The clubs also funnel customers to Vail's core business, skiing.
Bluefly.com has relied on links with America Online and other Internet sites to help funnel customers to its Internet store.
The commission has said it is worried that the business could funnel customers to G.E.'s aviation products, creating an unfair advantage over competitors like Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies.
As the only United States carrier in the alliance -- which includes Air Canada, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Varig, among others -- United's ability to funnel customers to its foreign partners is crucial.
It's all semantics, sure, meant to funnel customers toward the correct service.
They can be used to store electronic deposits from employers or the government, withdraw cash from machines, transfer funds and pay bills.NetSpend, one of the fastest-growing prepaid-card marketers and processors, has even added a feature that lets customers funnel money into an interest-bearing "savings" account.
The company has developed a new feature, which it calls "See It," that is designed to funnel its Comcast customers who use Twitter to the show with a click of a button.
Additionally, the funnel neglects customer lifetime value and profit since the model is purely volume-based, representing a customer as a customer and a sale as a sale.
Artists get a sort of Behance online portfolio for their work, a new funnel for customer acquisition, and calendaring tools plus other client-facing service offerings via Tattoo Hero hosted storefronts.
The acquisition should funnel Twitter's current customer base toward Gnip's popular tools, as well as accrete Gnip's top line to its new parent.
