Sentences with phrase «big customer model»

That's why he is focused on keeping costs down — there's that small team, big customer model again — and supplementing the wares with such loyalty - engendering value - added services as same - day shipping.

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The model offers big savings for customers — generally half of what a local car - rental agency would charge.

Under the «shared responsibility» security model proffered by the Big Three, the complex burden for securing business networks that use cloud services resides with customers for the most part.

The company source compared this problem to Toyota delaying the new model year of its Camry with a «a bigger backseat and engine»: Most customers won't mind, the source said, since last year's model works fine — and the new version doesn't even have a release date.

In fact, you have a big advantage over most of the big companies: making a change to your business model based on customer feedback is probably a lot easier and can be implemented a lot quicker.

That's because the company, whose 23 million customers make it the biggest subscription video provider in North America, is blazing trails in digital distribution and proving the «cloud» model can work for all content providers, including game makers.

According to Pettis, MakerBot's current biggest customer is NASA, which uses their printers for early prototyping models.

Other big predictions include the possibility that the iPhone's «home» button will double as a fingerprint scanner on new models, offering an extra level of security for wary Apple customers.

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Tesla is hoping to excite customers willing to pay a (big) premium for the solar roof, some of whom will be the same customers who buy a Model S or other electric vehicle.

Delaney said he sees two events unfolding: «The existing players... will adopt this rule, make changes to their business models as needed, and they'll work hard to keep every one of their customers because one of biggest costs that financial services companies have are what's called customer acquisition — meaning the money they spend for customers,» he said.

There is one other big advantage in terms of Dropbox's model, at least from a founder and early investor perspective: the tradeoff of Box earning ever - increasing amounts of revenue per paying customer is the amount it takes to land that customer in the first place.

It is adapted from Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas and optimized for the Lean Startup methodology with a big emphasis on finding customer problems worth solving.

So, generally, the biggest deltas are, one, a little bit weaker on the handset side; two, a little more conservative modeling of what happens later in the year than what we had, which frankly is not, again, just to drive that point home, nobody knows how many people are going to buy a new handset when it's launched on the market — not us, not our customers, not analysts, or you name it.

A business model explains which consumer pain your startup chooses to relieve, why your solution works better than competing ones and how big a wedge a company can drive between what customers are willing to pay and the costs.

Rich Barton is very similar in his ability to know whether (1) the customer's problem is real and significant enough that they will pay for the solution, the market is big, and that there is a business model with a potential moat.

Customers who don't have that option are expecting big changes to their grocery stores, and the current model that hasn't evolved in decades quickly becomes a bigger frustration at larger chains.

This model means a big part of Blue Nile's business is making and shipping jewelry on demand — a model that works well if the company doesn't have to warehouse merchandise in China and can instead ship to Chinese customers after their rings are made in Seattle.

Planned Parenthood's effective business model was pioneered by drug pushers - give away freebies in anticipation of bigger - ticket sales when the customer is desperate.

A big part of the reason why Biggby Coffee's locations can feel so comfortable for customers is the owner - operators who run those locations, and McFall says this model has been a big success for the company.

After trying to look at the Britax B - Agile Double Stroller from every angle, and researching genuine customer feedback, it's safe to say that, although there were some weaknesses pointed out by some users, the big majority of parents who have bought this model have expressed their appreciation.

Since its creation in 2002, more than 1300 mouse models were done for our customers: academic labs, European Union or big pharmaceutical groups.

Why it matters While the big Bentayga is the brand's pinnacle model, its exorbitant price tag is so far out of reach that it won't bring in many new customers.

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The biggest difference is that although Mercedes - Benz models get matte - finished buttons, Maybach customers get glossy - finished buttons.

The Big 3 are going back to the future with bigger and more powerful cars as a way to bolster slumping sales and sagging market share, according to preliminary 1991 model information provided fleet customers.

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«The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell has arrived as the next big leap forward in electric drive mobility, with next - generation style, fun - to - drive performance and customer comfort,» said Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «In the year ahead, we will continue the rollout of the new Clarity series of electrified vehicles, to include battery - electric and plug - in hybrid models.»

As big of a hit that the CLA - Class has been for Mercedes - Benz over the last year, the GLA - Class should do even better positioned in the red - hot market for subcompact luxury utility vehicles, and it definitely won't hurt for customers to have the option of this GLA45 AMG model that looks as sporty as it drives.

The Audi Q3 has been a segment leader ever since its introduction and our best - selling model is therefore even more appealing and bound to attract customers who believe in the «Stay Young, Live Big» philosophy of the Audi Q3,» said Rahil Ansari, Head, Audi India.

That, Katsumata said, was a big positive because it avoided the need to stiffen the sport models to the point where traditional Camry customers would be uncomfortable.

Amazon — for everybody except the former Big Six — insists on the wholesale model which gives them 50 % of the publisher's set price to divide as customer discount and margin as they choose.

The big problem with the unlimited model is that publishers want to be paid for the full amount of the book's purchase price if a customer reads a certain number of pages.

Can publishing companies adopt the Pottermore model of distributing their ebooks and make big booksellers direct customers to a third party website?

«As consumers become self - serve and mobile - dependent, new models and approaches to both customer relations and local discovery are emerging, and hospitality is the big crucible where all of this is playing out,» says Rafat Ali of Skift.

One of the big advantages that Amazon offered customers was the free internet access if you purchased the various 3G models.

The business model that Scribd and Oyster used to get big publishers to sign on — one in which the publisher was paid, essentially, an ebook's full wholesale price when a reader completed just a portion of it — doesn't appear to be sustainable, especially when the customers willing to pay a flat monthly fee are also those who read a lot.

Samsung made big gains in last year's study, too, rising 2.2 % between 2012 and 2013, so it appears the company's strategy of providing multiple tablet models among multiple lines — ostensibly to serve every possible customer preference — is paying off.

Now, Best Buy (BBY) has clearly explained that one of the biggest weaknesses with their business model is so - called «showrooming», where customers simply come to their stores to look at the products, and then buy them online.

Retailers are also likely to drop prices for big - ticket items like electronics and appliances during holiday sales or when a newer models are released to get more customers through the door.

Now, Best Buy (BBY) has clearly explained that one of the biggest weaknesses with their business model is so - called «showrooming», where customers simply come to their stores to look at the products, and then -LSB-...]

It's a very folksy business model that he has and his customers are big businesses that do manufacturing, industry, traditional businesses, so he's very much in the same vein as say a business lawyer or an estate planning lawyer who's going after wealthy clients so I thought he was worth listening to.

Over the next 5 to 10 years, the biggest business gains will stem from the gathering and sourcing of data and providing this data in new products and / or business models to the customers / client.

It deserves a name that lets customers know that it's a big step up from last year's model.

The interior has a striking similarity to Tesla's Model S (the big whopper of a touchscreen in the center) and a Model X (the big windshield), but Xiaopeng thinks it can get this car into customer's hands at a far - cheaper premium than Tesla's offerings.

Sprint, the third - biggest mobile carrier in the nation, is offering the latest iPhone models through a leasing program that it is banking on to help it catch up with Verizon Wireless and AT&T and gain more customers, even as T - Mobile is aggressively waging a price war from the lower end.

That same model costs between $ 600 and $ 696 for postpaid customers at the Big Four carriers.

The next iPad models may also feature a 32 GB storage by default, which may sound appealing to customers who are keen on having devices with a larger storage capacity for keeping bigger apps and files.

As the OnePlus 3 includes 6 GB of RAM, smartphone customers will hope that the bigger model also comes with at least the same RAM as the regular version.

Earlier iPhone models all had screens that measured between 3.5 inches and 4 inches diagonally, even as customers clamored for an iPhone with a bigger screen.