Sentences with phrase «almost lost sale»

Last month I almost lost sale on a large painting, and admittedly it was my fault.

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The upscale market's stock lost almost half its value since peaking in 2013 and same - store sales have fallen over the last 18 months, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

He was losing money almost every month because the reps weren't making enough new sales to replace the corporate contracts that had ended.

Humphrey's research has shown that owners almost never lose money on the sale of a professional sports team.

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He did similar when Cahill was up for sale and we lost him to Chelsea, so Wenger takes the credit for finding Holding but almost lost him trying to be a clever arse.

But like I've been saying for the longest, it makes no sense for MS to go head to head with Sony in the console race, because they almost always on the losing side (the 360 lost in overall sales, but it was a win for MS and marketing share.

5 Dec: Bloomberg: Louise Downing: Marine Power May Suffer More Casualties After Siemens Tidal Sale The downfall of two leading marine - energy developers is damping hope that the emerging industry, which has already lost almost $ 1 billion, will ever get the technology to market... Pelamis Wave Power Ltd., once a client of EON SE, Germany's biggest utility, said last month it had run out of money.

Apple and Logitech have almost surely lost sales because of this issue, and — thanks to both companies ignoring the issue outside of the occasional tweet until it was fixed — probably irked some potentially loyal customers, too.

The prices they paid and softening rents from the short sales and foreclosures in the area have made them almost lose money now.