Dicso pointed out that SundaySky measures video performance to estimate how much its service reduces customer costs.
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At the end of those 15 years the compounded interest will have driven customer costs to 31.3 cents per kWh, about four times what they are paying now.
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Mitek's technology increases convenience for the consumer by eliminating the need to go to the bank branch or automated teller machine, and dramatically reduces processing and customer acquisition costs while increasing customer retention.
In one example, Get Satisfaction helped music service Rhapsody vastly decrease its customer support costs.
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The result is a brand credibility gap that drive churn and increases customer service costs.
But the additional revenue comes with a cost of unhappy clients, high returns, and escalating customer support costs.
The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.
This could be true especially for lower income households and so DirecTV may lose out on these customers or at least face higher customer acquisition costs down the road.
Scrutiny from the SEC recently caused the company to abandon a much-criticized accounting method that swept its staggering customer-acquisition costs under a rug.
In essence, Groupon is claiming that its massive expenditures on marketing and related customer-acquisition costs are a one-time thing, a side effect of creating an entirely new market.
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Sales, marketing, advertising and other customer-acquisition costs are lower, due to the longer duration of their relationships and their higher propensity to respond to offers or seek out additional products and services.
This concept, which appears on the surface to be quite benign, is typically used to compare the costs of acquiring a customer (often referred to as SAC, which stands for Subscriber Acquisition Costs) with the discounted positive cash flows that will come from that customer over time.
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These avatars are designed for businesses to quickly and efficiently deploy state-of-the-art chat to answer customer questions instantly and accurately, decrease staff costs, increase sales and customer engagement, and find out what customers are really thinking by capturing the analytics of the interaction.
As a consequence to subscriber growth, costs of customer service and billings also grew.
McMillan deconstructs industry arguments that fiduciary standards would limit customer choice and raise costs.
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Basically, the insurance industry was mostly concerned about three strategic imperatives: growing revenues, customer retention and lowering costs.
SundaySky can tell them about how smart videos have improved the customer experience and lowered costs for its clients.
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It blamed the job losses on losing a number of packaging contracts and an increased customer pressure to reduce costs.
Can it build customer loyalty so its costs to acquire customers tumble?
Organizations that measure and reward people by results, rather than hours, benefit from higher productivity, more motivated workers, better customer service and lower costs.
Use the Web to improve the customer experience and reduce costs.
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The team leaders must rely on these skills to meet their performance targets, which are based not only on profitability, but also (lest they cut corners to trim costs) customer retention.
The research I have done on organizational change clearly shows that programs which are focused on organizations improving their performance in areas such as quality, costs and customer service are rarely successful.
We discussed in a recent note that rising content costs and competition from a Dish-owned Blockbuster and others were prime drivers to this price hike, see Netflix Bets on Customer Loyalty as Higher Costs Force Price Hike.
Build a spreadsheet that quantifies the costs (loss in revenue, customer dissatisfaction, etc.) and benefits (reduced support costs, freed up engineers, happier employees) and get it in front of upper management.
It works to smooth power demand on the grid and effectively lowers electricity costs to the customer.
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Britain's BA and Iberia of Spain have unveiled a new co-operation agreement aimed at cutting costs and improving customer service.
As Aviation Week explains, while charging for checked bags makes dollars and cents, it also costs airlines in customer satisfaction ratings.
Where feasible, Insight uses direct shipping -- that is, it transmits the order to the supplier, who then ships to the customer, saving Insight inventory costs.
Sequentially, CPGA increased in the fourth quarter of 2011 due primarily to a change in the customer mix towards branded customer additions and higher advertising costs.
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