So he set out to create an instrument so simple that people could easily understand how it tracked the quality of their client relationships.

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Develop and manage reference sites through high quality technical, professional client relationships.

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"We take after-sale service very seriously and give the same attention to quality end results and client satisfaction as any service experience, " a spokeswoman wrote in an email.

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This particular firm worked on the billable hour model (the quality of your work or client satisfaction hardly mattered at the end of the month if you were light on hours).

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But it will most likely grow, because of the values in its statement: team work, training, hard work, quality control, the importance of client value, candor, selflessness, raising standards and helping others.

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The quality of investment advice, whether provided directly to a client or indirectly through a fund, is very important both to the financial markets generally as well as to each individual who benefits or suffers as a result.

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In the MeXvi model, the client participates in building his or her own home to high-quality standards under an affordable, versatile, fast and safe patented construction system.

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