Ms. Schwab said that since Chinese regulations bar foreign suppliers of financial information from directly soliciting customers for their services, they are in effect required to develop new customers only by going through a major Chinese competitor.
Mr. Gubbay's mission is to find and develop new customers and products for Conseco, which sells life insurance and supplemental health care insurance primarily to Americans with incomes of $25,000 to $75,000.
Producers of medical devices — hardware like heart pacemakers and artificial hips — have long insisted that their financial contributions to teaching hospitals are meant to educate doctors, not to develop new customers for their products.
This creates a great opportunity for small and medium sized companies to find and develop new customers in markets outside their domestic ones.
It is easy to keep a customer with a quality products; however, if you have an overpriced or substandard product you will be constantly trying to develop new customers.
Create a new database for organizing projects that resolves deadline issues, develop new ideas for customer care or implement a new organizational system for employee requests or input.
Microsoft said on Wednesday that the European Commission had forced it to hand over trade secrets to rivals, effectively giving them a "free ride" on the work the software maker did to acquire new customers and develop new technologies.
California stands to lose $1 billion in tax revenue in the next decade, it said, unless some of the suppliers develop new products or new customers or both.
"By joining Microsoft in the Cloud OS Network, leading cloud service providers can quickly and cost-effectively develop new services, attract new customers and increase revenues," Microsoft notes.
With the rise of mobile devices and iPads, GE wanted to be able to develop new applications for customers far more quickly.
