18. list two reasons that timing purchases is important to a business.

Customer perceived urgency: On-line companies, specially, time the purchases made by clients because this create a sense of urgency in the client and make him take the decision to buy faster. This technique is specially used during sales campaigns.  

Improving Services Standards: Again, in On-line businesses it is important to know how much time does it take to a client to find the product wanted and buy it. then the companies timed this period to find better ways to design its web pages that ultimately lead to faster purchases.

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administrative jobs normally have someone answering phone calls and scheduling appointments, filing patient or customer information, making sure the front of the office looks nice to those who enter the building. administrative jobs can also include making sure the manager has everything they need for meetings, making delivers and much more. administrative jobs are important to most businesses as are customer service focused as they are often one of the first impressions a consumer sees of a business.