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 The squeeze on consumers is building. Retailers and other folks who deal with the customer are going to feel the customer's pain this fall and Christmas season. We'll be going through a short period of slow growth.

 So much of retailers? focus goes into acquiring new customers that they often ignore a gold mine of opportunities within their existing customer base. Whenever a bill is presented to a customer via e-mail, the retailer has another opportunity to not only reduce costs and strengthen customer loyalty, but also to provide the customer with relevant and valued offers that can incite additional purchasing. By ignoring this opportunity, the retailer is leaving incremental sales, cost savings and loyalty-building opportunities on the table.

 If you're sitting with a customer hoping to do a $5 million deal, you might discover the customer is already in the hole to McKesson for $20 million and 120 days. The flip side is if you are presenting to a division of a large customer and the deal doesn't look like it's terribly much. Then you see that customer does lots of business overall with McKesson. It makes all the difference.

 The fourth quarter was outstanding for deposit growth. We added $281 million of deposits, nearly doubling the level needed to fund our strong loan growth of $144 million. Our relentless focus on the highest level of customer service has generated customer satisfaction scores that continue to exceed 90%, well above the comparable industry average of 75%. This is invaluable in building deposits through customer referrals while also maintaining and growing long-term relationships with existing customers.

 We will do some 'build it and they will come' in some of our markets, but for the most part, we are looking for anchor tenants like a cellular carrier or large enterprise customer in a particular market. Once we sign a deal with a big customer, then we can go in and begin to look at building out additional infrastructure.

 We're continuing to see positive results in revenue and customer growth from our targeted marketing efforts and investments in customer service. Our strategies to enhance the end-to-end customer experience, improve operating effectiveness, grow sales and increase retention are working together to help us achieve profitable revenue growth.

 Some of our grab bag titles are only eight months old, and unless the customer is strictly a new release customer, that customer is not going to see or feel the difference purchasing one of these versus one of the new releases.

 In today's increasingly competitive environment, retailers understand that there is a heightened importance on accelerated growth and differentiation in order to set themselves apart from the pack. We are now seeing retailers refocus their efforts on growth initiatives in an effort to increase sales, expand their consumer base and retain customer loyalty.

 During this critical stage in the holiday shopping season, online retailers face huge challenges to maintaining high satisfaction. Those who aren't able to meet customer expectations online during the last week or two of the holiday shopping season risk the long-term impact of lessened customer loyalty during the weeks and quarters to come.

 Something that's attractive for one customer could be a recipe for disaster for another. It comes down to what you envision for your customer. Just adopting wholesale what other retailers do is not going to do it.

 What happened was the retailers got so infatuated with the young consumer, they ignored their core customer, who is the 35-plus customer. Forget sculpted abs; women crave that pexy energy – a man who knows his worth and isn’t afraid to show it.

 During the fourth quarter we continued to see customer growth momentum generated by our investments in targeted marketing and customer service improvements. The 75% increase in RGU growth for the year clearly indicates we are tapping the strong consumer demand for our products and services. Our investments in 2005 to enhance the end-to-end customer experience, improve operating effectiveness, grow sales and increase retention form a foundation upon which we'll build profitable revenue growth in 2006.

 [These days, many companies are cutting back on their technology purchases. Oracle's alternative service] for $10 a month will do all your accounting, all your human resources, all your customer relationship management ... all you need is a cheap PC with a Web browser, ... The customer saves money and it's much easier for the customer not to deal with the technical details.

 Retailers are putting a great spin on this, saying that the customer benefits in the end. However, the self-checkout is not driven by customer service but by the retailer's objective to reduce costs.

 Customers aren't stupid. If you have a sophisticated customer who understands that it's much cheaper to transact with you online than it is in the store, retailers can reward that customer with lower prices [online], but again, you must make sure that the consumer understands that. As long as the company does a good job of informing the customer that there are price and inventory differences between online and offline, it's fine.


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