We live in an instant-gratification, over-plotted era in which companies print Super Bowl champions T-shirts for both teams, because they want them on linebacker shoulders as the confetti falls.
It has moved investors' focus from long term to instant gratification--and done so amid the noise level of a busy craps table.
Most American buyers don't get exactly what they want but they do get instant gratification--they drive a car away immediately after deciding to buy it.
Included content allows customers to experience instant 3-D gratification.
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Making animated gif files is easy, but it is an editing process, not an Instagram-like instant gratification.
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As the company's business shifts from by-mail to instant gratification, there are also decisions that need to be made about delivery.
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With the entrance of the dot.com bubble and Gen X (and eventually Gen Y) came a much more instant gratification, self-oriented nature to the workforce.
Self-expression meets instant gratification, thanks to the frenzied printers at Zazzle.
Retailers need to stop thinking of online, in-store and mobile as competing interests and instead stitch together these experiences with coherent services that help consumers navigate the overwhelming amount of information on the web and then channel them to a nearby store for the instant gratification of an in-stock purchase.
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Responsiveness is about getting their problem fixed and being used to instant gratification in our new speed-driven culture they expect this to be fast.
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The major shortcoming with online shopping to date has been the instant gratification that comes with in-store shopping and the ease with which consumers can get their hands on products in real time.
Thanks to the web in general and social media in particular, we feel entitled to free music, free news, two-way communication with celebrities and instant gratification of just about every urge above all, the urge to have our egos stroked.
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When Netflix combined DVDs and streaming, it offered both a vast selection of up-to-date content and the prospect of instant gratification.
Education also teaches you the value of discipline -- that the greatest rewards come not from instant gratification but from sustained effort and from hard work.
It does not have the instant gratification of a search ad but it does have the life-time value of sales, ROI, amplification and advocacy from the community.
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None of it gave me that instant gratification I felt upon seeing the shuttered Apple Online Store re-open a few hours after a real breakthrough product announcement.
Of course selling a fridge once or twice in the lifetime of a consumer is not the high recurrence business model of sugar-water vendors targeting impressionable children and exploiting their apetite for sugar and instant gratification.
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