Sentences with phrase «second things second»

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As Dr. Gunther Klaus, the famed management speaker tells us, the second most valuable thing anyone can do with their time is to invest in marketing efforts that will generate more future billable hours related to their most valuable skill.

If your own internal effort (however well - intended) is a sideline or a sometime thing instead of being laser - focused and constantly top of mind, it's gonna lead to a second - rate result.

Micro-video is the hot, new thing in digital marketing, and Konnekt just launched a 15 - second daily tech show on Instagram.»

People judge our power and authority within seconds of seeing you and without you needing to say a thing.

Think value innovation first, technology innovation second... and always remember they are not the same things.

.5 things i'm loving right this second

«Because we offer so many things, I have a hard time getting across what we do in 60 to 90 seconds,» Azabdaftari says.

«When we look at the world, there's plenty of things to worry about, so we would anticipate there could be episodes of higher volatility in the second half or even next year,» cautions Bruce Cooper, chief investment officer at TD Asset Management.

We present the second annual Canadian Business Power 50 ranking of the rainmakers, string - pullers and master manipulators who truly make things happen in this country.

So with less than a second to spare to get someone on your side, what are some things you can to develop that valuable trust?

Click Forensics helps you determine that, analyzing things like how much time visitors spend on your site (if it's only a second or so, the click likely is fake) and whether you get repeated click - throughs from specific Internet addresses.

I also have a second list beside my bed, because I tend to think of things before I go to sleep.

The more we practice simplifying things the better we will become at it — until it becomes second nature too us.

The second time I sat in their meeting, I realized that Sue asks the same questions at each meeting, and to each rep. Doing things the way we always have done them leads to forecast meetings becoming a waste of time.

Since everyone at the outset is doing multiple jobs and since you can't be everywhere at once, you've got to trust your people to do the right things in the moment, since there's no rule book, no time for extensive preparation and instruction, and there's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression with a lot of new and prospective customers.

And the second thing you can do when you're just starting out is to tell entrepreneurs: «I'm going to work my ass off for you.

I know that sounds like a huge goal, but it feels like the perfect thing to do with the second half of my life and with the skill sets I've developed.

Second of all, if you lie about the job, then the person starts working for you and sees that things aren't the way you presented them, you are going to lose them and they will go work for another company.

I pride myself on two things: First, I can pack everything I need for a whole week in a single carry - on, and second, I rarely need to use the iron at the hotel.

Applicants must record a 20 - second video of themselves answering the following: «What is one thing I believe everybody disagrees with me about?»

The second thing we're going to do is increase support for entrepreneurs and small businesses as they expand internationally.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Among other things, «we are working on building a more personalized, media - rich second screen experience for phones, tablets and GetGlue.com,» he said.

In fact, according to Boothman, doing three incredibly straightforward things within the first two seconds of meeting someone can make you instantly likable to nearly everyone.

The company was introducing two additional products in 1993 — the second release in its early - learning line, and the first in a new line that Stanger had dreamed up for four - to eight - year - olds, called Thinkin» Things.

Second, the baby steps already made by all three major companies, in which users are asked to pay monthly or annual fees for things like storage or accessing music online, will only increase.

«Once we can accomplish that, then the second or third mission can involve bringing things back from the moon,» he added.

The second thing I stress is the importance of simplifying.

The second thing that we need is to get more women around the table.

«So many high - tech, high - speed things are happening internationally, to me, the cutting edge is to be able to market in a split second to China or Japan or any place in the world,» says White.

Second, you believe things that couldn't possibly be true, so you were delusional.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

Second, things might get awkward — but only a little — and that's a good thing.

Here's the thing: According to WWD, Amazon owns 39.4 percent of the $ 201 billion e-commerce market, and Walmart — second on the list of top e-commerce retailers, after Amazon — owns a 6.7 percent market share of e-commerce.

In the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck things.

The second big, big thing is energy consumption.

The second thing we're seeing is something we call, «the final frontier of private equity.»

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

Sure, you put in your take on things, but you can't say things that are blatantly wrong or lacking in depth — because others will see through it in a second.

However, they hedge their bets ever so slightly, whether that means cultivating their networks and looking for additional opportunities, even when things seem to be going great — or even launching a full - blown side business or second (or third) source of income.

Still, to put things in perspective, the U.S. dollar didn't become a global reserve currency until after the Second World War, 150 years after it was created and three decades after the Federal Reserve was formed.

That's one thing investors can be glad about after the tech giant posted disappointing results for its second quarter Tuesday.

Costandi shares the latest neurobiology research, and gives us smart, quirky things like, «According to my calculations, the human brain produces approximately 8.73 gadzillion nervous impulses every second.»

While Case believes it will be harder to start a business today than it was in the second wave, he advises entrepreneurs to keep a few things in mind.

During Tuesday's third quarter earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and other executives donned «Stranger Things» Christmas sweaters with embroidered blinking lights in a stunt designed to promote the second season of the hit show and announce a new merchandising deal with Target.

The second polite thing to do is to call the restaurant and ask what their policy is regarding bringing wine to dinner.

«One or two titles can really change things,» chief executive Ellis Jacob said in an interview on Wednesday, after the company reported that profits dropped 19 per cent in the second quarter.

By 2007, Jimmie Johnson had reached the top level of Nascar — including twice finishing second in the points championship — and yet, «I knew in the back of my mind I wasn't doing things right,» he says.

Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»

While working on GetCrafty, Kalin noticed two things: first, that there were a lot of crafters on the Internet, and, second, that many of them hated eBay.