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Hattie: Most owners like Howard Kent, who’s been running his company since the 60’s work hard to apply technologies as they evolve. The goal is always to automate and streamline business processes.
Howard: But with the advents of computers and advents of telemarketing, we can now find out how much we have in stock instantly, how much did we sell this item year-to-date, this year, last year. Are we increasing our sales of this, decreasing our sales, what’s the cause? Keep track of it any way we want. We can tell when a customer last bought it, how much did they buy, how much did we make from them. When did they use, decided, is it a seasonal item? This has enabled us to cut our inventory by a third.
Hattie: Today, there are strong companies that only exist because of advanced technologies. E-harmony launched a web service to help the millions of singles in the world find the love of their lives.
This bride met this groom on eharmony.com.
Male: If you could reduce the divorce rate from where it is now to single digits, 9 or a fewer percent, it would be the greatest single social revolution in the history of the human race. And all of a sudden, America would be such a different country.
Over 90% of all singles want to be married if they can find the right person. So they deeply want to get married and a fact for a lot of people becomes a burning yearning.
The choice you make of a marriage partner will have more to do with the eventual success of your marriage than everything else combined that you do after you get married.
Hattie: In 1993, Dr. Neil Clark Warren wrote the book Finding the Love of Your Life. Then, in 1995, Greg Forgach joined him to launch their first company to offer seminars based upon the principles in the book.
In August of 2000, the two opened their second business, eharmony.com. Today, the service is being used by millions of paying customers.
Anyone can take the free personality profile. Answer the 436 questions and what is easy to use and seems like common sense today is the result of decades of work by Neil Clark Warren.
And it’s the VP of Operations, Greg Steiner who has to keep the intricate infrastructure functioning under the weight of fast growth.
Greg: So we make every effort possible to make sure we have a very highly available service, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year so people can come and find the love of their life anytime they wish.
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