Sentences with phrase «for early customer»

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It's still early days for DirecTV Now, and there's plenty of time to address the errors and improve the customer service experience.

Direct customer feedback is valuable — especially for new and emerging companies — because they provide a significant opportunity to improve your company's experience early on.

They established early on that their product had a certain value, and their customers so far have been willing to pay for it.

Early on, Legere had a line installed in his office to listen in on customer service conversations, which he would do for hours, often late into the night.

McDonald's launched McPick 2, its new value menu, earlier this month, in which customers can pick two out of four items (mozzarella sticks, fries, McDouble, and McChicken) for $ 2.

They justify their early focus on luxury goods by noting numerous high - end brands successfully expanded into the mass market by grabbing «customers hungry for a piece of the brands» cachet.»

Earlier this year, Hooters» investor Chanticleer announced plans to offer customers digital currency in return for eating at their outlets.

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

For example, tell a customer their order will be ready by the end of the month, knowing you will have it ready a week earlier.

«If a venture's mentor network, investors, and early customers are in Kansas City, for example, why would you pull them out of the community that is best positioned to support them?»

When you're early in a startup, a founder or one of the first few people to join, you will at times realize that new information from customers or a smart mentor shows that what you were working on for the last weeks or months is the wrong thing to do.

When I was in my early 20s, I was very brash, overbearing, and difficult to work with, mostly as a result of my passion for the business and for ensuring a good customer experience.

In early June, payroll services colossus ADP suddenly blocked Zenefits accounts from accessing its ADP Run HR and payroll solution for small businesses, claiming that Zenefits traffic was overloading its servers and that Zenefits connected with ADP payroll resources in a manner that threatened to expose Social Security numbers and other sensitive customer data.

While you'll certainly reach a larger audience online, sometimes there are huge benefits from gaining a few loyal customers in the early stages of your start - up who will act as brand ambassadors for the rest of your company's life.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

The startup had several connections to Branson: Giegel briefly worked for Virgin Galactic in 2014; fellow co-founder Shervin Pishevar, a high - profile venture capitalist, was an early reservation holder on Galactic's celebrity - studded list of customers waiting to take a flight into space.

The brewer was sued earlier this year in a complaint that sought class action status for MillerCoors allegedly misleading customers.

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 2000s.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

The business now represents about 13 % of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10 % a year earlier,» notes a Reuters report, which points to revenue from things like Pixel phones and cloud computing services for business customers.

Uber, for example, was forced to respond by its customers, its drivers, and an early misstep.

«While the U.S. funded our very early growth, for a variety of reasons at this phase, we get better ROI with Canadian customers.»

In his interview on Masters of Scale, Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, mentions a story about how his move to New York in the early days of the company to be near customers made all the difference for Airbnb's focus.

In addition to ads, Julep regularly taps customers for input, including polling its Idea Lab, a group of 5,000 customers who weigh in on early prototypes.

All three fin - tech entrepreneurs provide advice for those thinking about launching a fin - tech startup: Know your bank contact; talk to your customers early; and be smart about seeking advice.

Early Information and Options for Avoiding Foreclosure: This is all about giving customers a chance to modify their loans if they fall into default.

The key for the newcomers is delivering the performance that incumbents» customers require, while preserving the advantages that drove their early success.

Still, the Kickstarter effort yielded $ 408,000 for Bia and led to three early hires, including its head of customer service and its product manager, both of whom were among the 2,118 people who signed up to back the campaign.

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

The express lanes already exist, having been put in place earlier this year to speed up service for its pharmacy (prescription drugs) and money service customers.

For the first time, customers trusted products they couldn't examine in person on an extraordinarily wide scale, an early and obvious precursor to the world of online shopping.

But as my research has shown, the reputation for a credence good is only as strong as the homework that early customers have done.

Listening too much to early adopters often leads to an expensive death spiral, since these users will request more and more features, more precise control of the technology, and more interoperability, all of which increase the complexity of the product, and decrease the usability for the average customer.

After we deliver a good experience to those early customers, we can talk about making tons of them for next Christmas.»

I'd say earlier this year we were thinking that this second half of calendar 2012 would be a little bit more robust for enterprise infrastructure customers, just because the spending levels have been so low.

Santa came early for customers at a Walmart when a man walked into the store and donated $ 50,000 to pay off all customer layaway accounts.

Having a vision for the future, listening to challenges from both internal and external customers, and aligning every employee and function around the company's mission are all important for growing an early - stage company.

The company, which has dubbed itself the «un-carrier,» will pay early - termination fees of up to $ 650 — on up to five total lines — for individual customers or families who opt to trade in their devices and port their numbers to T - Mobile's service network.

At the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customers.

The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI), which handles customer disputes for Scotiabank, CIBC and Bank of Montreal, says it opened 370 banking - related investigations in 2017 to handle customer disputes for its clients, compared with 290 a year earlier.

After you've built up a solid group of customers, start spreading around what you did for your early adopters.

«We are asking customers to show up at the airport early... It's just inconvenient for the passengers,» President and Chief Operating Officer Walter Cho told Reuters in Taipei.

Even in the early days, Trader Joe's appeal was its narrow but zany selection and loyal customers, recalls Dieter Brandes, who did due diligence on the company for Albrecht.

Comcast added 350,000 high - speed internet customers during the quarter, slightly less than a year earlier, but still the largest source of sales growth for the company.

Early customers for a fresh product rarely pay list prices as discounting is common to draw interest and attention to new planes.

For example, they cite Schultz's idea earlier this year that began Starbucks» «Race Together» campaign, which asked baristas to start a conversation with customers about race relations in America by writing the phrase on to - go coffee cups.

«We met with the Facebook team earlier this year, and immediately began development of this service for our customers.»

By taking on early seed funding, startup founders will be committing to an early valuation, revenue and customer benchmarks, and tight time frames for delivering results.

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

Cisco (CSCO) pledged $ 10 billion in capital spending over several years earlier this year in what some watchers described as a desperate play for relevancy in China after Cisco's sales have plummeted following Edward Snowden's disclosures two years ago that Cisco's customers» products were used by the NSA.