle and almost countless car companies.
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Too many of us are still fish out of water when it comes to landing big clients and bringing in business.
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The firm also needs to work harder to keep big clients sweet.
The lucky or fortunate big clients who are able to buy shares are strictly ordered to avoid selling when the price starts to shoot up.
As Forbes noted in October, Patrick was likely to target Wells Fargo and JPMorgan in helping her 23 big clients recover MBS losses related to the housing meltdown.
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As the political scientist Stanley Kelley once explained, when modern advertising began, the big clients were just as interested in advancing a political agenda as a commercial one.
As big clients' interest in traditional broking services wanes and the cost of insurance plummets, the brokers are doing their best to collect advisory fees along with sales commissions.
Advisors should concentrate on finding, not manufacturing big clients.
And he has openly encouraged big clients not only to pay fees rather than commissions, but to pay fees based on results, with success being judged by such measures as the client's sales.
It has 20 million household customers, and Capellas claims hands-on service for big clients has prevented a single major account from defecting (although FedEx, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have taken some business elsewhere).
Drew Hilles, national director of audio for Google, points out that some of the company's radio ads won't be sold online but rather via a direct sales force focused on "relationship-based sales" with big clients, just as the company does already with some of its online ad sales.
They may even split the legal profession in two: big corporate clients will pair off with the big-five firms, leaving independent law firms with private clients only.
In each of those it's just frankly about servicing what are largely big institutional clients who are anxious to have a relationship with us.
Insurers are competing with investment banks to serve big corporate clients.
Individual investors can replicate some of what Salient and Bridgewater do for their big institutional clients with a portfolio of as few as 11 exchange-traded funds.
And though Global billed itself as a network operator, it lacked big corporate clients and acted more like a construction company, dependent on laying new fiber to sell to carriers.
When Steve and Jenny Chang semiretired from Trend Micro in 2005, it was well established in major corporate sectors like automotive and telecom, and with big government clients, including the Pentagon.
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Signaling global ambitions, like Droga5 and Sid Lee, who appeal to big global clients, Anomaly sold a majority stake to mid-size communications holding company MDC, which will help finance its international expansion.
Andersen was convicted for shredding documents even as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into the finances of one of its big accounting clients, Enron, which collapsed into bankruptcy in Dec. 2001.
Puris has knitted together a network of 32 new-media agencies to offer their services to the kind of big-brand clients he took care of for decades.
We determine the odds for, and extent of, those moves from our proprietary analysis of the way the volume market-makers servicing big-fund clients protect the at-risk positions that must be taken as they compete for this lucrative business.
It has managed to bid alongside potential clients for big private equity deals.
Bank loans remain tough to get for smaller firms, as Chinese banks tend to focus on the big state-owned clients.
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