Even in the best of circumstances, fierce competition from larger, more established companies makes it difficult for small concerns to broaden their customer bases.

即使在最好的情况下，来自更大、更成熟的公司的激烈竞争也使得小公司难以扩大他们的客户群。

The success of the Pixi is important for Palm and Sprint, which need to increase their customer bases.

Pixi能否成功对Palm和Sprint非常重要，两家公司都需要扩大他们的用户基础。

Offerings by Internet firms, with their large existing customer bases, have opened the spigots wider.

互联网公司具有大量客户基础，他们提供的各种产品已经使得银行存款资金流失愈发严重。

But it means improving on offerings from competitors, some of which have large customer bases and ample cash reserves.

但这就意味着要提供优于竞争对手的服务，其中一部分竞争对手拥有庞大的用户群体和充沛的资金储备。

Just ask anyone who does not think CEOs who should use their company brands and customer bases to help them get a message out.

随便问一下，任何人不不会认为CEOs应该使用他们公司的品牌和消费者基础去帮助他们自己散布消息。品牌最终还是属于股东的。CEOs不过是品牌的管理者。

Laszlo Systems continues to carve out their niche in the RIA space with growth in the end user, developer, and customer bases for OpenLaszlo.

随着使用OpenLaszlo的终端用户、开发者和客户基础的增长，Laszlo系统公司继续拓展着他们在RIA领域的空间。

At the same time, companies have discovered the limits of frugality: cutting prices and building big customer bases may sometimes lose them money, rather than making it.

同时，公司发现了节俭带来的限制：降价和建立大规模客户群有时会带来损失而不是赚钱。

The Internet has turbo-charged the growthof multichannel companies, enabling them to leverage their existing assets, brands, and customer bases for revenue and profit growth.

互联网像涡轮增压机对汽车那样，加快了多渠道公司的成长，使他们能够充分利用现有的资产、品牌和客户群来撬动收入和利润的增长。

More difficulty has arisen because vendors have been slow to relinquish their captured customer bases by making their applications easier to integrate with competing systems.

已经出现了更大的难题，因为厂商迟迟不愿为自己的应用系统与竞争对手的系统进行集成提供方便，从而把获得的客户群拱手相让。

Here are a few examples. Say you have a human resources department that bases pay raises on the customer for which an employee works.

这里是几个例子：假设有一个人力资源部门，要根据员工服务的客户提升基本工资。

Howard: That's a good idea. We should really cover all the bases and make sure we have enough for every possible customer.

霍华德：这个主意不赖。我们真应该做到滴水不漏，必须确定数量足够发给每位潜在顾客。

We bases on customer oriented and supply different kind of printing service to our customer.

我们基本是以客人为导向并提供各式不同的印刷服务给我们的客户。

We are cultivating product development, production, and service bases all over the world as we work to provide our world-wide customer base with superior products and services.

在全世界设立研发、生产、售后服务基地，为全世界的客户提供高端产品和优质服务。

Then customer segmentation has become the bases for setting up marketing strategy, branding recommendation system as well as new set lunch developer of mobile communication enterprise.

因此，客户细分已经成为移动通信企业市场营销策略制定、品牌推荐系统、新套餐研发的基础。