Zappos, Amazon, Google and other newer players got where they are by being nimble, creative, and relentless about good customer service.
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This is a perfect example of personalized service, self-service, and creative marketing all rolled into one.
Run by the same staff and found in the same location, the childcare service offers a safe, healthy and creative place for the children to go whilst the adults are studying.
But competition would bring lower prices, better service and perhaps more creative ways of connecting the poor.
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He has said he is building a management team to "deliver a creative vision that will define the BBC and public service broadcasting for the next decade".
Greenstart hired David Merkoski, who was the executive creative director at Frog Design, earlier this year to be its chief creative officer and to help its companies improve their product and service designs.
Similarly, in crowd-funding there can be a fine line between simply asking for cash and seeking donations in return for a service or creative work.
There's a tendency for these borrowers, and their lenders, to live in a delusional world in which an inability to service the debt is papered over with refinancings and creative repayment schedules.
The new service will benefit from the creative vision of music icon and newly appointed Chief Creative Officer Trent Reznor and is set to launch in late 2013 as a stand-alone company under the Beats Electronics umbrella.
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He goes out of his way to hire customer-service phone reps who are outgoing, open-minded and creative.
The hashtag is closely associated with Twitter, and fans of the service use the hashtag as short-form creative expression.
Agencies that thrive will get creative on charging for making content-rich, interactive ads, and charging for that service.
Interestingly, those in the creative class had lower likelihood of unemployment than those with the same level of education who worked in service and working class jobs.
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