The authors stress the need to identify and serve specific customer segments rather than flogging products.
Instead, you are trying to meet the specific needs of specific customer segments.
You may initially begin broad, then hone in on specific customer archetype over time as you collect more anecdotal evidence.
In addition, most providers have specific customer service teams that work on a small group of accounts, and that results in greater service consistency.
The thing I like about CWTR is that they focus on a specific customer demographic, and in doing so can really build a relationship with that customer group.
Each product in the XPS portfolio is tailored for very specific customer needs, and the new products unveiled today are designed to take advantage of emerging software and technology, with the same XPS brand attributes that customers expect from Dell.
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Not just timelier claim payments, the seller can provide enhanced customer service to expedite each of these specific customer needs if only by being impeccably responsive when inquiries as to scope of coverage are made or clarifications on notices or extensions are sought.
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Not just by advancing insurance payments for cleanup and other initial response work, insurers can also provide enhanced customer service to expedite each of these specific customer needs if only by being impeccably responsive when inquiries as to scope of coverage are made, or clarifications on notices or extensions are sought.
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But take a shirt and turn it into an image (a promise of hipness, say), aim it at a specific customer segment (such as young Filipinos in Hong Kong), and display it to them in the right setting and with enthusiastic service, and you have both differentiation and a winning business model.
Metmarine also has a very specific target customer, British boat captains in the Mediterranean.
Cox declined to provide specific revenue or customer projections for its wireless business.
Imagine, for instance, if when serving a customer, you could instantly know his or her risk profile, which of your colleagues that customer has spoken with or worked with at the bank, and the specific banking products that customer already owns.
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The best examples are goods tailored to meet customer-specific demands, such as bespoke suits and haircuts.
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Rule 2111 is composed of three main obligations: reasonable-basis suitability, customer-specific suitability, and quantitative suitability.
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Rule 2111(b) provides an exemption to customer-specific suitability regarding institutional investors if the conditions delineated in that paragraph are satisfied.
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Individual customers and companies became anonymized into aggregate profiles and scenarios, rather than enabling employees to collaborate on specific issues of each customer.
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This would seem a boon to divining that terrific, specific golden nugget of customer insight, but for one critical factor: Too much of a good thing.
In my experience at the helm of a fast growing 100-person company selling inventory software, we collect as much business-specific information about every customer as we possibly can.
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JackThreads , an online shopping site for men, used Custom Audiences to target specific segments of its customer database and target them with ads for products in categories the company knew were most relevant to them such as sneakers.
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E-mail your customer database with specific suggestions about you could meet their gift-giving needs.
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HughesNet Gen4 is available in a variety of new, affordable Power plans to suit customer's specific requirements.
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But some of the detailing did not fit the specific needs of a major customer, which had to make changes in the product to fit its requirements.
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The next approach that you can consider taking is to identify specific performance goals that the customer will agree in advance and, once achieved, will accept some increase in prices.
This attack, like the one against iOS apps, relies on the fact that Apple does not link specific purchases directly to a customer or device, which means that a single purchased receipt can be used repeatedly.
But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
Since Intuit is primarily a services firm, it cares more about offering a good customer experience than promoting a specific mobile payment technology, Hylen said.
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"If any customers have any specific concerns, they should contact me or my customer service team directly, " he said.
He said 2ndWave will initially shoot for Minnesota-based companies, but would consider companies in other parts of the U.S. Potential targets are established software companies providing business applications with strong revenue and a large customer base, but Heim has no specific targets in mind.
Use, instead, the phrase "reduce customer risk"--and be very specific about what you mean.
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