This is the evolution of a partnership that has already reaped many rewards for both Williams-Sonoma and CBS. We've enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the 'Early Show,' and this new campaign takes that collaboration one giant step forward. We're confident that the penetration in mall and retail centers across the country that Williams-Sonoma offers, as well as their upscale customer base, makes them the ideal partner to launch what is going to be television's most anticipated new schedule.
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Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
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They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.
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Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
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What it really says is the future of institutional equities will be more like fixed income - a business of proprietary trading and customer execution with customers evolving away form being a client and acting more like a counterparty, ... This idea of a fixed income model for equity - taking risk - seems to be working, he said.
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Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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We see it in everything from health care customer service to consultants who build projects together. They can work out of their homes. That happens more and more. In our market, your office might be in L.A., but you might be there once a week because you don't have to be. It's all Internet and phone.
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One customer well-cared for, a hunded in referals.
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Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
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There's only one customer that should be at the table, and that's the American people. The American people should be the number one and only client of the FDA, and that's purely for safety of drugs.
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Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
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Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back.
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Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
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Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
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The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
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The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.
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If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
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The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
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America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.
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Incentive systems are so key to sales behavior. You put compensation technology in place to direct the behavior of the sales force. That's important, because they're the ones bringing your product to the market and the customer.
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There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing.
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Make a customer, not a sale.
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
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We tested the living hell out of all the different players and all the different downloadable formats, and we chose Microsoft because the customer experience is so great and easy.
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The challenge has been waking up the small-business customer. These guys have not warmed up to networks like they should, but this should help.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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