They allow us to provide even more choice in how customers buy and enjoy their entertainment.
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So when customers buy software products, the transactions are at their sole risk, Shafer explains.
That good cheer emanates to customers, customers buy more and come more often, and everyone profits.
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Still, an average of 20% of all customers buy optional insurance from the rental company every time they drive a rental.
When customers buy a Crane invitation through Paperless Post, they can also get a digital copy to send to people online.
With all the noise, campaigns become indistinguishable and customers buy for the bargain without increasing their affinity for a given company.
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You understand how potential customers buy, what terminology they use to describe things your product might solve, and learn about potential competitors.
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Most vendors charge a license fee for each new box customers buy.
Because fleet customers buy in bulk, they tend to pay less than showroom buyers, and that means carmakers earn less profit on those sales.
Amazon also knows precisely what its customers buy, which is why it often makes useful recommendations on what else you might be interested in.
Retailer Best Buy analyzed what products customers buy together -- CD buyers tend to load up on film, for example -- to help redesign its store layout.
Customers buy from Nimble in two predominant order sizes.
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Meet Yael Gavish and Eran Davidov the co-founders of Lifesta, a sleek web site that lets customers buy and sell coupons from Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com, Travelzoo, and KGB Deals.
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LinkedIn, like Bloomberg, is all about work. (No cat photos.) And LinkedIn makes much of its money by letting an elite group of customers buy high-powered access to its data, just as Bloomberg does.
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Historically, hardware divisions have been slow to recognise that this is not actually how customers buy products, and locked-down systems are slow to take advantage of the translation layer provided by smartphone and tablet apps.
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The folks at Levi may offer a sop to the stores: It would like to emblazon Levi's banners on the retailers' own Web sites and pay them a commission when their customers buy new duds at the jeansmaker's sites.
Lincoln is hoping to tap a niche in China where customers buy luxury products for their own personal experience, rather than for reasons of status, and plans to offer tailored services to customers as well as focus on technology and offering unique products.
Sell NetFlix until it shows some maturity and appreciation for its customers and Buy Apple.
ObamaCare's individual insurance mandate should drive more young, healthy customers to buy its policies.
The new policy allowed customers to buy telecoms services from competing providers using different technologies.
Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.
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Spinx plans to start issuing its own plastic to customers who buy gas at automated self-service pumps.
The thousands of Oakmark customers who buy through Schwab appear as a single account on Oakmark's books.
It also supplies pubs among 19, 000 customers who buy around 48, 000 cases of products containing beef every week.
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Digital Life makes it easy for customers to buy, select and extend the features that fit their needs.
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Amazon will also make it quick and easy for customers to buy additional Amazon Coins using their Amazon accounts.
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But to make real profit, they have to persuade customers to buy additional products with higher margins as well.
Target is revamping its stores, to entice its customers to buy more food and other consumables, like paper goods.
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