Sentences with phrase «biggest customers did»

The department stores that are Leota's biggest customers didn't want their shipments for two to three months — long after several bills were due.

Not exact matches

A study on waiters and tipping published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology demonstrates how even tiny gifts can make a big difference, finding that: «Customers who received a small piece of chocolate along with [their] check tipped more than did customers who received no candCustomers who received a small piece of chocolate along with [their] check tipped more than did customers who received no candcustomers who received no candy.»

Though she often hinted at her regular job — admitting that her husband says she drives too fast and follows too close, as well as telling a customer she loves making left turns — her passengers didn't seem to catch on, although they admitted to being big fans of Patrick on the track.

«The service revenue, bolstered by 100 million new customers year over year — bringing paying members to 270 million — accelerated dramatically, and the expected big guide - down didn't occur, even if the rumored $ 400 billion buyback didn't occur, either,» Cramer continued.

Today, while big retailers know a great deal about their customers, they add rules to their backend software so people don't receive offers regarding things which might be sensitive, Globant's Murphy explains.

The mismatch between Tesla's approach and customer demand created a big opportunity for gray - market resellers — who bought in bulk and catered to buyers who didn't meet Tesla's criteria.

In the wake of a summer filled with headlines about NSA privacy violations, alarm bells are ringing loudly at the idea of «big brother» insurance providers wanting more information about what customers do when they're behind the wheel.

And the bigger hurdle might be luring customers who don't have insurance at all.

The bigger your company grows the more fancy titles there are that have nothing to do with taking care of your customers.

Wal - Mart isn't the only big retail chain that regularly has samples for its customers — Target (TGT) regularly lists free samples on its Web site, and unlike Wal - Mart, you don't actually need to set foot in the store.

A bigger marketing budget is great but it doesn't cost much to let customers know you appreciate them.

Amazon prides itself on selling «Earth's biggest selection» of products, but a large group of Amazon customers doesn't have a laissez - faire attitude when it comes to one brand: The Donald J. Trump menswear collection.

«What if we lost our biggest customer — what would we do?»

To our delight, customers have been doing that to a huge degree, and it's been a big part of our success» — but no amount of tagging by users allows GoPro to get involved in the business of user - generated videos on YouTube.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

When I look at what's happened to Canadian manufacturing over the past five, 10 years, I would say a big concern is the fact that the average manufacturer has one big customer — the United States — and it hasn't been doing very well.

Accordingly, customer education has become a big part of the work Layfield does.

Just because you closed your first one or two big sales doesn't mean you'll be able to close again without putting in the same amount of time, effort and dedication that got you to your first customers.

Only when you've done enough testing to figure out how to create a positive arbitrage between how much you pay to acquire the customer and how much revenue the customer is likely to generate should you throw big money at a roll - out.

«They went from being one of our biggest customers to barely doing business with them,» she says.

Something Andrea hears a lot from customers is, «we hope you guys don't get so big that I don't feel like you're my friend anymore.»

The reason being that the biggest expense would be to educate the customer on what the product does and why it is so important.

If you haven't included Instagram in your marketing strategy, doing so could make a surprisingly big difference, especially with your millennial customers this holiday season.

If his plan works — and given how many customers don't comparison shop, that's a big if — his direct Ripple Rug 2 sales will overtake the Amazon sales of Ripple Rug 1.

«Small business owners should not worry about [a higher minimum], because they will get a higher quality of work, and your business will get much bigger returns from happier customers if you have happy employees doing a good job for you,» Nguyen says.

I didn't realize until I joined that the financial situation was so dire, but I was told that if we could build the product quickly, there were scores of big customers lined up to buy the product and save the company.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 200big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

Before you oil the squeaky wheel, here are some things to keep in mind about the vocal minority — those online customers, trolls and / or community members who have big mouths, but don't actually represent the sentiments of the group.

Axalta uses me for leadership conferences, annual meetings, internal groups, big customers... and I've done engagements for companies like PayPal.

Build the relationship with your biggest fans, and their confidence in doing business with you, by offering them something that is only available to top customers.

A Rusal spokeswoman declined to comment, when asked about the SUAL statement, as did Swiss - based trading and mining giant Glencore, also a Rusal shareholder and one of its biggest customers.

They're doing it with a clear, narrow sense of purpose, a sublime customer experience, and the kind of coherence that seems all but impossible when a company gets old and big, and its founding idea lost to time and well - intended meddling.

When Daniel McCarthy cofounded the music - licensing company Musicbed, he had a big idea: «I don't want customers to just think about Musicbed when they think about music licensing.

This doesn't just fall foul of the technicalities of net neutrality, but of the core principle itself — generally, while operators claim they want to improve their customers» experience, they also want to use their gatekeeper role to demand a slice of the action from the big ad networks.

Everything a large company did, a startup should do — write a business plan; hire sales, marketing, engineering; spec all the product features on day one and build everything for a big first customer ship.

Fitbit CEO James Park had bet big on a new $ 300 smartwatch, dubbed the Ionic, to make up for shrinking sales of cheaper fitness trackers, but it did not attract enough customers.

It also doesn't hurt that larger companies are more trusted by customers and investors, and hence getting bigger makes it easier to get even bigger.

When you start out your company, don't only look at who your customers are today, but look at who might be the next big thing in one year, or in five, or ten!

It's vital for small businesses to show they've got their customers» best interests in mind because they don't have the familiarity of big brand names to fall back on, says Robert Siciliano, a Boston Internet security consultant.

Because Intercom's vision is quite big, to be this singular customer communication platform for all different businesses, to communicate with the customers with the end goal of making internet business personal, there will always be things people want to use us for that Intercom doesn't yet support.

It is your job to serve customers — big ones, tall ones, short ones, small ones — even if you don't find the tall ones all that appealing.

You'll probably find more customers by doing things like attending networking events, industry meetings, and trade shows than through a big social media campaign.

Because if they don't, they are risking the customer not pulling the trigger on the bigger - ticket, multi-year contract, due to dissatisfaction with their first experience with your company.

Frankly, many venture investors who see a race to lock up market share as a first mover in your space may want you incurring big losses in the near term to sign up as many customers as possible today before a competitor does.

«Very big companies don't know a goddamn thing about customer service,» notes retail guru Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of Neiman Marcus Group.

If you advertise a big discount, don't add on a large number of fees that negates any savings the customer might have received.

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.

Getting from users an instant snapshot of how a company is doing is a big breakthrough in customer service, says consultant Patricia Seybold.

«My biggest shock while we did customer development was the number of entrepreneurs and advisers who are working together «informally,»» she wrote recently on the company's blog.

It's a strategy that has launched mega-success stories such as Uber and Airbnb because it encourages companies to ask the most important question: «How do I solve a really big customer problem?»