Sentences with phrase «about slow business»

In many law firms, the only time the salespeople talk to the marketers is to complain about slow business, to demand a one - off personalized promotion, or to answer yet another RFP from a large corporate client.

Not exact matches

Similarly, managing your cash flow in a business is all about slowing down cash payments while encouraging any money owed to make its way to you.

BCG surveyed nearly 450 executives at companies with more than US$ 1 billion in revenue in seven countries about their plans and expectations, and concluded that businesses have not done enough cutting or rethinking to prepare for the slow growth ahead.

The adoption of marketing automation platforms has also been slow across businesses of all sizes — only 10 % of businesses in North America are using these tools, as many just started learning about the possibilities.

«The beauty of our company,» chairman Grauer observes, «is that as a private business with essentially one shareholder, we can take a very long - term view about these opportunities,» tolerating a «slow ramp - up to profitability.»

For years, business leaders have complained about government being too slow or unfriendly to business.

Those numbers are similar to what we've seen most of 2012, but in addition the Scorecard survey also found that 80 % of small business owners are now concerned about an economic slowdown because of turmoil in Europe and slow growth in the U.S.

I could easily argue that this was a very strong quarter for Big Blue, and that people are about to see IBM's faster - growing portions overtake its slower - growing business.

Still, it predicted slower sales growth in 2013 and confirmed reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement had requested information about its business and financial operations.

It's not uncommon to think about the extra things you can do during the slow times to keep a seasonal business profitable all year, but these five suggestions might help you maximize your busiest seasons to distribute profits throughout the year and profitably manage your business» finances.

«One of the reasons to wait is to find out do we get uncertainty in the market about future economic policy and does that create a correction in the equity market and slow down business engagement?»

Chinese businesses have expressed difficulties with adjusting to the specificities of business culture in Russia — likely referring to its slow pace and complex bureaucracy — compared to the business cultures in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.61 Even though Russian attitudes toward the Chinese may be improving, this change is only recent, and long - standing perceptions that Russians harbor anti-Chinese sentiment may still fuel Chinese doubts about the feasibility of pursuing business endeavors in Russia.

Over the last four quarters, that's come down to about 62 per cent, close to the historical average, on the back of business spending on investment and inventories that's already much stronger than usual and will probably slow.

By launching LitePay, Litecoin is delivering a system whereby businesses can accept cryptocurrency without having to worry about slow transactions or price volatility.

Indian firms were also slow - starters in new technologies because they were worried about cannibalising their legacy businesses.

You literally throw everything in your slow cooker, stir, cover and go about your business while the veggies cook to perfection.

Very worried about todays game monreal cb alongside mert both slow bellerin little experience and not proven yet think hull will come and have a right go at exploiting those weaknesses just can't see us keeping clean sheet just hope going forward we are on top form we are gona need to score a few to win this hull can't be underestimated they done best business in transfer market without a doubt and they can seriously hurt us if we are not on top of our game!

«So the slow - burning sun is critical for our existence,» says Close, «and the slow - burning sun is because the weak force is so feeble, and it's feeble because the W boson is very massive, and the W boson is very massive because of all this Higgs business we've been talking about.»

So you load this slow cooker chickpea curry into the machine, turn it on to high or low depending on how long you'll be out for, and while you're carrying about your business it's doing it's thing, slowly but surely, until dinner time rolls around and you've got a satisfying vegetarian curry all ready to go.

Dependably, however, Scott intrudes upon the slow burn of their kindling romance, cutting away from Robin and Marion's bonfire pas - de-deux for some far distant plot business and then cutting back to Robin and Sir Walter as the latter reveals the long - buried secret of Robin's patrilineal descent: seems that Robin's stonemason daddy had some unique ideas about all men being created equal, and set them down in a document that bears a certain resemblance to one M ---- C ---- ...

A bizarro Grand Guignol psychological thriller about a young business executive (Dane DeHaan) who is sent to a rehabilitation spa in the Swiss Alps from which no one ever leaves, «A Cure for Wellness» is a creepy, slow - burning exploration of the porous boundary between health and sickness, sanity and madness, packed with disturbing, visually striking images of slithering eels, torturous dentistry and eerily empty hallways.

His sister Cyril (the great Leslie Manville) is not so sure about her, protective of her brother, their name, business and reputation, but she moves in and the slow tensions begin.

It starts off with a slow, intensely boring conversation about business matters among three men at lunch.

Push things a little harder and the car still goes about its business with impressive composure, while my test car's optional carbon - ceramic brakes slow things down in rapid fashion.

No qualms at all about the GTi's brake package which combines 380 mm ventilated front discs and Alcon calipers up - front that really do the business when this hard - charger needs to be slowed down.

No — like we said, its page - refreshes are a little slow, and for a device that's all about the business of reading, that's no small thing....

It took me about an hour to read The Business of Media and I'm a slow reader.

Conclusion If your business is slowing, think twice about canceling your insurance to cut expenses.

The promotion includes travel in July, a month that's traditionally slow for Business Class travel and, as a result, brings about some excellent Business Class fares... like this one for example:

The only question is what are we going to put in our slingshot, and why are we so slow in getting about the business so clearly at hand?

So far, when businesses have looked at installing electric vehicle charging, most have opted to go for slower, Level 2 charging which provides most vehicles with about 20 miles of charge in an hour.

The truth will be out this September, when the Bloor Street «pilot project» is evaluated, when the drivers complain about their trip being slowed down, when the retailers complain that the removal of parking spaces hurt their businesses, when the police and fire services complain about longer response times.

Just as the slow food movement is all about really getting into food and the community it engenders, we think we need a slow business movement that's about the quality of work and the experience of doing it — as opposed to the alternative — namely the tendency to turn work into an ever - escalating arms race of longer hours, quicker email responses, and an obligation to be checking your Blackberry at your kid's birthday party.

Business is about staying on top of an economy, not trying to slow it down.

«While we do get a bad reputation in the law that we're slow adopters, what we're seeing now with artificial intelligence is that we are among the first folks to move into it because it makes a lot of sense for our business model and this is about the practical use of this,» said Arruda.

Of course, slow weeks often meant I didn't have enough business to keep me busy, so I would be stressed out about making money instead of being stressed out about my next hearing.

But when then you start to look at the middle managers, the supervisors, and people that have grown in the business and quite often don't know how to do this kind of stuff and are focused on hitting a target or a number and not understanding the impact of spending time with their team, growing their team, slowing down every day to show that they care about the personal lives of their teammates.

When it comes to law firm business, not everyone is depressed about the slow growth that plagued many firms in 2017, and that's predicted to persist into the new year.

One of my favorite moments was when she used Daniel Kahneman's: Thinking Fast and Slow (a book about Behavioral Economics), as a reference as to how it relates to the business of a law firm.

An executive in the chemical products business said, «We are concerned about the impact of tariff and trade wars on demand, but at this time, [there are] no signals that global demand is slowing.»

The benefits for Poloniex will likely be huge since the exchange's fast - paced business has slowed somewhat in the past several months in the face of an onslaught of complaints about its service.

When business got a little slow i went into the fast food industry, working for Mcdonalds for about a year and a half.

San Francisco About Blog Don't let the confusion of marketing slow down your business.

I became lax about it when business was booming, but when things slowed down, I bought into marketing gimmicks to pick up more clients.

When times are slow, we find ourselves doing the dirty work: extra floor time, double open houses, mailers, or overspend on internet leads, google ad words, Real Estate sites that barely feature you... We are trying to get back to the peak and in doing so, unconsciously spending an absorbent amount of time focusing on building new business through cold marketing and forgetting about where most of our business actually comes in through — our past clients.

If you find yourself experiencing a business slow - down, take some time to think about other ways to occupy yourself during the slow time.

Rental income represents about 20 percent of my company's overall revenue, which has helped a lot as the real estate business slowed.»

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.