TiVo took more than twice as long to hit that mark, despite having nine times as many potential customers.
Industry officials say the lack of such exemptions hurts dealers in those states since many potential customers might simply buy from elsewhere.
Five years ago Best Buy's managers realized that too many potential customers were walking out of its stores empty-handed because its salespeople couldn't explain the goods in the display cases.
Her goal was to attract as many potential customers as possible to her classes so they could get a taste of the curriculum, meet the instructors and hopefully sign up their little babies for summer camps.
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The 34 others have some form of guaranteed "high-risk-pool" capped-cost coverage that is nonetheless expensive enough to drown many potential customers in debt, and limited enough to pile large out-of-pocket costs on those who can afford the premiums.
So the question you must ask yourself is: how many customers or potential customers can I afford to lose?
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Thus when Indian IT firms convert their dollar rates into rupees, they scare many potential Indian customers away.
But with so many potential new customers, the banks do not need to work that hard to turn a profit.
The channel still lacks major distributors like Comcast, Time Warner and DirecTV, and its not yet clear how many of its 30 million potential customers will sign up.
Dealers were complaining that, while the nameplate has been eagerly awaited by some potential customers, many consumers have been put off by the relative lack of availability of automatic-transmission Darts.
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Hiro estimates that the potential market size for sales of virtual items in the U.S. is in the billions of dollars, but that issues like too many virtual currencies are roadblocks for potential customers.
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This means that when many customers are eager to buy, the retailer will close more sales and when fewer potential customers are on the floor, the retailer can cut its costs.
Despite the unproven benefits and potential for harm, Medestea has successfully attracted many customers with the promise of reducing their cellulite.
That's particularly important in potential new stores in big cities and upscale suburbia, where many customers place as much emphasis on wide aisles and clean bathrooms as they do on low prices.
Yet many marketers have not changed the way they plan to engage their potential and current customers.
Potential customers and partners are simply wary of working with the company and, internally, many of these diversity projects get starved for resources.
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