He started answering calls under contracts for such customers as direct marketer Herbalife.
Napster and the warez sites have vastly expanded the universe of potential customers for such illicit material.
Brooks Brothers decided to introduce a dressier button-down collar with a higher thread count and made with Italian-woven fabric in its Luxury shirt because sales staff had been getting requests from customers for such a shirt, he says.
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Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.
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China will be the first market, but the joint venture will also look for customers elsewhere, such as the United States.
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While carriers have to pay higher subsidies for smartphones such as the iPhone, such devices allow carriers to charge customers for data plans.
Response rates for direct mail have been falling, prompting issuers to turn to other avenues such as the Internet for acquiring new customers.
The ability to charge more for credit cards is likely to set up a tricky dance for merchants, which may risk angering customers if they start charging more for such transactions.
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Companies tried other business models, such as charging customers for access, but very few succeeded in getting people to pay up.
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Premerger, HP and Compaq had more than a thousand locally set policies on such things as rebates for customers and dental coverage for employees.
Monsanto is a global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products for growers and downstream customers, such as grain processors and consumers, in the agricultural markets.
The expansion enables the firm to produce lactose - an ingredient widely-used by the food industry in products such as confectionary - for customers across the UK and Europe.
Fortunately, for such startups, there are a number of precursors to paid customers, such as: trial users, freemium customers and qualified prospects.
On the plus side, the services can accept reservations at any time, track their customers' behavior to provide personalized services such as identifying regular customers and their preferences for seating, and use direct-marketing techniques to drive business on slow nights, fill cancellations or offer premium seating.
This is important for firms selling to customers in countries known for credit-card fraud, such as Russia or Belarus.
Analysts may have a legal duty of care for their retail customers, which means, for example, offering them only such advice as they would give to themselves.
Our vision demonstrates a clear focus on what business customers are looking for, such as intuitive interfaces across a wide range of devices.
Thanks to new digital services, which include hundreds of more channels and video-on-demand, it will no longer be such a snap for EchoStar to snatch customers from cable industry customers.
For the same reason they are doing a lot of other things that customers dislike, such as eliminating food service and charging for baggage.
New challenges are coming from smaller firms, such as Think3, that compete for midsize customers.
Other ideas such as creating an insurance fund for customers are also being considered, he said.
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Most car makers also mix custom colors for customers, but be aware that such shades can hurt resale value.
Stephen Oesterle of Medtronic, a devices firm involved in remote patient monitoring, thinks it a bit Orwellian for drugmakers to keep such intimate tabs on their customers.
Bank of Ireland has apologised for the error and said it had enhanced procedures for handling "all such incomplete transactions so that customers accounts will not be debited".
This is particularly true for the workers with direct access to customers, such as sales professionals.
Such reasoning is even sillier for banking because those customers most desirous of debt financing are frequently the least acceptable risks.
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Travelzoo ventured into the social commerce space in August 2010, by launching a local deals service which enables customers to purchase vouchers for local businesses such as spas and restaurants.
Their shops must focus on those things, such as expensive clothes and gadgets, that customers will want to try before they buy, and for which they will pay extra, such as advice from competent sales assistants.
All the banks are offering low costs for customers and competitive rates through new technology, such as mobile phones with internet access.
Brokers recommended annuities to customers for whom they were unsuited due to such factors as age, investment objectives, risk tolerance and need for liquidity.
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