We're now delighted to add to our already fantastic customer offering with YouTube.
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In attempting to capture the market, nothing is more important than figuring out how to serve the customer by offering the services and the features that they want.
Meanwhile, the banks themselves are doing their best to attract the proactive customer by offering incentives to switch - with a bit of a frenzy of offers introduced in January.
The most successful entrepreneur will anticipate the needs of their customer, sometimes even offering a new good or service that the customer never demanded.
And Zoho is already pushing into more sophisticated applications, offering customer-management and project-planning software alongside basics such as word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
For businesses, Google Wallet is an opportunity to strengthen customer relationships by offering a faster, easier shopping experience with relevant deals, promotions and loyalty rewards.
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As demand for tablet devices increases, Samsung expects to maintain strong earnings momentum in the OLED business by broadening its customer base and offering a diverse product lineup.
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Being successful in SEO these days involves thinking along the lines of great customer service, offering great products and services, being a thought leader, and building brand advocacy online.
However, a few years in, the electronics market underwent significant changes and Klipsch decided to cease production of the Aragon line in 2005, while still honoring warranty terms and offering customer support.
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Sites like Amazon were on the forefront of social shopping by encouraging customer reviews, offering purchase suggestions based on what people who viewed the same item went on to purchase, and continuing to mine your purchases and browsing history to make additional suggestions.
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Ultimately, if product sponsors had to compete by offering features that benefit the customer, instead of competing by offering more generous compensation to brokers, the benefits of a fiduciary duty could really add up.
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Zappos is a good model for growing by offering more customer service than the competition.
For example, NetSuite recently snagged ClearChoice Management Services as a customer because of this offering.
We will continue to invest in our customer services, product offering, brand recognition and technology development.
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In this experiment, you observe and collect as much data as possible regarding how your customer reacts to your offering.
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Retailers have attempted to cope with this customer power shift by offering rock bottom prices in order to ring up much-needed sales.
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In recent years, an increasing number of businesses have realized that they can differentiate a commodity product by offering great customer service along with that product.
They go the extra step of offering the customer tailored information about how they can get more value out of their card and their relationship with American Express.
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In an institution dominated by investment bankers, the need of brokers to earn commissions by selling the bank's own investment products may be given a higher priority than offering the customer good advice.
Even so, one player, Spark Networks' chief executive, David Siminoff, 41, hopes his company will thrive by offering good customer service and by catering to small niches of singletons who are seriously looking for mates.
We place a high value on customer interaction, so as a standard practice we have flight attendants walking through the cabin every 20 or 30 minutes offering water to every customer.
Since Intuit is primarily a services firm, it cares more about offering a good customer experience than promoting a specific mobile payment technology, Hylen said.
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"While the outlook remains pretty overcast for the aviation industry, the winners will be those airlines that focus on offering the best customer service, " said Steve Ridgway, Virgin Atlantic's chief executive.
"We have incorporated all of the feedback we have received from prior pilots and our customer research into this latest offering and we are excited to offer U.S. Bank Go Mobile in these two markets, " said Dominic Venturo, chief innovation officer for U.S. Bank Payment Services.
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He blamed some of the customer switching on rival power suppliers offering attractive introductory deals to lure customers.
The addition of these new premium content services addresses an increased customer demand for a further expanded offering of best-in-class entertainment.
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Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
Tricky financial products with confusing pricing options lead to short-term gains for companies, but such gains are not sustainable in a competitive environment where everyone is offering similar products and customer loyalty makes the difference.
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Also, Comcast will be offering professional installation, upon customer request, of TiVo Premiere boxes at no charge.
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Amazon has built a strong bond with its customers through great customer service, convenience and broad product offering.
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