You can also change the way you monetize their offerings, rethinking how you charge customers.
Perhaps some day salesmen could even charge customers by the hour for their visits.
Mobile phone provider Three says it will not charge customers extra to upgrade to the 4G data service.
Though that will tie up its own capital longer, Verghese says he can charge customers more for this.
But if it stays at the ISE, we do not charge customers anything for the contracts that they trade here.
Both US Airways and American have tried to charge customers fees just to sit in the front of the coach cabin.
ATMs was forced last month to promise not to double-charge customers for withdrawals, and to inform them in advance of withdrawal fees.
But if they want to make a recording of the OpenTok session, TokBox has announced that it will charge customers for that feature.
While carriers have to pay higher subsidies for smartphones such as the iPhone, such devices allow carriers to charge customers for data plans.
Yet customers may feel it unfair for retailers to charge customers differently for the same product, based on hunches about how much they can be stung for.
The top benefit of the settlement, small-business owners say, isn't that the ability to charge customers more, but to negotiate fees with the credit-card networks and banks.
Not many shopping malls can charge customers an exit fee (departure charge), a parking fee, and even charge taxis and buses to bring people to and from the premises.
In order to encourage credit card use among the public, Visa and MasterCard did not want stores to up-charge customers who wanted to use their convenient tools for purchases.
As I posted in September, Netflix faces competition when it comes to buying the licenses to stream content and it also must contend with bandwidth suppliers who charge customers more money when they exceed their monthly bandwidth allotment.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington and alleges that Visa and MasterCard violate antitrust laws by placing restrictions on the prices these independent ATM operators can charge customers using other networks such as STAR or TransFund.
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Bundling is lucrative for cable providers, who can charge customers for expanded subscriptions, and is even more lucrative for the owners of cable networks, who can force cable providers to distribute marginal channels by threatening to withhold popular ones.
Electric and natural gas utilities that provide partial (or full) service to consumers are heavily regulated by government agencies, which set the price utilities charge customers for electric and gas service, the terms of that service, capital budgets and construction plans and so forth.
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The broad outline of the rate hike was approved by state regulators in March to help bail out the state's two largest utilities, Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, who have been caught in a squeeze between escalating wholesale prices and the rates they can charge customers.
After the passage of the Credit Card Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, which placed tough new restrictions on some of the fees that card companies can charge customers, consumer advocates complained that some issuers were circumventing or ignoring key strictures of the law to make up for lost fee income.
Insurers are also limited in what they can charge older customers, and they are not allowed to turn away sick people or charge them more.
The Commission has established limits on the amount mobile phone companies can charge their customers.
The government, therefore, does not necessarily cap what water companies can charge their customers.
Mindful of this objection, Mr Ergen has promised to charge such customers the same price as any others.
But it says each bank will decide what to charge its customers.
The investment company Alliance Trust is increasing its annual management charge for customers who use it to open a stocks and shares Isa.
Rather, charge your customers a subscription, put up with the much smaller market but make larger profits as a result of lower costs.
Two years ago, Oftel made Cellnet and Vodafone reduce the levy they charge BT customers for calling their mobiles and costs did come down.
Dooley's group is particularly peeved that Georgia lawmakers are allowing the utility to charge its customers for the project's finance costs before it produces power.
The problem, the government said, is that ObamaCare requires health insurers to cover individuals with preexisting conditions at the same premiums they charge other customers.
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