This is a relatively subtle way by Time Warner Cable to test customer response.
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She added that the price testing was just one of the many small changes Amazon makes to its site on a regular basis to test customer reactions.
Validation might be done a split test or by a customer usability test or by cohort analysis.
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But HP is ahead in some areas, such as automated tools to test the quality of the customer's software, says IDC analyst Stephen Hendrick.
Mini-experiments do not need to be expensive, they just need to involve the target customer group and test assumptions you have about your business model.
So if one customer unsubscribes to a test email, you should effectively deduct ten click-throughs from your internal scoring.
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Best Buy never hesitated to test new concepts, fine tune customer service issues or honestly admit when it screwed up (anyone remember Musicland?).
His breakthrough came in 1963 when he was asked to test drive a Formula Three car by a customer at his father's Jaguar garage.
Brakes said one positive test at 1% horse DNA was reported by a customer of Creative Foods for a lasagne made exclusively for that outlet.
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Meiji spokesman Masanobu Nakamura said the company received a call from a concerned customer on Nov. 28, and preliminary test results confirmed the worries about a week later.
In a California test that ran from 2003 through 2005, the average customer reduced his usage by 13% during the hottest summer hours when rates were five times higher.
He might test a range of incentives on food servers to determine how best to motivate customer drink orders without driving the servers to be overly pushy, or evaluate which of several potential incentives might make first-time visitors down on their luck more likely to return.
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Prior to shipping to the customer, each Digital Storm system undergoes a rigorous 72-Hour Stress-Test.
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Every doctor visit, diagnosis, lab test, prescription will be embedded in that chip, not on a server, but the customer can download the information on a computer.
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Entrepreneurs can test real demand, and collect startup capital, for hypothetical products through their own custom sites without giving up customer data and high fees to Kickstarter or Indiegogo.
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