"One of the key things they're learning to do is keep the acquisition pipeline full of new customers," said Mike McGuire, research vice president at Gartner, the technology research firm.
For example, LendingTree, which functions as a mortgage exchange rather than a lender, has managed to keep customer acquisition costs in check by working in partnership with other online companies, which direct customers to its site.
The interest they are paying, up to 4.69percentt, is so much higher than the average yield on an ordinary savings account, 0.54percentthathatheyey must keep customer acquisition and service costs at a bare minimum to come out ahead.
To keep its acquisition costs low, iPayment uses independent contractors to sign up its merchants.
The patients must be alert and able to focus a central target to avoid decentring and to keep scan acquisition time short [1], [10] [12].
The angle between the sequential images was kept at 10° in order to keep the acquisition time to a minimum.
To avoid devastating motion artifacts, data are usually acquired during natural sleep, trying to keep the acquisition sequences as short as possible.
CT scans of rabbit's cranium soaked in 10% buffered formalin inside a plastic recipient can be made with the head positioned in a natural way, hugged by wax and supported by wood to keep the acquisition stable [ 11].
But as their collection outgrew its first home, they began searching for a place that would allow them to keep their acquisitions together.
The social network doesn't tend to keep its acquisitions going as independent entities, as past users of FriendFeed, Drop.io and Beluga can testify.
