Now it is up to customer demand to deliver those top-line numbers--in particular, demand for flash memory chips in advanced cell phones as well as strong sales of AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor for computer servers, due to launch on April 22.
It is up to the customer to decide whether or how to intervene.
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That's not the only thing Johnson said would be left up to the customer.
In the information architecture it shows up to the customer differently, which is for us the future.
There are ways to market your business without spending outside of your budget and at the core of these ways, they all link right back up to the customer.
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Aside from social media, Misty makes sure to collect the zip code of her customers visiting her restaurant and has them sign up to special customer clubs so she can track more about them.
Among less expensive solutions, Nissan engineered the 2013 Leaf with a new range-extending drive mode the company says can increase the distance it can travel on a single charge by up to 15%, to 84 miles, by allowing the customer to choose to use up 100% of the energy stored in the battery.
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The carrier finance department used them to credit a customer for up to several million dollars in payments as if the money had already been received, when it hadn't yet arrived at MCI.
To spread the word, Lawrence is organizing free dog washes to help to build up her customer base, before she even opens the doors to her shop.
So they took a page out of the s0-called Lean Start-up methodology to do customer development, the practice of talking to potential customers.
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Time Warner Cable seems to be up to the challenge by redefining customer engagement and changing the conversation from negative to positive by positioning itself as an enabler of enjoyment.
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Also the company aims to serve the local markets by providing a full line-up of Ford brands to expand customer choice and by focusing upon improving fuel-efficiency, safety and smart technology to provide buyers a better bang for the buck.
Rather than own up to it, our customer insisted that we had sold him a defective tube.
The AWC asserts that the reversal back up prompted the customer to purchase 13, 400 shares of MSHY.
Major retailers from Target to Best Buy to 7-Eleven have teamed up to create the Merchant Customer Exchange.
Instead, Android should continue to rack up impressive customer numbers that will in turn fuel its own network effect.
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Liquor stores usually expect employees to size up a customer's age.
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As another example, if you beef up customer service to improve churn, you directly impact future costs, and therefore deteriorate the potential cash flow contribution.
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In each case, the solution to keeping up with digital disruption is to have a customer relationship, one that digital tools and platforms make incredibly cheap and increasingly powerful.
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Given the amount of data to crunch through, it takes about two to four months from the time a customer signs up with Castlight to when the employee search tool is finally ready for use.
According to a study commissioned by Fiserv, which develops online billpay systems, using the internet to pay bills, send electronic checks, etc. can reduce customer turnover by up to 95%.
Boarding passes for the flight did not state a departure gate number however, leading to irritation among some passengers lining up at BA's customer service desk to inquire about the status of the flight.
What they lost in complexity they are looking to pick up in global customer sales.
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This allowed us to build up a loyal customer base and keep growing while keeping our spend low.
This is entirely legal, up to the point that a customer's debts are officially erased by a bankruptcy judge.
Tapping into the country's prospering urban middle class and, more recently, its relatively unbanked countryside, ICICI has built its customer base up to 27 million.
He wrote a plan to improve service in his Greenville, S.C. facility that includes teaching dockworkers to use computers to communicate with customer service reps and keep them up-to-date on the status of freight.
Later, she also determine that batteries needed to be replaced every two years, and set up a database to automatically send letters to every customer one month before their battery expired creating a whole new revenue source for her business.
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In the worst-case scenarios, the implementation results in a customer database being penetrated and a website being compromised, leading to a massive clean-up effort, customer breach notifications, share prices dropping and customers taking their business elsewhere (estimated loss: far more than estimated ROI of the new technology).
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Finance departments struggle to keep up with marketing, which has excellent tools to identify narrow customer segments and market new products, services or price plans to those niches.
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