But it says the calls to specific customers are being made as a "preventative measure".
Targeting specific customers with tailored offers will become a much bigger business in 2013, according to one SAP expert.
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Facebook, for example, recently introduced its Custom Audiences feature, which allows campaigns to be targeted to specific customers and prospects.
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To take advantage of that shift, local news organizations will have to become much more adept at targeting ads to specific customers than they have been so far.
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Once in, he began perusing the database of 1, 100 Texas Auto Center customers with the device installed, first targeting specific customers but then going down the list corrupting records, setting off car horns, and disabling cars.
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The company currently employs three different fleets of drivers: long-haul truckers who live in one city but can travel all over the country, regional drivers who drive within a 500-mile radius of their homes, and dedicated fleets for specific customers.
It also means defining--ahead of time--the specific partners, customers, stakeholders and media outlets that you will contact if bad stuff happens.
But Nessa Feddis, vice president of the American Bankers Association, says it's not at all clear that lenders are targeting specific groups of customers.
Which would create a headlong, arms-race-like rush toward undifferentiated, one-size-fits-all products that perform poorly any specific jobs that customers might hire them to do.
Bloomberg declined to comment on specific conversations with customers.
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Bloomberg has declined to comment on specific conversations with customers, but has said Mr. Doctoroff and others from the company have reached out to hundreds of clients to discuss their potential concerns.
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And how else to explain Citigroup's "Live Richly" campaign, in which the bank opts out of selling potential retail customers specific advantages over the competition, such as free checking, higher-interest CDs or longer hours.
This week for the first time, Wal-Mart will list maternity under services available when customers search specific stores.
It's not clear if any of these specific deals alone won customers for the carriers, but it certainly hasn't hurt.
For manufacturers, IntelliBright will offer further flexibility to tailor product performance to the specific needs of their customers and markets.
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The new Handheld PC software is more aggressively targeted at corporate customers in specific industries, such as healthcare, financial services and manufacturing.
The company also touted its new calling feature, "myFaves, " which allows T-Mobile customers on specific billing plans unlimited nationwide calling to their five favorite people, regardless of whether they use a competing wireless or landline phone service.
They can provide specific names, but many customers don't even ask, lest the trade show visitor be spooked off.
"If any customers have any specific concerns, they should contact me or my customer service team directly, " he said.
BT's response was to revamp its company structure, so that it focused on specific market sectors for different customers.
The money television brings into professional sports transforms them from a one-off spectacle before paying customers at a specific place and time into a global service business.
Unlike OnLive, Playcast can tailor its front-end interface with specific branding according to its customers' desires, and it works on your TV without the need for special hardware.
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The Kodak Funsaver was a product that customers bought for a specific job: They wanted a camera on vacation but either didn't own one or had forgotten to bring one along.
She places ads on the huge online classifieds sites like AutoTrader.com and Cars.com, where customers can search for specific models and link directly to the dealer when they find what they're looking for.
The OFT made some new, specific recommendations on improving the market for customers.
This process also helped me identify which specific features were most important to potential customers (such as weekend availability and the unmet need for study space open to students).
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For instance, Mr Cruickshank thinks that he and other utility regulators may have to order the firms they oversee to provide more specific guarantees to hospitals and other priority customers.
All of which allows MINI Connected customers to create a MINI-specific soundtrack for the hallmark MINI go-kart feeling according to their mood and driving style.
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Those customers tend to have a very specific goal and a strong idea of what they want to do with those orders, be it entering or exiting the underlying market as investors, protecting their equity investments, gaining incremental income over and above simply holding a stock or exchange-traded fund position, or seeking to gain additional leverage.
To be more specific, it is a war for the best customers first.
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