In 2000 GKN's industrial service sales jumped 19%, and its profits rose 15%.
Retail and food service sales, meanwhile, are about 24% off their lows, and nearly 9% above their pre-recession highs.
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Last month Pep Boys reported that its fiscal-third-quarter net income rose nearly 23% on stronger tire sales and improving service sales.
They had dramatically lower costs and promoted the use of development standards such as the Capability Maturity Model, genericizing service sales, further transforming the competitive landscape.
As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.
Helping support stocks was a report from the Commerce Department that showed retail and food-service sales rose in April from the previous month, offsetting a big drop in sales at gas stations.
The bottom line: If Dell is not able to overcome its reputational issues, there could be a downside of 20% or more to its stock price due to weak hardware and service sales.
Just over two years ago I started using an automated sales tax service that handles sales tax calculation, collection, and remittance.
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In fact, service station sales rose 2.6% in July mainly as a result of rising fuel prices.
For Joachim (Joe) Eberhardt, ChryslerGroup's new executive vice president for global sales, marketing and service, Hemi sales are a bright spot in a disappointing year.
People start to become demoralized and dysfunctional, efficiency plummets, client service and sales suffer and convoluted mistakes are made, up to and including illegal behavior such as fraud and larceny.
When she pulls up the doctor's name on her computer, she sees the gross profit she's made off him in parts, service and sales for the eight years he's been coming to her dealership.
Those folders were home to some 126 billion files that contain everything from personal data hosted by a social networking service, sales records, video game source code and even unencrypted backups of databases.
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The random free-wheeling social element just throws a lot of mud into those gears and companies are only reluctantly jerry-rigging it to their service and sales and marketing operations, like some kind of IT Frankenstein.
Compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, Service and Sales revenues decreased by 3.6% as fewer branded contract gross additions were partially offset by handset sales in connection with the introduction of T-Mobile USA's new unlimited Value plans.
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Scot Gnau, chief technology officer at Teradata, said a data warehouse and good analytics can deliver information to people on the front lines of customer service and sales so they can make good decisions without giving away the store.
In addition to productivity as it ties to time worked, there are also the productivity bonuses associated with the ability to safely use social networks like Facebook and Twitter to meet corporate business objectives in areas like marketing, customer service and sales.
Crane sales will improve 29% in 2012 and food-service-equipment sales will advance 6%, after solid gains in both segments in 2011, Jaffe says.
The service could be used by sales people to demonstrate a service or product remotely, says Jevon MacDonald, co-founder of GoInstant.
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Other bright spots: customer service representatives and sales managers, with 97, 912 job listings and 80, 137, respectively.
Products are now launched on a worldwide market pretty much simultaneously, and customers expect after-sales service.
Experts have also highlighted problems with other contracts, in particular with after-sales service and spare parts.
As newcomers in the handset business, the Chinese are still learning about after-sales service.
Poor after-sales service meant attempts to rectify problems with the work hit a brick wall, he added.
Kelon's Rongsheng ("pleasant music") model soon became one of China's top brands, renowned for reliability and after-sales service.
Chinese car makers still lag their foreign competitors in providing such after-sales service.
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Even the smallest independent bookstore will have access to a sophisticated electronic-book sales service with a vast selection of titles.
Completing projects on time and on budget, improve product quality, improve customer service, increase sales, reduce costs, enhance online marketing, etc.
Banks are overhauling their incentive structures for frontline staff, rewarding staff for high levels of customer service and not sales volumes.
DMG's Mr Gurley points out, customers like to know that the manufacturer or retailer has proof of the purchase, if only to make after-sales service easier.
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