Sentences with phrase «better than other businesses»

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As a business owner, I find that there are few things more valuable than being compared to what other businesses are doing so that I can learn from and even copy their best practices.

How to Build Better Business Relationships: Listen More Than You Talk «We all want to extol our strengths, our virtues in hopes of impressing others and, ultimately, getting more business,» says Alisa Cohn, an executivBusiness Relationships: Listen More Than You Talk «We all want to extol our strengths, our virtues in hopes of impressing others and, ultimately, getting more business,» says Alisa Cohn, an executivbusiness,» says Alisa Cohn, an executive coach.

«It seems like you are no longer interested in talking about business and it seems like getting to know each other better may mean something different to me than it does to you.

Some states are definitely better than others when it comes to running a small business.

Social media can work better for some businesses than others.

If he wants to hire people, he will need to persuade Mayer that spending on his business is a better use of corporate resources than on other Yahoo businesses that generate actual revenues and profits.

That's because of the same reason SpaceX's other rockets are already revolutionizing the business of getting to space — it's a lot cheaper to reuse the rocket boosters that propel something out of Earth's gravity well than to use new ones every time.

One isn't necessarily better than the other, but a more pure - play private equity business could perform differently than one with a more diversified earnings base.

There are a number of different people and resources that are able to help you value your business, and some are better than others.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Builders like you make much better stories than the stewards of Goldman Sachs, Walmart, and other traditional business darlings.

To test your idea, look at other businesses in your industry to see if your side hustle is better than or different from what's already being done.

Over the years, Virgin has competed well in markets where incumbents do business in a particular way for no other reason than «that's the way we've always done it.»

But some clients are better fits than others and now businesses can be more discerning of the projects accepted.

Other schools with better - than - expected numbers include UC - Berkeley's Haas School and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

The best CEO candidates will only want to join if they believe that the board is truly independent, without any agenda other than the long - term success of the business.

«The main result of this analysis is that the best clients of the aware brokers are significantly more likely than other clients to sell the stocks that the liquidating manager is offloading during the fire sale,» wrote Marco Di Maggio, assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

«It's much better than a binder,» says Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy, a Vienna, Va., company that develops business intelligence software for the iPad and other devices.

Although they were recorded in Rockwell's books as business expenses, «some of the trips appeared to have no direct component other than the development of customer good will,» alleged the SEC.

For him and countless other ex-marines, there is no better preparation for the rigors of running a business than the intense training of the U.S. Marine Corps.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

It comes down to what every scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.

«This business is all about trying to divine which companies are doing better than we think, so that we can pick the stocks that have the most potential to outperform the rest of the market and throw away the others,» the «Mad Money» host said.

Figuring out why states fared poorly in America's Top States For Business 2008 takes a bit less work than determining why others did well.

Whenever we find ourselves in that depressing little place, when things are not going right and we start to feel that every other business in the universe is so much better than ours, think again.

While the Bronfman family dramas have been wellcovered in other books and in the Canadian press — this magazine is among the book's sources — Goodman understands the music business better than any of the family's other chroniclers.

So whilst it may seem that the grass is greener and every other business on the planet is better, easier and more successful than yours, it might just be time for a rethink.

It's great to understand every aspect of your business, but be realistic — there are others who can do certain things a lot better than you.

Unless you're among the Warren Buffetts and Usain Bolts of the world at the very pinnacle of the global pyramid of achievement, no matter how much you and your business flourish, they'll always be others out there doing better than you.

The key feature of the solo 401 (k) that makes it better than the other plans available to self - employed people is: you can contribute up to 100 % of the first $ 17,000 your business makes.

For most self - employed people (including employees who get a W - 2 from their boss but also run a business on the side), however, the individual 401 (k) is better than other plans like the SEP IRA or Keogh.

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

While APRs start higher than at other lenders, Kabbage has no minimum credit score requirements to apply, so it can be a good source of funding for small business owners with poor to fair credit.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

I consider each a good business, some better than others.

According to the Boston - based trading platform Quantodian, funding female - led businesses makes economic sense as those companies often perform better than others.

Give your new enterprise the best chance of success with these top business tips, the best advice I've collated from other entrepreneurs and developed from my own experience of more than 20 years of having «been there and done that» as a small business person.

If your track record reflects more current accounts than negative accounts with utilities, business credit cards, banks, suppliers, and other creditors, your profile will look better than if there are a lot of late payments or defaults.

By comparing survival rates in various Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), we find regions that may fare far better in business survival than others.

While not insignificant, such investments constitute a much better outcome than fully writing off their business, dealing with leasing issues, and managing all the other negative consequences of closing shop.

Some brokers are absolutely better than others, just the same as any type of business.

Some business funding solutions are better suited for certain expenses than others.

The chipmaker sports a 4.2 % yield, better than nearly any other tech company, and its historically fat profit margins are a sign of the success of the business.

Purdy said digital self - service tools are faring better in Canada than Applied's other markets because more personal lines business is written through the broker channel in Canada.

Protection from inexperienced or subpar financial services providers: Let's face it: some people are just better at their jobs than others, and, when it comes to financial services, there's a lot riding on the people who you are working with to keep your business processes running smoothly.

Your initial email should include a brief overview of the business, telling us in no more than one page about: - Your technology, any IP, and why it's better than the competition - Traction so far / planned route to market and your business model - Team - Funding until now, how much you're raising and at what valuation - Whether you envisage further funding rounds being necessary in the future You can include links to a business plan or any other documents with the email if you wish.

When a well - run business applies its vast resources, expertise, and management talent to problems that it understands and in which it has a stake, it can have a greater impact on social good than any other institution or philanthropic organization.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

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Calgary Economic Development's Mandate The Rise of Shared Value and Four Other Trends in CSR - Forbes There couldn't have been a better way to approach the end of 2011 than at the ambitious and cheerful Net Impact conference followed by Business for Social Responsibility's (BSR) annual conference.