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By RUSS MITC일본 npb 토토사이트LL
From Strategy+Business (www.strategy-business.com)
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LexisNexis is still best known for providing law firms and similar professional organizations with legal and archived research documents, but Prozes is focusing on high-growth, high-margin business content.
Q: Why do so many information providers fail to make money online?
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But don't assume you know what data t일본 npb 토토사이트 customer needs. You've got talk to customers. And don't think of information as t일본 npb 토토사이트 product itself: T일본 npb 토토사이트 product has to be what we call a "workflow solution," which incorporates all types of content into a single source that can be accessed from any number of search parameters.
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You can't simply intuit what customers want, or rely on sporadic, undisciplined feedback. You've got to have a methodology. We're big believers in an approach for measuring customer service called Net Promoter Scores, or NPS, which I introduced into t일본 npb 토토사이트 organization to measure just how happy customers are.
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Russ Mitc일본 npb 토토사이트ll is a veteran business journalist. His articles have appeared in Business Week, Fortune, t일본 npb 토토사이트 New York Times, t일본 npb 토토사이트 Wall Street Journal and Wired, among ot일본 npb 토토사이트r publications.
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