Less congested networks should help carriers retain customers and decrease their operating costs, says Feldman.
The most popular outlets are still small, independent pet shops, which retain customers by offering credit.
Support a customer-centric inbound program coupled with an outbound follow-up and nurture strategy to foster engagement and retain customers.
Switching costs come in many forms and companies create them to retain customers.
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For years, AOL has encouraged workers to meet minimum "save" targets to retain customers who want to end their subscriptions.
The industry is experiencing growing pressure on margins and a need for pricing flexibility, and must develop new services to retain customers.
Square has now added new a digital loyalty card for businesses to attract and retain customers and for customers to track their rewards.
It can support extremely high volume high speed analytics for clients like mobile phone carriers who want to identify potential churn and provide offers to retain customers.
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The ubiquity of Bank of America's heavily staffed nationwide branch network is what enables it to retain customers despite charging high fees and offering depositors low interest.
They offer the accounts in part because they hope to retain customers as they grow more affluent and use services such as mortgage and business loans and credit cards.
Likewise, if you provide a low margin but high frequency services like payments you must find a way to retain customers for long enough to pay multiples of your customer acquisition cost.
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More and more of sales management is ready to make the transformation, take the leap and reinvent themselves, and lead their entire organization to become a customer-aligned business that can better attract and retain customers.
Already broadcasting the NHL and NBA in the region, the 150 or so baseball games, plus the shoulder programming that comes with it, gives Rogers the hours of yearly sports programming it needs to retain customers.
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He says that many mobile-phone manufacturers use the proprietary connectors on their chargers to retain customers, as people are more likely to buy products for which they already have charging adaptors at home, in the office, or in the car.
Social networks that hope to attract and retain customers need to focus not just on the direct interactions with those customers, as MySpace has indicated it will do, by making its network a forum for sending out information on music, videos and celebrity gossip.
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Marketing and information-technology expenses, in particular, have gone through the roof, as managers spend more to win and retain customers in an increasingly competitive industry, and as they struggle to bring their systems up to scratch for the launch of Europe's single currency and to deal with the millennium bug.
In a statement, Cupid, whose websites include cupid.com, benaughty.com, girlsdateforfree.com and flirt.com, said the company "does not employ members of staff to create fake profiles, impersonate users or use any other dubious practice to encourage customers to take out subscriptions or in order to retain existing customers, nor would the company condone, promote or persuade employees to do so".
Even if they're able to cross the 911 hurdle and retain their customers, VoIP providers also worry that the FCC ruling represents a change in the government's hands-off attitude towards the new technology.
Meanwhile competitors such as Rackspace are aiming to retain their cloud customers through aggressive pricing combined with exceptional service.
Competitors worry Comcast could use the fiber to exploit the loophole in other markets if the company feels it could make more profit by using sports exclusives to retain or attract customers than from reselling games to rivals.
Smaller banks lack the resources of larger competitors and can struggle to attract, retain and grow profitable customers.
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In many cases, what train companies are trying to do is to restore confidence to their customers and retain their loyalty so it's an important decision.
Customers have been attracted to VoIP service because it is cheaper than traditional phone calls, and customers can retain the same phone number regardless of where they live.
Bradlow, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says the goal of a daily-deal campaign should be to acquire new customers and retain them over the long term.
Our vision is to arm marketing teams with the tools and insights to help their organizations execute and measure closed-loop, integrated marketing that helps them better acquire, retain, and grow customers.
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Southwest Airlines have used humor and a positive fun culture to help brand their business, attract and retain employees and to attract customers.
If most of your customers shop online, free shipping can help you retain potential buyers through the crucial checkout process.
We expect the market will remain turbulent for some time to come, but we have seen some evidence of improvement and believe we have the right strategy in place to retain our industry leadership by providing the best value for our customers.
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To do so, Sprint would need to create an ecosystem that will help it convey the value of its 4G WiMax to the customers including blockbuster mobile devices and related applications that attract and retain subscribers.
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But customers should check the fine print of their contracts to make sure that they retain rights to their online brands if they switch ISPs.
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