Sales and reviews were great, the band was working hard, and everyone was having a ball.
Sprint may be able to stem the tide of rising subscriber cancellations with aggressive pricing plans, and the cycle of a lack of exciting, trendy phones appears to be broken thanks to great sales and reviews for the EVO 4G.
It allows you to hand-wave weak sales or bad reviews and blame outside factors like pirates or server failures in the event the game struggles.
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But in publishing, reader satisfaction has largely been gauged by sales data and reviews metrics that offer a postmortem measure of success but can't shape or predict a hit.
The new version, recently launched, has been greeted with rave reviews and sales are running about double the rate of its predecessor.
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Although the novel received positive reviews, sales of the book were not impressive and it took Kerouac a further six years before he was to get his next book printed.
Within the world of consumer electronics, a smart marketing campaign can be relied upon to generate advance sales on the first batch of retail unit sales without relying on reviews or user feedback to drive demand.
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Two key factors in the optimism: great reviews and promising sales reports for the Nook, and a share price that leads some to believe the entire company is very undervalued.
Today Gilt Taste went live with their wine sale page, which features a combination of expert reviews, the sales of carefully selected wines they think are special, and flash sales similar to those on their travel site.
It hasn't hurt that the wiseguy reviews have boosted Hutzler's sales among wiseguys.
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But it raises some questions about the wineries that use his services: Are they making wines purely to get good reviews for the sake of driving sales?
Now the proxy for quality is how your book fares in terms of reviews and ratings on Amazon, and sales.
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Tesla's share price has soared this year on rave reviews for its electric car, growing sales and its first quarterly profit.
The success has to do with more than straight sales numbers think strong sales combined with high consumer satisfaction rates and rave reviews at Consumer Reports.
In addition to conventional marketing documents, those in sales and purchasing will be able to obtain competitive reviews, and prices, and configurations almost instantaneously by asking people on their network for input and feedback.
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Clearly, this approach is antithetical to the major studios, who are hugely reluctant to release games before they are at least nearly perfect (or as perfect as they are going to get), since bad initial reviews might push down first-week sales, when the marketing push is intended to crescendo.
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Duke Nukem Forever was a hugely anticipated title, but sales have been cut by an extremely vast array of negative reviews.
Do customer reviews peppered with grammar mistakes and typos hurt your brand and dampen sales?
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While their new BlackBerry 10 phones have received good reviews, they are dramatically underperforming Wall Street estimates when it comes to sales.
Android devices offer no such guarantee because there is such a great variety in hardware and software, and product reviews, word of mouth, and subsidized price are often the biggest drivers of sales.
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