Sentences with phrase «farther than a customer»

In today's online world word - of - mouth spreads a lot farther than a customer's friends.

If you want to see the future of shopping, look no further than your customers» smartphones.

Not exact matches

The disclosures signal that the bank's problematic sales practices go further than investors and analysts had expected after Wells Fargo reached a settlement with regulators in September over unauthorized customer accounts.

A bigger sample than Desjardins» current roster of 40,000 customers would also be needed for telematics to provide a reasonable amount of data though, and so far, consumer concerns about UBI devices are still riding high.

There's nothing worse than further frustrating an already frustrated customer, so being easily accessible and responding to complaints quickly is very important for maintaining loyalty and credibility.

Although he declines to offer specifics, Gunn claims the store, which opened last summer and had no fewer than 400 screens arrayed around the floor, has «far exceeded [his] expectations» in terms of sales and customer feedback.

Look no further than Best Buy, which used customer feedback to improve its in - store experience.

But the experience can go further than this: Make the survey social with links to Facebook, Twitter, Google + and other social media sites so that customers can spread the word about entering your promotions.

And, on the flip side, if you know you are materially better than your competitors in certain areas the customer desires, answer questions with answers you know will far outshine those of your competitors.

Look no further than Trip Advisor and Yelp reviews, where customers vent and complain about bad experiences.

Look no further than TD for an example of how to build rock solid customer loyalty ---- an increasingly important trait in a market promised to be overhauled by tech startups.

It's far easier and less expensive to sell to existing customers than to acquire new ones, Herjavec added, so maintaining a robust customer mailing list is a good way to increase your revenue at a low cost.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

Finally, and this is perhaps the most noteworthy point, I'm certain they would all agree that business and entrepreneurial success is based primarily on developing products and services that are far better at meeting critical customer needs than the competition.

If your business has a better «onboarding» process than your competitors, I guarantee you will have far greater word of mouth (and word of mouse) and just as importantly, you will build much stronger relationships with these new customers that will reduce the chances of losing them way too soon in the business relationship.

The banks, he reckons, are likely to gravitate to LendingTree because it can generate the highly targeted customers they need far more cheaply than serving them through branches and running their own ads on Google.

It's far better to compete on quality, ingenuity and customer service than to position yourself as your industry's low - cost provider.

I believe very strongly that any business that is extremely good at following up on quotes is going to get far more than their share of new customers.

Look no further than the problems Uber and Lyft have had with some of their drivers, who undergo only a cursory background check before they start driving customers.

Starship's robot is a far more practical delivery creature than Fudgems, the giant brownie that used to terrorize customers in Domino's commercials by covering them with chocolate fudge.

Others said that because mining bitcoin gradually becomes more difficult over time, Kodak KashMiner customers may see far smaller returns than they anticipated.

Sprint (s) and T - Mobile (tmus) still have far fewer customers than Verizon and somewhat less broad wireless coverage, though they are closing that gap.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Now comes a McKinsey & Co. survey stating that email is a far more effective way to acquire customers than all that tweeting and posting and «liking» you're doing on social media — nearly 40 times more than Facebook and Twitter combined.

Starbucks» technology took far less time, but in January the chain said mobile orders poured in faster than they could be processed, creating backlogs that drove away time - crunched walk - in customers.

As I continued, I realized that I needed to look even further out than this; I needed to understand how I will reach my customers to scale my business, and to incorporate that understanding in the product definition itself.»

One customer telling a group of girlfriends how much she loved a SoulCycle class is far more valuable than any advertising money can buy.

«So far this year, we have converted more than 7,000 temporary employees in the U.S. into full - time, regular roles and we're looking forward to converting thousands more after this holiday season,» said Dave Clark, Amazon's vice president of worldwide operations and customer service, in a statement.

The web offers a ton of tools and services to help you do business, connect with your customers, and provide far more than you can with a limited staff and budget.

The company figures it has so far helped customers save more than $ 6.1 billion, by identifying contracts that should be renegotiated and by consolidating expense data across locations and departments.

The company has also added more than 30,000 new customers in its DSS division so far this year, 42 % above the average growth rate, which will give revenue a boost.

If we ask a customer to take one big leap of faith and complete an action, they are far less likely to be persuaded than if we'd started small.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

With countless choices, unlimited information and peer reviews, customers are far more fickle than generations past and more likely to leave a brand just because a friend recommends something else.

So far SolarCity has installed systems for more than 140,000 customers (it's No. 2 in commercial installations), and its sales, which doubled in the latest quarter from the year before, are on track to hit $ 250 million in 2014, according to Credit Suisse.

But getting too far ahead of your skis, spending more than you can afford shooting for levels of unnecessary precision, setting standards that make no sense and add no value to your offerings, or trying to address too broad a set of needs and customers are formulas for expensive failures.

So far, it claims that 40,000 customers have enrolled — more than double what it had a year ago.

Near customers, because gasoline is much more volatile than crude oil; you don't want to transport it far or in large quantities if you can avoid it.

TalkTalk says the amount of data potentially stolen is far less than the 4 million initially feared — just 157,000 customers have apparently been affected.

Their buyers are fickle and far more fashion - forward than the average customer.

Binns said there was strong interest in the new aircraft, which are far quieter and produce far less carbon dioxide than fixed - wing aircraft, but he declined to predict when the companies would be able to announce a launch customer.

And it was stuck with paying its customers far more return on their annuities than its tattered investment portfolio, packed with toxic real estate securities, could earn.

So far, about 7 percent of Step2's customers have registered on the company's website with their Facebook IDs, and of those who have, more than half of them have shared product reviews with their Facebook friends.

Of course it's up to the business to turn those newcomers into loyal customers but getting people in the door is far, far more than half the battle.

That's because selling products to your existing customers is far less risky than «having to learn a new product and market at the same time,» McFarland says.

Dignity is in dispute with Beyond, a British comparison site, which last year claimed it was charging customers far more than the market rate.

But Canada's attempt to diversify its own base of foreign customers (away from the U.S., that is, rather than Europe) have been far less successful.

In the case of Uber, by expanding the supply of drivers and offering a far better experience, many more customers decided to use taxi services rather than other modes of transportation, expanding the marketplace and eventually spurring on both innovation and competition.

Street Smarts — getting out and understanding customers is far more important than book smarts or computer research.

Many entrepreneurs intuitively know that some customers are worth far more to the business than others.