Sentences with phrase «book of business in»

They sold their St. Paul book of business in 2001 so that they could focus on adding more franchises within their region.

Or if you're in sales, do you have an established book of business in this area?

And in deference to one early post suggesting that not many people buy term insurance, term insurance sales have increased as a percentage of most insurers» total book of business in the past 10 - 20 years.

We have acted in commercial disputes concerning the supply of goods (O'Sullivan v Aggregate Industries UK Ltd,) and the sale of a book of business in the insurance broking industry (Besso v Bennett Gould and Partners, forthcoming Commercial Court trial).

«Thanks to The Ackert Advisory, I doubled my book of business in less than a year.

Someone with a book of business in the same practice area and same location or an individual who previously worked for you as a clerk are good examples of these types of people.

I have built a decent book of business in freelance consulting that I hope to continue to build and earn additional income from.

As Rosser remembers it, her father, Forest Jenkins, who started Triad, was as excited as other local contractors to get a decent book of business in 1989, when Trump set to work building the Taj Mahal casino.

In the end, golf cart insurance fills a gap presented by the larger insurance companies that do not normally write books of business in this filed.

The Federal Housing Administration is at a critical crossroads, but with the best performing books of business in its 80 - year history, FHA is prepared for the future.

SAN FRANCISCO (November 8, 2013)-- The Federal Housing Administration is at a critical crossroads, but with the best performing books of business in its 80 - year history, FHA is prepared for the future.

Not exact matches

In his book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, business coach and consultant Dan Kennedy reveals the steps behind making the most of your frantic, time - pressured days so you can turn time into money.

The book not only prepares the reader in managing his or her mindset relative to ups, downs, pleasures, and horrors of owning a business, it also helps one develop the skills in identifying potential and current employees whose attitudes and outlooks can bring great value to a growing organization.

It reminded me of the «blowing your customers up» mentality in perhaps one of the best business books ever written — Liar's Poker — where bond traders celebrated when they bankrupted their first customer.

Lazaridis may have been applying the lessons of a book called The Innovator's Dilemma, published in 1997 by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.

The business world can be brutal I don't care what you learned in school, you'll come across so many situations you can't learn in a text book written in 1985 (Not a fan of college, can you tell:)-RRB- Be prepared to work 7 days a week.

With varying principles in the world, it's only a question of WHEN a business owner will go through a slump, and having read Tony's book they will know how to personally overcome the challenges of their business because they understand that they are unlimited and unbound!

I don't have a lot of time in between my business and school to pick up and read physical books.

While the business of booking trips through a traditional agency will likely never return to pre-internet levels, there is a growing understanding among travelers that calling an old - school agent could be worthwhile in certain cases.

In their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business owneIn their book Start Your Own Business, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a businesBusiness, the staff of Entrepreneur Media Inc. guides you through the critical steps to starting your business, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a businesbusiness, then supports you in surviving the first three years as a business ownein surviving the first three years as a businessbusiness owner.

It is the sequel to his first book, 2 Billion Under 20, which came out in 2015 and became the # 1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book Awabook, 2 Billion Under 20, which came out in 2015 and became the # 1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book AwaBook of 2015 according to the Axiom Business Book AwaBook Awards.

In the book, they reflect deeply on the evolving nature of the wine industry and how technology and the «tug - of - war between localism and tourism» have changed the business.

The latest attempt came on Saturday, when an article ran in The Wall Street Journal to promote a new book, Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business, by Robert D. Atkinson and Michael Lind.

Accounting technology has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, and using this sophisticated software business owners and managers can automate and balance their books without delving into the complicated world of accounting.

A thought - provoking post on Business Insider gathers evidence from Newport's book and elsewhere that the Microsoft founder was — in his youth at least — a true master of deep work.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturIn the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturin the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of Promise, described in his book, The Promise of a Pencil, what it feels like when business people appear to lose interest in him after he says he has a non-profit.

-- Mike Zivin, co-founder and CEO of Whittl, an online appointment booking platform for neighborhood businesses, which recently raised a $ 3.3 million Series A round with backing from GrubHub co-founder Mike Evans, as well as GrubHub's first VC, Origin Ventures in Chicago.

Answer: Since the groundbreaking book The Socratic Method to Build Pipeline was first published by Microsoftus Excellis in 368 BC, we've seen a wealth of content built to «win more business.»

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

The aspect of the book that captured me was that all of the resources provided in the book are also applicable to marketing a business, any business.

This book is about all of the mistakes I've made in business, «132 lessons learned».

In her book, Put Your Intuition to Work, intuition expert Lynn Robinson explains that some of the greatest business leaders rely on their intuition to make important decisions.

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionIn their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionin Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

Step two couldn't be simpler, and as Business Insider pointed out in its write - up of Boothman's book, «research also suggests that smiling when you meet someone in a happy context is a useful way to get them to remember you.»

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

In this age of DIY internet booking, small businesses may question the need for professional travel planners.

But in the day - to - day crush of getting things done, most business owners and managers let their attention drift away from customers, according to Joseph Callaway, co-author with his wife JoAnn of the bestselling book «Clients First.»

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

Goldman: Aside from Mission in a Bottle: The Honest Guide to Doing Business Differently — and Succeeding, the book I wrote with my Honest Tea co-founder, I would encourage founders to read Jack London's The Call of the Wild.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

The book argues that most of us are not as creative as we have the potential to be and, thankfully for the time starved business owner, living up to our full creative potential doesn't necessarily mean locking yourself in a practice room for around a decade.

Hundreds of online articles and published books claim to know the secret of success in business, but for the most part, they boil down to the same major points.

Another important principle, articulated by Michael Armstrong in his book A Handbook of Human Resource Management, is that business success «is most likely to be achieved if the personnel policies and procedures of the enterprise are closely linked with, and make a major contribution to, the achievement of corporate objectives and strategic plans.»

Accenture is an example of what naming guru Alex Frankel describes in his book Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business as «the synthetic, just - add - water (and a lot of advertising dollars), umbrella name.»

When I came up with the idea for my first book, 101 Ways to Market Your Business, I spoke to a number of people in marketing about it.

«Boeing's book of business wasn't hurt by a little wage inflation or modestly rising interest rates or margin calls in the financial markets.»

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker ScholaIn my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholain 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.