The auto industry had layers of obfuscation in the purchase process that have been stripped away by the amount and range of information available on the Internet.
With the buyer in control of the purchase process, focusing on leads is like trying to implement new management rules with New York cabbies in a snow storm.
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In either case, we need to have relevant information available to meet these information needs sooner in the purchase decision process, and this information may need to be packaged and syndicated in new ways to reach different buyers.
Intelisys software automates the purchase-approval process, freeing up the purchasing department to spend time, say, negotiating better prices.
McKinsey, the consulting firm, reported on the results of purchase process simulations with over 5000 customers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia (Court, Freeling, Leiter, and Parsons 1996).
Showing products but then redirecting a user to a hard-to-read website for the actual purchase or failing to tie in the process to the in-person experience through deals and pickup ability at a brick-and-mortar store will upset your customer.
With the first "purchase" being free, Dr Harvey said the process could kick-start the "shopping momentum effect, " whereby the "second and third purchase becomes far easier".
By decoupling the handset purchase and the monthly line rental, the process is going to be far more transparent, but what excites me the most is that it will allow consumers to appreciate just how expensive the modern smartphone is.
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Unless these mortgage approval land mines are fully vetted in the preliminary approval process, purchase contracts live in fear of never closing.
Our somewhat non-traditional, strategic use of SEM taught us that we could influence the purchase decision through the bid process by driving search down the funnel to known opportunities.
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The deal is expected to be completed in a few weeks after a due diligence process and the website will purchase a 51% controlling stake, while also having the option to buy the club outright in the future.
New legislation will require U.S. companies to disclose the use of certain minerals, including tantalum, in their products and to describe the process used to ensure the purchase of these minerals does not fund the illegally armed groups operating in the DRC.
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What was different between the decision-making process used for a good investment or purchase and the one used for a bad investment or purchase?
In this use scenario, it is easy to understand that marketers must understand what role each site or tool plays in the digital marketing funnel, and it is almost impossible for any single site, no matter how large, to manage the whole process from awareness to purchase.
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The Upgrade Assistant will walk you through the upgrade process step-by-step, from purchase to download and then to installation of the operating system.
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This creates a signficantly improved user-experience through the enhanced 'One-Click' purchase process and delivers greatly enhanced transaction completion rates.
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Perhaps more significant is the requirement to purchase prepaid SIMs for border crossings -- a process so expensive and convoluted that this limitation seriously diminishes the convenience factor for frequent travelers.
The purchase will go ahead if the due diligence process satisfies ministers that it represents a "sound investment".
Equity and corporate-bond markets have also been boosted by quantitative easing (QE), the process whereby central banks create money to purchase (mostly government) bonds.
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The buying process (an exchange of letters can solidify a purchase in some locales) as well as the laws (foreigners cannot legally own property in certain areas) and restrictions (local laws deem certain materials or additions off limits) are often very local as well.
With Checkout, they wanted to help advertisers close the purchasing process to deliver a search-to-offer-to-purchase experience.
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First, we will ensure that Recovery Act funds to purchase government cars get out as quickly as possible and work through the budget process to accelerate other federal fleet purchases, as well.
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The man paid in cold hard cash, and after a tedious 40 minute purchase process that involved a bit of activation, some nice tutorials, a quick address book sideload from his old Touch Diamond and whole lot of peripheral upsell, Alfredo was one of the world's first satisfied Pre customers.
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For online purchases, MasterPass provides shoppers a simple check-out process by eliminating the need to enter detailed shipping and card information with every purchase.
Additionally, Dow is in the process of addressing the heavy debt load taken on to fund the April 2009 purchase of Rohm and Haas.
When the FBI denies a gun purchase under a background check, that starts a winnowing-down process aimed at sorting out who's potentially dangerous in the large pool of applicants who are turned down for a variety of reasons.
For sellers and buyers, the process often results in an appraisal amount that's below the agreed-upon purchase price of a home.
Among them: hidden costs, risks in the buying process and the likelihood that the house will continue to plunge in value after the purchase.
The purchase will provide Toshiba with insider access to the hard-to-crack electric-utility procurement process.
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