The pre-sales reception of SWTOR has been phenomenal, with the game sweeping many prestigious video-gaming awards.
How many iPhones do you expect Verizon to sell, either in pre-sales or next week during the full launch?
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The CS40 enables an all-encompassing business process transformation for mobile workforces in pre-sales, merchandising, field service, long haul and truck load transportation.
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"Many consumers took advantage of our pre-sales and we expect it to be popular with our business customers, " spokesman Mark Siegel said.
The iPhone 5 was launched last month and broke Apple's pre-sales record.
Signs featuring Rowling's picture advertise the book's release date and offer pre-sales.
The initial numbers for iPhone 5 pre-sales suggest the ads may fall on deaf ears, or at least ears plugged by Apple headphones.
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The increase was 5% when adjusted for pre-sales of Office.
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In software vendor companies, data scientists have two roles: on a tactical level, helping close the deals by providing pre-sales support to either acquire new customers or upsell to existing customers.
There are benchmarks for iPhone pre-sales.
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In the case of The Firm, when Sony and Entertainment One went to NBC with the show, almost the entire cost of production had already been covered by the international pre-sales and by tax credits the production would earn from shooting in Canada.
As readers have pointed out here on Forbes, even though the company has been criticized for its patent actions, the lack of an iPhone 5 wow factor, and its new mapping service, pre-sales of the iPhone 5 quickly went over the 2 million mark.
Then Apple opens up online pre-order sales and sells out the first shipment almost immediately.
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Discount retailer Matalan also reported a surge in pre-Christmas sales, which were up 42.9% on the year.
At the start of this year it produced a strong trading statement and confirmed rocketing pre-Christmas sales.
Audi subsequently renamed the 5000 model and was able to recover to its pre-crisis sales in the United States within about five years.
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Companies had feared that the lockout would spill over into the crucial holiday shopping season and take a chunk out of their pre-Christmas sales.
The marketing group Footfall suggested pre-Christmas sales were down 7% on last year, but recovered to show a strong jump in sales shopping as canny shoppers waited for cut-price offers.
The clothing chain saw a 2.7% drop in Autumn and pre-Christmas sales at its High Street stores, although this was offset by a big jump in sales at its online business.
Russ Lucas, manager of pre-owned sales for BMW, will become vice president of its eastern region with overall responsibility for sales, marketing, aftersales and dealer development activities in the 12-state northeast region.
Continuing the upward trend of pre-paid phones, in Q4 2012 pre-paid phone unit sales increased 139 percent over the previous year.
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Future trends could also benefit Walmart as pre-paid smartphone sales heat up and contract based plans get a boost from lower-priced handsets.
That rule has motivated companies like Facebook to channel pre-IPO stock sales to single, large investors, to keep the shareholder base down.
Pre-owned home sales almost tripled in Beijing last week, following the latest moves by the State Council to reign in this property market.
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Pre-owned game sales were up 3.5% from a year ago.
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Pre-foreclosure short sales were up 22% from a year earlier and short sales of distressed properties for which foreclosure filings had not yet commenced were up 17% over the same time.
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In addition, several of FEIC's semiconductor peers have guided expectations for fourth-quarter sales higher with positive pre-announcements.
Some one third of listed companies are now operating at pre-crisis levels of sales and profits.
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