Sentences with phrase «agent market like»

Then the Padres approached the international free agent market like they were the first ones to the grocery store after the asteroid hit, tossing every toolsy international player into the shopping cart, costs be damned.

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Agents also said the change could spur some innovation in the disability income market and one area companies may push further into is to bundle disability insurance with other forms of coverage like long - term care in a hybrid policy.

To address this, Taobao has been helping overseas small businesses learn about opportunities available to them in the China market through events like Gateway, or enlisting the help of local agents to connect brands from the U.S., Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand with China distributors.

However, when you find a quality agent you now have a master negotiator and someone who knows the market like the back of their hand.

(It also tends to gloss over the hard work of real people, like agents, editors, sales reps, marketing people, designers, and assistants whose gifts and creative energy make a lot of what we create possible.

Unfortunately, most pre-workout supplements currently available on the market are loaded up with artificial additives like sweeteners, flavoring, preservatives, anti-caking agents and plain old fillers.

Rasmus accepting the qualifying offer might have taken the Astros entirely out of the free agent market, but it's not like they had gaping holes around the roster.

Kobe has said he will test the free - agent market this summer while suggesting, from the other side of his mouth, that he'd also like to re-sign with the Lakers.

The Astros won't pay him nearly as much as Trout during that time, which means they can keep Dallas Keuchel, or do things like make qualifying offers to Colby Rasmus, or break the free agent market when they feel the time is appropriate.

Unlike the Panthers, who in 1995 and»96 were able to sign free agents like linebackers Lamar Lathon and Kevin Greene because the league was still learning the ins and outs of free agency, Houston has had very little to choose from in the market.

Gonzalez would further crowd the outfield market, as Justin Upton and Yoenis Cespedes are still free agents even though we're in mid-January, as are secondary options like Dexter Fowler.

Hendricks says that if there's an open free - agent market — and he, like a lot of other baseball folks, didn't know last week if there would be — Smith should at least hear from Boston, California and Oakland, teams that need closers.

After a free agent market that didn't materialize to his liking, outfielder Jose Bautista has returned to the Toronto Blue Jays, agreeing to terms on a one - year deal with a mutual option for 2018, according to Ken Rosenthal.

Yi's side has been just as adamant: His agent Dan Fegan insists that Yi won't play for Milwaukee and wants him dealt to a larger market, like the Bay Area or Chicago.

They will be able to be players in the free agent market next year the likes they haven't been for several years now.

These agents are like the hyenas that crashed wall street, they just overheat the market.

Personally, I think he (or his agent more like) are holding out to see A, what the club value his services at and B, what the club do in the market.

While this won't impact the markets for elite talent like Bryce Harper, a free agent a year from now, it has seen the markets for good - to - great players like Eric Hosmer dry up.

The market was not kind to Green and fellow restricted free - agent big men like Nerlens Noel, Mason Plumlee, Nikola Mirotic, and Alex Len, all of whom sat on the market until August and September.

When there was a bounty of starters on the free agent market — Johnny Cueto, David Price, Zack Greinke, Jeff Samardzija — it looked like the Tigers nabbed the best mix of risk vs. reward, paying less for Zimmermann than the Giants paid for Cueto, which meant paying half the price of a... Price.

John Clark, senior vice president for the John Buck Co., the marketing agent for Prairie Stone Business Park, said having the sports and wellness center on site is another asset like a day - care center, restaurants and a hotel in attracting potential corporate tenants.

Because real estate agents know the real estate market like the back of their hand, they can easily find you a purchaser or assist you offer your home for an excellent cost and without having to wait for months.

Just like in the Russian brides» industry everybody knows what is going on at the «paid chat» sites and how local «agents» manage to attract the constant stream of stunning single women but won't talk abut it, the general dating market keeps mum about sex bots that are used to lure people in.

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The scores, along with an accompanying number ranking schools across the state from 1 10, were promoted by web sites like GreatSchools.org, and became a marketing tool for real estate agents to sell houses in neighborhoods with «good» schools.

That talented agents like talented editors will not only market books creatively and aggressively, but will help authors make their work the best it can possibly be.

Agents will have to became Writers Scouts, do their own research rather that being the writers search for the right Agent, and Publishers should start thinking as professional football teams, making their authors the best, supporting and coaching them to become even better, and marketing their authors like mad.

If you say that you've written something like that to book agents, they're going to think one of two things: 1) You haven't done enough competitive research; or 2) There isn't a market for your book.

Some literary agents will actually say things like, «I don't think there's a big market for your book and I don't think we'll get a good advance.

The one thing I wasn't prepared for was agents telling me how much they liked my mystery - thriller Tainted Souls, but how it didn't really matter because the publishing market sucked.

I had a similar response from a publisher to my agent — I really liked it but feel that it's too light a treatment for today's market.

For the corruption, there is also good in traditional publishing and many authors do like the assistance of an agent / publisher / marketing team.

If an agent isn't seeing what you are seeing or there is genuinely a place in the market, just not big enough to profit a Traditional Publisher, then Self Publishing sounds like perhaps the only option — best of luck

Choice was there was a compelling reason for the author to get a book to market, like a time constraint or a deadline in terms of a national appearance, and if that's the case the agents need to know that.

Editors and agents might have liked the manuscript but the publishing house sales and marketing people said they could not sell enough to make it work.

Similarly, like Sarah Hutchison commented to this article, I had some great feedback from several agents about my novel but the general consensus was, my novel «The First Sense» was not commercial enough for them to market in today's competitive publishing industry (its genre is future fiction / sci - fi).

The panel includes Kenneth Atchity who is an author, Hollywood producer, literary manager, editor, speaker, writing and career coach, columnist, book reviewer, and brand consultant, New York Times Best - selling author Heather Graham, Orna Ross, a former literary agent and founder of the Alliance for Independent Authors, as well as BooksGoSocial founder Laurence O'Bryan alongside a host of acclaimed authors, writing professors and publishing insiders to discuss topics like the Critical Elements of Storytelling, the Evolving Business of Publishing, and the all - important Book Marketing Secrets.

It is possible to ask the agents or acquisition editors questions that can help steer your work toward success such as: will my work sell in today's market, what is the agent - writer relationship really like, or ask their opinion on the first page of your manuscript.

It just seemed like I was going to have to surrender all my control, and dance like a trained chimp to the beat of countless editors, agents, marketing consultants, etc. while making peanuts, if that.

Independent authors — without agents, publishing deals, or marketing dollars — face radically different pricing concerns than traditional publishers and publishing startups like Byliner and The Domino Project.

The message is clear: If your dream is a traditional book deal, you've got to go in through an agent, it helps if you're a fabulous unknown, and you'd better be prepared to self - market like there's no tomorrow.

Unless the aggregators intend to take over the «gatekeepers of literary culture» role that publishers and agents play or to restrict access by publisher size, the arrival of these aggregators will do little to diminish the capability of indie authors to distribute their work (outside of things like marketing budgets etc..)

The promise of a 70 % cut, publishers like Open Road and Rosetta Books that offer 50 %, Literary Agents that want to try selling ebooks themselves — there's an endless stream of quality books about to flood the market.

When Kathryn Stockett submitted her manuscript, The Help, she was almost giddy when her first few rejections came in from agents — remarks like, «It didn't sustain my interest,» to «There is no market for this kind of tiring writing,» were the norm.

@Jason I write something similar, upmarket fantasy or magical realism that has a lot of spirituality (it's Christian, but the current Christian market wouldn't like it), and this has made it tricky to find an agent and publisher because of the reasons you listed.

Some markets really require a high degree of specialization — science fiction, for instance, or young adult — and an agent who has never represented a book like yours before may not have the right contacts to be effective — even if that agent has a strong track record in other markets.

Some of the topics they'd like guest bloggers to cover include writing craft, marketing, social networking, inspiration, creative writing, and finding an agent.

As authors, we get wrapped up in our world of writing and its good to know what the process looks like once the marketing begins, first with the agent, then the publisher.

Things are really really stagnant in the US market now, and agents do these crazy things like demand that you send them stuff but not send it to anyone else for the next X number of months.

In the past, agents have rejected many books, not because they didn't LIKE the book or the author's voice, but because they knew the market for that book simply didn't exist.