E-mail your customer database with specific suggestions about you could meet their gift-giving needs.
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To a computer, pattern recognition is pattern recognition, whether on a string of DNA or a customer database.
The apps were designed by Aflac to help its sales force access Aflac's customer database, claims or policy information while on the road.
And because the different contracts made comparisons difficult, the firm could not easily track trends, predict revenues or make the most of its customer database.
With the latest technology, says Cho, the bank can measure the profitability of every branch employee and customer, mine its customer database and run sophisticated risk-management and credit-analysis programs.
Are you capturing this information in the customer database?
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JackThreads , an online shopping site for men, used Custom Audiences to target specific segments of its customer database and target them with ads for products in categories the company knew were most relevant to them such as sneakers.
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In the worst-case scenarios, the implementation results in a customer database being penetrated and a website being compromised, leading to a massive clean-up effort, customer breach notifications, share prices dropping and customers taking their business elsewhere (estimated loss: far more than estimated ROI of the new technology).
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In contrast, generic pricing and publicly available information is fine in a cloud, as long as it's run separately from a database containing customer names and credit card data.
Mining the company's rich database to develop compelling customer initiatives.
Marc Benioff knew that Seibel had already started a river flowing of demand for a customer relationship management (CRM) database package for businesses, but they were a traditional software model.
For example, customer data could go into a relational database, linked to a non-relational database for unstructured data such as product reviews and recommendations.
The simplest, cheapest way to add customers to your company's database is by asking every paying customer for their e-mail address--no matter if the sale was made face-to-face, by phone or online.
We are a big user, and it always bothered me that we have to clean and maintain our own database of accounts when every other Salesforce customer is doing the same thing.
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When the customer has used up all 100 keys in the database, he goes to a secure ATM-like machine that takes more laser readings at different spots and transmits the keys to the database.
Later, she also determine that batteries needed to be replaced every two years, and set up a database to automatically send letters to every customer one month before their battery expired creating a whole new revenue source for her business.
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SaaS software applications such as customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning are deployed alongside database and middleware software.
By not falling through cracks, I mean that the database keeps track of anything pending for a customer, supplier or partner.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is not a hack of Monster's security, rather, legitimate customer credentials are being used to log in to the database, " said Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at Monster.
All customer information will be entered into a joint Samsung-FCB proprietary database for use in future promotions and product designs.
Working with Customer Hook, Bohme Boutique increased the number of emails in their database from a modest 1, 000 to nearly 100, 000.
Safeway, a Britain-based retailer, built a 2-terabyte database with IBM to store almost four years' worth of customer data.
Schwan's database is now pushing out more than 1.2 million dynamically-generated customer recommendations every day, sent directly to drivers' handheld devices.
Wal-Mart, with a 24 terabyte database, the world's largest in the private sector, has been a Teradata customer for ten years.
Another feature called "Expert On-Demand, " sorts through a company's database of experts to create a video connection between a user--say, a confused customer in a bank's branch office--and the person best suited to answer his or her questions on any given topic.
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