Footholds also enable a firm to get traction with future customers while avoiding massive marketing spend.
Existing NetWeaver Mobile customers will continue to be supported, while future customers can simply deploy SUP.
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Google is excited about ITA's QPX business and the opportunity to work closely with current and future customers.
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Millennials are not only our current and future employees (and bosses) but they are our current and future customers.
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Now someone is trying to make sense of all that, so future customers do not face the same frustrations.
It was a significantly more effective way to spend time with current and future customers than standing around an auto show floor.
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When the time came to raise the first round of money in November, Chief Executive William Weisberg went to future customers: 250 distributors and a dozen of the largest manufacturers.
These new digital platforms offer an exciting opportunity to restore marketing to its fundamental roots, the basic principles of driving business growth by understanding and adding value to current and future customers.
Further, we contend that subscribers who might have canceled in the past can not be excluded from the pool of future prospective customers.
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"This transaction provides significant benefits to Hughes, EchoStar, millions of present and future DirecTV customers and shareholders of both GM and EchoStar, " GM President and CEO Rick Wagoner said in a statement.
Esa believes this flexibility of handling multiple missions at once will prove attractive to future commercial customers, not least because sharing a rocket ride helps to constrain costs for all the payloads onboard.
Gift cards have a lot of benefits for small businesspeople who want to lock in future business with new customers, and get cash up front for future sales.
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Sharp is considering a host of measures to raise funds, including selling overseas factories and securitizing future payments from customers.
Education is indeed the great equalizer, and our future employees, customers, shareholders and fellow citizens of the world are ready to learn.
Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
The visionary leader model revolves around a senior executive who understands the future better than customers may, motivates employees to zealously pursue that vision and keeps generating ideas that are unexpected and profound.
Naturally there will be outliers in any organization who will complain no matter what, but absent an obvious pattern, such criticisms should be taken lightly or ignored by other stakeholders, such as current and future employers, customers and partners.
Or, it forcibly bars future access to new customers by a dominant firm.
Relationships: Marketers want to cultivate direct relationships with their customers for future opportunities.
We are imagining a future world with our customers and then we make technology that makes our customer dreams come true.
In the long run, it may do the coal industry no good either: gas-fired power stations are becoming ever smaller, so more customers in future will generate their own power.
In this version, the story is mainly about the strategic missteps of one company that has so far failed to communicate a coherent sense of its own future to investors, customers, and other stakeholders.
An alternative (if far-fetched) suggestion is that they should be required to invest according to their own advice, but only after a delay to ensure that they are not able to anticipate their customers' future purchases.
He is thinking about his customers first, his future employees second, and is ensuring that he creates a company culture that will serve his employees and his customers well.
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Because, at least for my technology firm, more profits will come from bigger customers in the future.
At SharesPost, President Greg Brogger said Facebook's post-IPO slide isn't likely to sway customers from making future investments.
This could be true, since Venezuela tries to get constant Latin American customers for the future, a future where the US might consider other sellers.
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They should then explain exactly what they are doing to fix it and exactly what they are doing to make the experience much easier for their customers in the future.
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Of course, understanding the cost envelope for acquiring customers helped guide future marketing investments and activities, but fixing this problem was not only about cutting or right sizing the marketing budget.
The deal, which had been expected, will make the Tokyo-based company one of Japan's major asset managers and give it the opportunity to offer Robeco's financial products to Japanese customers in the future.
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