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- <font size=5>S</font>ome customers will simply be classed "below zero"
- - not worth serving. Little old ladies who chat unprofitably to
- the bank teller for instance will be charged prohibitive rates
- to force them to close their accounts.</blockquote>
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- <font size=5>J</font>obs will be lost. Identifying the shoes a customer wants
- before producing them will cut down on waste but it will also cut
- down on production.
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- <font size=5>P</font>ersonal contact between customers and staff will also be
- cut. It is better to use a machine to communicate wherever possible,
- says Peppers, because then the company can control the "dialogue
- interface".</blockquote>
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- <font size=5>I</font>n the faintly sinister language of Peppers' new book Enterprise
- One to One: "Some customers are more equal than others".
- Sound familiar?
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- <font size=5>E</font>nterprise One to One by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers published
- by Doubleday is on sale in the UK from later this month.
- <a href="http://www.marketing1to1.com">www.marketing1to1.com</a>
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