They plan to keep the product as affordable as possible for their target customers.
When they were done, you knew their target customers, their business models and their go-to-market strategies.
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Critically, while Fiat and Chrysler have vastly different lineups, their target customers are in similar income brackets.
Companies that embark on strategic growth planning inevitably come to the conclusion they do not intimately understand their target customers.
They are moving quickly to speak with their target customers across the Pandora platform, with the majority of the top 50 digital advertisers in the U.S. already having bought multiplatform advertising on Pandora.
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What actions have you seen that have been effective for retailers to target their customers?
Yahoo offers a service, Audience Match, that lets retailers find and target their customers online.
The rise of social media, big-data analytics, and smart mobile devices has given use more real-time information about their target audiences and customers than ever before, but also has made reaching them more difficult.
Just as importantly, they have the communications infrastructure to publicize their research and findings to target customers.
The so-called Durbin amendment, for instance, limits the fees banks can collect from merchants like Target and Walmart when their customers swipe their debit cards there.
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The new payment system would allow Google to offer retailers more data about their customers and help them target ads and discount offers to mobile-device users near their stores.
Companies often target all customers equally, irrespective of their needs, and this often leads to resource allocation inefficiencies and customer dissatisfaction.
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Companies often target all customers equally, irrespective of their needs.
Target customers are regional advertising agencies and their clients.
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The White House regulatory plan will also effectively put the kibosh on so-called industrial loan companies--banks created by outfits such as Target and Harley-Davidson to provide credit and other financial services to their customers.
Wal-mart used this target block over the Thanksgiving weekend to deliver 50 million mobile ads to their existing and potential customers.
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They can follow their customers' shopping habits so closely that they can learn their likes and dislikes and target them with exactly the right promotions.
Target customers include petroleum companies drilling in remote locations, long-haul trucking companies and airlines (their passengers being unable to use their cell phones in flight).
At the website IMDDOS.org, paying customers can download an application that gives them temporary use of the hijacked collection of computers to target their own DDOS attacks with just a few keystrokes.
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