Sentences with phrase «because of hard sell»

Many review bloggers won't even look at an indie book because of hard sell tactics.

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Ideally, you want to have a business idea that's easy to sell but that will be really hard to copy because putting the concept into action requires all sorts of difficult - to replicate operations and logistics.

«Because I've made them laugh, and because they also think I've done them a favour by letting them off the hard sell, they usually give me a couple of names,» hBecause I've made them laugh, and because they also think I've done them a favour by letting them off the hard sell, they usually give me a couple of names,» hbecause they also think I've done them a favour by letting them off the hard sell, they usually give me a couple of names,» he says.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

Because of this, though, it can be hard to sell shares that you have because there aren't as many traders interested in the stock as there are with other, more valuable Because of this, though, it can be hard to sell shares that you have because there aren't as many traders interested in the stock as there are with other, more valuable because there aren't as many traders interested in the stock as there are with other, more valuable stocks.

This is against the trend, because of the gloom surrounding the fall in the British pound after Brexit, which makes it harder for wine exporters selling into the competitive UK retail market.

Thankfully I managed to get some from a world foods stall on a market for 1.99, but he said it's getting harder to get hold of cooking grade oil — probably because it's all being sold off at a premium elsewhere!

The only element of a felony assault charge that his defense might be able to argue against was intent to cause physical injury but unless they go for an incapacity defense that's going to be a hard sell to a jury because only a total retard would believe that hurling a heavy metal dolly through a glass bus window wouldn't likely result in harm to someone.

it will be a lot harder to convince them to sell now, not only because of the number of players they have lost but also because of the crazy amount of cash they are sitting on.

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

where people might take a strong dose of reassurance regarding ozil and Sanchez extending their contracts, possibly its motivated and essential because of the inflation for players that are being sold to English clubs, making it much harder to stay in the top four.

Like yesterday was as low as it gets for me as fan I didn't even care when Liverpool got 3 rd and fourth goals because we're dead our pride as fans is same as players we're just dead hurt, sad, weak and spineless then it gets better ox is going Chelsea today and now timers sanchez has put in transfer request haha when board said change they meant it change as in we're selling all players and we're going like Aston Villa laugh u mite we are rotten from top to da bottom and it will get better cause I bet by Thursday we will bring in nobody and promote young kids we mite chance van diik he's going for 60 million and by Thursday night sky sports will report arsenal came in with last min bid of 21 million for van diik it got flat out laughed at so at 1 min to 11 we came in again with bid of 27 million and add ons til 2029 its hard and it is only beginning haha ox starts at anfield and was shambles and he is sold today says a lot about wenger if that was me I'd say stay away till ur sold u little traitor thanks ox hope its worth it, loyalty me behind ahwell we still bellerin another little man and heart holding for Barca ahhhh I'm so mad we need Simeon's cum in and start bouncing heads off da canvas Jesus bring bk George graham at least we have defence??

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

As a result of its popularity, it could be hard to find because despite an impressive price tag, this diaper bag sells out fast.

Back in 2014, I noted that many House Republicans were decrying the inability of schools to sell hard - boiled eggs (banned under Smart Snacks because of their fat content) as a prime example of federal «nanny state» overreach.

Second, if a school is making millions selling pizza and fries as competitive food — and is on record as saying that it does so precisely because kids are spurning the healthier meal — then I have to believe that the percentage of hard - boiled eggs and skim milk sold as part of their overall competitive food mix is extremely low.

«Too many hard - working New Yorkers have had their lives changed forever because of the NYPD's discriminatory practice that treats simple folding knifes sold at well - known stores across this city as weapons once in the hands of black and brown people.

It's hard getting things photographed and posted before they sell out for me too, of course that's mostly because my clothes are old, lol!

July 14, 2016 • Utah has gone for every Republican presidential nominee since 1968, but this year could be different because Donald Trump is a hard sell with many of the state's Mormon voters.

Mintz - Plasse's transformation into the brutal and unforgiving Motherfucker is a harder sell, not because of his performance, but because of the character's fairly one - note nature.

Olympus Has Fallen is fun precisely because, although we suspect self - awareness behind the scenes, Butler is working so damn hard and selling the hell out of that line.

But The Perks of Being a Wallflower is not a hard sell simply because of its alien subject matter; it's a hard sell because no one in it is human.

By now, just about every electronic device capable of doing so has been infected with a three - match game of one kind or another and it's not hard to understand why, because simply put «it sells».

Part of the reason a second feature is so hard to get off the ground is because you're still trying to get your first one finished, sold, delivered, and seen.

Because of the very nature of the film (it's an extremely dialog - heavy pic with a very heavy undertone) it is somewhat of a hard sell, but this really is a great little indie worth checking out if not for the subject then for the terrific performances by Segel and Eisenberg.

The fact that director Jon Turteltaub was able to recruit such accomplished actors like De Niro, Douglas, Freeman and Kline (the latter of whom we haven't seen much of recently) only helps sell the comedy even more, because if we're going to watch four old guys make fools of themselves, you'd be hard - pressed to find a better quartet.

This is a 2002 Chevy Avalanche 4x4 truck I bought because I needed something that sat up higher then a car & I like the way they look, like all of the storage places, but I hate that I can't drive it much, it sits to high I have a hard time getting in and out of it, so I may as well sell / trade i...

This will be an amazing car, but they'll sell even less than they did of their first EVO because gas prices are so high that an EVO is hard to justify.

It's very hard to sell direct to readers because of the infrastructure needed to warehouse the books, to accept credit card transactions, to ship books to customers, and to provide customer service.

This is very hard concept for many indie writers to grasp, thus all the constant talk about promotion and price - changing because a book doesn't sell instantly on one site to some magic idea by the writer of what it should sell or what some friend's book sold.

But it's been hard to sell authors on blogging if they aren't blogging already because I didn't understand the mechanics of why blogging was such a powerful way of networking.

Hi Courtney — I am glad I got to say hi although you were sold out I found it very easy to find you because of the map (it said Courtney Milan row 35 Mardi Gras room) but it must have been much harder if everyone didn't have the map.

Brantley says our selling our bound wares is much harder because of the increasing trend to purchase goods online.

A lot of people say the market is saturated, and it's so hard to get noticed and sell books, because so many other people are publishing too.

Their ebook prices have to go up because Macmillan's overheads (like those of any big, mainstream publisher) are high and fixed, and the bills have to be paid regardless of whether Macmillan is selling ebooks or hard copies.

Partly because most of the people who are «selling» this kind of information are just looking to get their greasy hands into your pocket and relieve you of your hard earned cash...

JT: And if you have the ability — if you have the ability to sell a PDF, then go and sell the Kindle and EPUB version on your web site too because PDF will hit a certain market but I prefer, much prefer to read a Kindle version of a book on my Kindle than the PDF version of the book because of the thing that you'd mentioned earlier about the text being smaller in the PDF and it being harder to read.

Paper, because of the necessarily higher price tag, is a hard sell.

The worst part of this is that there are many authors who've done all this hard work who are presently thinking, «It sure would be nice to sell 100 books,» because they haven't gotten there yet.

Even for those who aren't mathematically inclined this still computes, because the field of candidates used to compute the «average» sales for indie authors has to include all the thousands who aren't talented writers and / or aren't really working hard at selling their books.

Granted, it's hard work — but not half as discouraging as having editors change the very tone of your book, decide that a proposal won't sell because it's not the flavor of the month, have the completed draft languish on someone's desk for months, wait five months after the book's published for a first advance, or learn that you, a prolific Canadian writer, aren't being published in Canada.

In fact, if you log onto Baen's Bar and read through the various threads, you'll see that some of those complaining about selling e-books through Amazon are more than happy to buy the hard copy versions of the books there because they can buy them at lower than cover cost.

Amazon wants to increase those sales because they come with a significantly higher margin that most of the hard goods they sell... and they don't require shipping.

Now I am afraid I may go under... No, I won't be tossing off a series in a genre that sells... It's incredibly hard to get noticed because there are [an] incredible number of new books coming out every month... I find that when I'm not on social media, I make no sales.

Eventually, I'll have starter books for free to get people on my list, which will build a fan base and keep my paid books selling enough to keep them visible (or better yet, launch really hard, get a ton of reviews quickly — which I can do because I'm building a big list — and stick in the top 1000 paid for a few months.

Barring that, we could get a bunch of early reviews from beta readers and post them in the «editorial reviews» section (one of the hardest things about selling a book on preorder is lack of reviews...) Preorders are important because on most platforms, preorder sales count the day of launch — and all the sales need to be in the same week to hit the big bestseller lists.

And they're harder to sell than novels, because of reader unfamiliarity with the form and the lack of advertisers who will accept them.

Have you ever been put - off from buying something from a salesperson because it was too much of a «hard - sell»?

That's a hard sell though, because Fidelity offers hundreds of free ETFs, no fee IRAs and accounts, and they currently offer 200 free trades for 2 years.