There are no formal budgets or projections for the year ahead, on the principle that customer needs, not product targets, should determine growth.
Lilly's most recent national sales meeting, held at Disney's business training institute in Florida in February, was devoted to customer service, not product training.
But in the age of Groupon, search and social media advertising, it is the relevance of brand-, not product-centric advertising must be called into question.
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They rely on recruiting new representatives to profit (not product sales), charge reps large upfront fees and convince them to buy large amounts of inventory that is not returnable.
When Nguyen brokered the sale of Color (its engineering team, if not product) to Apple this fall, Witherspoon claims he was excluded from the discussions, the opportunity to go to Apple, and later received an inferior severance package.
The right is generally happy to devolve decisions about education or health care to the states, notes Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard and former solicitor-general, but not product-liability rules and other forms of business regulation.
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"We owe the American people and our soldiers a complete product, not a rushed product, " an Army spokesman said.
There is not a single product that could not be priced and paid for.
The challenge to waiting to ship until you have the best product is that most of the time what you think is the best product is actually not the best product.
But once a company has sold a product, it should not be able to prevent its resale, provided that the product has not been tampered with.
Tucker, Texas Christian University chancellor: What Spencer sells is not a product, but people on themselves.
Another central theme is that slavery was not a product of bigotry, but of business needs.
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America can show the world ... (that) man remains the master not the product of his technology.
We should certainly not be introducing product that's not recognised and approved as part of that specification.
That strategy must be market-focused, not just product-focused, and it must be integrated with other core business functions.
The history of rebates and giveaways haunt GM as customers wait for the deal and not the product.
What he did was not a product of ideology but of a pragmatist attitude of the government of Brazil.
Here at SAI, we do it all day over email, IM, and voice (not the product, the manipulation of air).
Or, companies look at social media as something they can sell, when social media is really a channel, not a product.
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The decrease in forecasted revenue is coming solely from companies that are U.S. focused and do not sell product or services abroad.
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Violence on the outskirts of French cities is not the product of insufficiently firm policing but of the misery of life there.
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However, in this case there are complications because health insurance is not a product best described with a simple supply and demand model.
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One idea, dubbed "mobility on demand, " is based on the premise that in the future, urban motorists will buy a service, not a product.
All seven economists insist that their results are not the product of data-mining crunching the numbers in search of any interesting pattern they can find.
"This stadium operations meeting scheduled for later this week was not a product of the incidents in Boston, " MLB spokesman Michael Teevan said Tuesday.
It was not the product, as is commonly portrayed these days, of a series of five-year government plans, in which entrepreneurs played their cooperative but subordinate part.
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When consumers can decide at minimal cost whether or not the product meets their expectations and there is no defect that causes injury, the government should lay off.
Gartner notes that the Galaxy S3 was the best-selling Android phone in the quarter, and that sales could have been even higher were it not for product shortages.
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On my biggest contracts, I did not sell product features.
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The main risk for luxury brands, says Ian Sewell, commercial director of Redwood, is that their magazines will prove to be vanity publications that look good but do not drive product sales.
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