Sounds great for the consumer, but it was problematic for the company because it delayed the repeat purchase cycle.

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The services increase the size of purchases and frequency of purchases, increasing repeat purchase rates to as high as 60%, Yoshimura says.

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It turns out that the excessive marketing spend was also propping up repeat purchase, and pulling back to achieve profitability is increasing churn.

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In consumer products recurring revenue comes from repeat purchase.

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If they reopened the cart but still did not purchase, repeat reminder e-mails.

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Finally, he chose to repeat the comment about the bond purchase programme last week which I found most interesting at the time, that they were "not eternal and not infinite".

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We know them because we can measure them with attributes more tangible than those found in an orgone collector, like product trial, purchase, price premium, and repeat sales.

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Across the country in California, state lawmakers are considering measures that would expand the categories of high-risk people who cannot legally purchase or possess firearms -- including repeat drug and drunk driving offenders and people who violate domestic violence restraining orders.

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Now he is trying to repeat this trick to mitigate climate change by co-ordinating bulk-purchase agreements between the governments of some of the world's biggest cities and makers of low-energy products.

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