The payoff can be as great or greater if you look beyond it to the infrastructure of targeted customers.
Fiduciary practice is so horrifying to financial services industry executives because it forces them to do the right thing and treat people as clients and not targeted customers.
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As brand advertisers adopt learnings from successful game developers, they will see more return on investment, better brand recall among targeted customers and more transactions completed in the mobile forum.
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Finding and understanding targeted customers is critical to success.
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This year saw the launch of Nationwide savings accounts targeted at business customers and a range of fixed rate bonds.
Facebook, for example, recently introduced its Custom Audiences feature, which allows campaigns to be targeted to specific customers and prospects.
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The second version, in particular, is really targeted at enterprise customers that want a tablet that is as powerful as a laptop.
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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.
Citi said it is being more selective in its marketing, focusing on well-to-do consumers instead of the broader swath of customers targeted in the past.
He says the deal will help Saks build its mail-order business, Folio, into a stable of niche catalogues targeted at the customers of both groups.
Asking a few targeted questions of customers, Jane realized that they were using the products together to solve a problem, but the combined products were cumbersome to use.
On top of persistent losses (orders fell by 25% after protesters targeted Huntington's customers), it couldn't survive without the loan.
Some security experts say that more recently, younger and more sophisticated criminals have targeted banks and their customers online instead of in branches.
Network Solutions, a Web hosting company whose customers appeared to be targeted by the criminal campaign, blamed the WordPress community.
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Tesco, the supermarket chain, this month started to use its customers' shopping histories to sell targeted online advertising.
The developers have a targeted marketplace to market their software and the customers have a marketplace constantly evolving security standards with their best interests high on the importance list.
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By understanding your customers and how they segment, you can afford to pay more for targeted acquisition, via API, and get more out of retargeting the most valuable subsets of potential customers.
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Dell has some room to grow in the market it has targeted, feature- rich PCs sold to business customers and sophisticated consumers.
Over the past few months, each has stepped it up a notch to connect with customers using strategies that are innovative and targeted.
"We have done research on this where banks have mis-sold products, sometimes for not really understanding the customers but in other instances where they have actually targeted people because they're vulnerable, " she said.
Globys is using big data for targeted marketing, telling telecommunications companies what is the right time to interact with their customers.
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Nokia plans to continue licensing the map data to all of Navteq's customers but wants control of the data to begin developing location services and targeted advertising.
When customers opt-in, websites can give them a more personalized experience and more targeted specials, Yoshimura says.
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Southwest plans to offer targeted discounts to Wi-Fi users, generating both advertising revenue for the airline and giving customers more incentive to pay to log on.
Competition for the most stable customers has resulted in a variety of attractive rewards and 0% credit card offers targeted to people with good or excellent credit, and opening one could save you hundreds of dollars.
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We remain committed to expanding our reach beyond PCs with a targeted set of open, standards-based mobility solutions and services designed for commercial and mobile professional customers.
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The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs.
"This case highlights a conflict of interest that arose between UBS and its customers and the devastating effect that such conflict had on those customers, " says the complaint by William Galvin, Massachusetts's top securities regulator, who has targeted Wall Street for alleged misdeeds in the credit crisis.
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