The FTC has ruled previously that applying a material change in a privacy policy to information collected under a prior policy, without customer consent, constitutes an unfair or deceptive trade practice in violation of the FTC Act.
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Never use a customer as a referral without the customer's prior approval.
Managed correctly, adjusted communications can solicit additional sales without the customer feeling put-upon.
Since 2006 the FSA has fined 11 firms and censured two motor dealerships as part of its campaign to stop people being sold policies when they are either unnecessary, not explained properly, or sneaked into the cost of a loan without the customer realising.
No registered person should ever initial or sign on behalf of a customer without first securing prior written authorization from both the employer firm and the customer.
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It is considered bad manners and bad business to call a potential customer without an introduction.
That way, the agent has the information they need without annoying the customer.
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The entrepreneurs of Yuhuan have developed their products and technologies completely on their own, and without a visible customer in site.
Go try to open a brokerage account on Wall Street as a public customer without agreeing to mandatory arbitration good luck.
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This allowed us to reach the right kind of customer without spending big marketing dollars and acquire many new names for our email list and customers.
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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However, most industries in a capitalist society without worker or customer representation will trend towards a monopoly, at which point these industries no longer work to please the customer, since the only things you can buy instead of their products are the higher-end versions of their products that they decided to make to satisfy those who were willing to shell out more cash.
Customer service is without doubt a huge arrow in the marketing quiver, and a smart customer service representative is worth his or her weight in gold.
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And the newer Pay With Square app lets a customer enter a store, make a purchase and pay for it without swiping anything: The customer simply states his name the vendor's iPad automatically identifies any nearby smartphones running the app and then displays the customer's photo as confirmation before it processes linked credit card data.
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"I made it a policy never to leave a store without talking to a customer, " he says.
Without clarity about core customer characteristics, entrepreneurs will rely on ad hoc approaches to evaluate business development opportunities.
This means serving those in your organization just as you would your best customer, without regard to title, rank or hierarchy.
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Google has pledged it would continue licensing Android to Motorola as if it were any other customer, without exclusivity after the merger.
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All of these places could not exist without a dedicated local customer base that seems to put paid to DC's transience brand.
"The must-have features and stunning picture quality in the 70" LED Smart TV deliver an unparalleled combination of top technology made affordable without compromising quality or customer support.
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In this way, companies, especially startups, can design their products or services to meet the demands of their customer base without requiring large amounts of initial funding or expensive product launches.
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In concluding its research, the Commission noted that it should be easy to get tools in users' hands for keeping better tabs on ISP-provided services, without needing to contact customer frustrations relations.
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Combine this shift in thinking with a customer whom you can address at any time, anywhere, and marketers face a challenge: Present effective marketing that offers true value to the customer, without constantly bombarding customers with useless messages.
Another provision in the bill would prohibit any company from sending a foreign national employee (on an H-1B or L-1) to work with a customer offsite without first obtaining permission (via a formal waiver process) from the U.S. Department of Labor (or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for an L-1).
No exceptions are provided, unlike rules in other jurisdictions such as the EU where sharing customer information is permitted without consent if it is necessary to complete the sales contract between the customer and the company.
This was exacerbated when a customer entered administration without paying for work and a Patton subsidiary in England went bust.
In the past, sales reps designed products and services based on what the customer wanted, without consulting the technicians who were going to do the work.
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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Even then, the service would not release digital assets without examining a copy of the customer's death certificate, Toeman said.
For new-wave telecoms firms, it provided a way of reaching the customer with advanced services without having to build a new network.
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