Start - ups are building
businesses around every product traditionally offered by large financial institutions, from lending to mortgages, payments to investing.
Keehn founded Sew Be It Embroidery, based in Santa Rosa, Calif., in 1996 and has built
his businesses around product quality and a commitment to meet deadlines.
Enthusiastic and energetic product and service strategy expert with leadership skills, creativity and knowledge to grow
a business around its products or services.
Not exact matches
Indeed, Aeryon is finding services springing up
around its
products to serve various markets, such as Integrated Information Systems, a Nanaimo, B.C., aerial imaging
business that uses Aeryon drones.
Take care of the «
business side» of things — planning
products, sales, customer service, marketing — and build your financial modelling
around that.
It's such a long list, really, that it often takes Benioff a while to get
around to discussing revenues and
products and
business strategy.
For example, if everyone
around you described your
business with the words «excellence, quality, wonderful customer service, high integrity, great people, best
products, speedy follow - up» and so on, would this be helpful to you?
And as is so often the case with luxury goods, the
business around it is far less savoury than the
product.
Entrepreneurs here see a
business opportunity to grow locally, reinventing the way the land is used, while creating
products made from an all
around sustainable
business model.
For example, the first short - term goal might be to figure out the startup's
business model, the next might be to get customers to use or pay for the
product, and the third to expand success from one market to five
around the world.
Spear, senior vice president of operations for Quadrem, a Plano, Texas - based online marketplace for buyers and suppliers of
products and services used in the mining industry, was in Rustenburg in late 2003 to convince local
businesses to subscribe to Quadrem's service, which would allow them to bid online for purchase requests from buyers
around the world.
Running a
business is complicated, and starting a new
business around a new
product is more so.
Without a clear
business purpose, such as developing a
product launch strategy or engaging in succession planning, Weiss says retreats tend to «descend into sitting
around watching the boss play cards» — or worse.
«They should shop
around for the program that best suits their needs,» advises Craig Card, vice president of small -
business products and services for Foster City, California - based Visa USA.
Most every small
business can benefit from some online tracking of its name and
product mentions
around the Web and in social networks, but picking the right service can be tricky.
Trackle is one of a new crop of online services that helps you «listen» for keyword mentions on social networks and
around the Web, and will send an alert when someone mentions your
business or
product — or your competitor.
Localizing
business has been the key to IFF's global success, the CEO said, as IFF develops specific
products for different markets at 34 creative centers
around the world.
For many
businesses, a Web site can be a virtual «storefront» that enables the company to sell
products and services to customers and clients
around the world at a relatively small price.
Once you've completed these steps — you've created an innovative, unequalled
product or service, and through the kindness and helpfulness of your employees, you are winning new loyal customers every day — stop and take a look
around: you just built a thriving
business.
But with monthlong high - tech -
product life cycles, just - in - time manufacturing operations, and overnight global currency crashes, the
business world might just be coming
around to the marines» point of view.
This reduction in force is consistent with an overall turn -
around program that began a year ago to correct regulatory compliance issues, reset our culture and values, increase operational efficiency, and introduce a new SaaS
product and
business model.
I am looking forward to seeing how this inclusive mindset continues to grow and play out across leadership and
business strategy — especially as we look into the new year toward Davos, which will focus on strengthening global cooperation and inclusivity across regions and industries, as well as how organizations communicate differently with customers to empower those
around them to be agents of the change, not merely
products of it.
From starting his
business from a small salon in London's Bond Street, Sassoon talks about how he revolutionised the hair industry in the 1960s, how he grew his global hair empire and turned his name into a multi-million dollar global brand with salons, a hugely successful
product line and academies
around the world.
That's rare enough, but Facebook has done that while building a wildly profitable and fast - growing
business around its namesake
product.
With that in mind, the question for your
business is: «What feedback loop can you build into your
product or service to give people useful data
around their daily activities and make a difference in their lives?»
The same way communities must be built for the purpose of congregation,
businesses also need to build communities
around services and
products.
Take the time to really understand the numbers
around your
business, industry, market, customers,
product, COGS, and operations so you can know exactly what you need to do to be successful and explain that to investors.
Around the same time, McGee announced a pullback in The Hartford's annuities
business: allowing the portfolio to «runoff» (meaning that the insurer would service and pay benefits for existing annuity holders), but ending the sale of new
products.
I'm going home from the conference to clear my wall and redo my plan
around a
business model, not a
product.»
In
business, Cortana Intelligence Suite allows our customers to take advantage of research and Bing innovations to create
products that can enhance security, gauge people's emotional state and recognize the world
around us.
«The thing that drives the
business is fundamentally the engagement
around the
products,» Spiegel said.
We take the same approach when our small
business customers face difficulties: we do not permit delinquent or over-burdened borrowers to roll - over into a new loan, and we do not offer loan
products built
around late fees and penalties.
Part One — The vast opportunities available to you; an overview of the 7 steps to get into the market; a method to help you decide whether you want to create a
business around your invention or sell to a company; a guide to why
products fail and succeed; and easy - to - follow market research techniques.
Wikipedia also defines it as: «A startup company (startup or start - up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast - growing
business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable
business model
around an innovative
product, service, process or a platform.
In fact, we recently conducted a survey that found 90 percent of female customers in the US would go out of their way to purchase
products from women, believing they would offer higher quality,» stated MiKaela Wardlaw Lemmon, senior director of Women's Economic Empowerment at Walmart «We hope our collaboration with Women's
Business Enterprise National Council and WEConnect International will make customers
around the world more aware of great
products from women - owned
businesses, and help these women continue to grow their
businesses.»
eBay has a fast - growing cross-border trade (CBT) export
business in Japan that enables thousands of Japanese
businesses to sell their
products to eBay's 170 million active buyers
around the world.
At its most basic, a franchise
business is an operation where the services or
products have been tested regionally, nationally, and even
around the world — marketing, selling, in - house operations, etc. — have been streamlined to offer potential franchise owners the most «turn key»
business opportunity available.
Investors can't bank on innovation revolutionizing the
business of either Procter & Gamble or Johnson & Johnson, but they can be reasonably confident that these industry leaders will be
around — and booking higher sales and profits — decades into the future given that they make so many
products that millions of people
around the world use every day.
So I was part of the Center of Excellence team and our focus was
around how could we drive social media strategically into the
business, as effective tool across HR, Sales,
Product groups etc..
Google and Amazon are orienting their entire
businesses around AI as a strategic asset that delivers new
products, features and capabilities.
Why she does is not my
business, but
products for feminine hygiene have been
around for as long as unwanted facial hair has because women do try to take some pride in their appearance.
«Flavors come and go, but the bulk of our
business centers
around the demand for the consistent, high quality and taste of our pure pretzel
products.»
Yet fast forward five years and somehow I'm running a team of seventy people, overseeing one of the fastest growing
product business and operating three cafes, as well as running a social media platform that reaches
around twelve million people a week and writing a series of books that have been published in over twenty languages.
When the company first started producing these
products, there were no other
businesses around to copy.
The department created the award to honor agriculture
businesses that successfully export N.C. food
products around the world.
The department created the award to honor agriculture
businesses that successfully export North Carolina food
products around the world.
At the Expert Stage, visitors can meet industry experts from
around the world, and get practical insights on the best
products, systems and solutions for their
business.
Not only is the tortilla a part of Guerra's Latino heritage, it is the main
product his family has built their
business around for the last 65 years.
The company also opened a New England division
around that same time, and within a few years the operation had grown to have 15
product lines and
business in eight states.
The Slap Ya Mama brand of Cajun
products takes that notion even further — the origins of its
business involve rolling a large pickle jar
around on the kitchen floor.