Sentences with phrase «by getting the services»

But it also serves an incredibly important role as an enabler and incubator of innovation and positive forward momentum for society as a whole, which is something that simply will not continue if those lone individuals become disadvantaged by getting their services blocked, slowed or effectively taxed by usage limits.

If you are serious about having your manuscript published, one of the best ways to go about it is by getting the services of a literary agent.

Not exact matches

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

With shows now getting a long afterlife on the internet, and other shows getting picked up by streaming services after cancellation, it is now harder than ever to define a television hit.

Just the other day the United States Postal Service made headlines by getting into the grocery delivery business.

The gear (goods) that went into the phone probably were manufactured by various subcontractors, requiring a team of supply - chain managers (service) and logistics providers (service) to get the final product to market.

On Twitter, accounts that presented themselves as Bitconnect customer support but appeared to have been set up only after the service shut down, such as @BitconnectStaff and @BitConnectExch, seemed to prey on users desperate to get their money off the platform by suggesting they send all their cryptocurrency to a separate digital wallet address.

Some companies get stuck on the number of people who stop by the booth, instead of looking at whether they are qualified buyers of your goods and services.

Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

If those services get hacked, as was the case with Ashley Madison, or purchased by other companies, customer information ends up in the hands of different people and organizations — from the annoying to the downright nefarious,» Rodriguez reported in November.

By contrast, 40 percent of those who would like to export said they don't have goods or services that are exportable; a slightly smaller percentage said they didn't know much about exporting, and about a quarter said they would worry too much about getting paid.

If you're having a hard time with customer service, try to get a better understanding of the situation by listening to customer feedback.

Alex Garcia and Matt Buchan, the owners of Emerson salon hit it off with an aggressive social media campaign on Twitter, Facebook and other media by promoting their services, linking their social profiles with their websites and adding a button through which users can easily book the appointment to get their hairs cut.

You will be shocked to learn that a study commissioned by Internet radio service Pandora found that annoying users with increased amounts of advertising will push some to pay for an ad - free subscription, but not enough to make up for the majority who get annoyed and just tune out.

Instead of yelling at the guy who cut you off or getting stuck in a blocked - in parking spot, General Motors China says it has a solution: It's called DiDi Plate, and it lets Android users text any car owner by scanning their license plate with their phone's camera and sending it to a cloud ID service.

This meant that a single promotional campaign for the mRelief app (which was supported by all the concerned agencies and city services) could get the word out at a fraction of the cost that each organization or department would have to spend — assuming they had the money to do so.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc..By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc..by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Some scams, advertised online or by e-mail, offer to pay you $ 1,000 to act as a secret shopper, in which you get paid to observe the customer service performance of major retailers.

Code Eight, the new Walmart subsidiary run by Rent the Runway co-founder Jennifer Fleiss, is testing a personal shopping service that allows customers to get product recommendations and make purchases using text messaging.

And media outlets reported last week that Amazon is contemplating adding a new delivery service, called Seller Flex, to its own fulfillment options, allowing its merchants to get their goods delivered by Amazon from their own warehouses.

«TalkLocal is using a mobile - only approach where they will try to get a call by a service provider within a set period of time.

Startups to watch: Anchored by internet 1.0 titans like image - sharing service Photobucket, the scene got its start with a high concentration of work / play - oriented software developers working at facilities such as the University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The opportunity arises because the big four U.S. wireless carriers, led initially by T - Mobile, have been weaning their customers off of subsidized phones and trying to get everyone to pay for phones in full — in return for somewhat lower monthly service charges.

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

A third said Apple's service wasn't properly configured for media companies to get analytical data that could be used by services such as comScore, which is crucial for advertising.

The service got its start by offering American audiences a way to stream international soccer.

Better known as a home for looping GIFs, the social blogging service, owned by ailing tech giant Yahoo, is clearly playing a bit of catch - up by getting onboard with what its bigger competitors have tabbed as the Next Big Thing.

Co-founded by Peter Sunde, who also co-founded the notorious Pirate Bay file - sharing site, it's a «social payment service» that lets people donate a fixed amount each month that then gets split up between the online services they want to support — kind of like a tip jar.

Brexit Secretary David Davis tried to get that second stage started by calling for an ambitious deal that would encompass services as well as goods.

By providing this service, miners get rewarded with digital tokens.

Overnight shipping and other express delivery services charge a premium to get your post delivered without delay but before using them, ask yourself if the recipient really needs the letter or parcel by the following day.

One of the greatest myths about personal or business success is that eventually your business, personal abilities, products or services will get discovered and be embraced by the masses that will beat a path to your door to buy what you are selling.

Under TREB's current rules, real estate agents and brokers can access this information through the Multiple Listing Service and turn it over by hand, e-mail or fax to their clients (the clients can't get it themselves because it's not available on Realtor.ca, the public version of MLS).

In Michigan, the Michigan Pathways to Better Health (MPBH) program, implemented by the Michigan Public Health Institute and the Michigan Department of Community Health, is using tablet - based checklists to collect demographic information in communities with the greatest health needs and assess behavioral health, and social service factors impacting each patient to get a fuller picture of social determinants of health.

By reading their reviews, especially negative ones, it's possible to get a sense for how your products and services stack up to theirs and see if their customers have similar complaints.

Netflix sells a service that competes with the TV shows and movies offered by cable Internet providers, and who can forget the warm welcome it got in Canada, in the form of certain Internet providers instantly lowering customers» monthly download limits when the company announced its northward expansion.

According to Alexandre Lebrun of Facebook's artificial intelligence division, quoted by Business Insider, «The better we get [at artificial intelligence], the less time you spend talking to customer service.

But by the way, do you mind if Google keeps your number around so you can get alerts on «topics that interest you» and future, unspecified «Google Mobile services»?

«Our world is flooded by a plethora of choice, where you look for a product and get so many items, and part of [this] is making it easier and more convenient,» she says of the services she plans to build.

San Francisco - based Breeze, founded this year, offers customers week - by - week access to vehicles they can use to support jobs as drivers for Uber, Lyft and other sharing - economy platforms; co-founder Jeffrey Pang describes the service as an «equalizer» for those who want to get in on the action but don't have cars of their own.

The majority of companies don't know which of their products and services are most valued by the people who pay for them — here's how to get it right.

The startup is Austin - based Main Street Hub, or MSH — its social -, Web -, and email - marketing service claims to help «merchants get more customers and keep them coming back by spreading word of mouth, extending their customer service, managing their online reputation, and leveraging Main Street Hub's merchant network.»

For example, one person (who, like the others I spoke with, preferred not to share his name for this article) told me he offered to help protesters get out their message in English by providing translation services.

By doing so, managers get the direct feedback they need to help direct new products and services and customers start to get a sense that someone cares.

But this service's multibillion - dollar annual outlay for new programming necessitates another challenge: helping each program get discovered by the subscribers most likely to enjoy it.

Litle — active in direct marketing and financial services since the 1960s — is also responsible for credit card rules that let customers buy on installment plans and the system by which mass mailers get discounts if they presort their missives.

Companies like Rent the Runway, the online rental service founded and run by women, had equal pay practices from the get - go when it launched in 2009.

Get a Better Deal on Phone Services Increasing numbers of people are saving money by using voice over internet protocol (VoIP), such as Skype.

Sceptics, however, note that Amazon (AMZN) is also investing heavily in new content for its Amazon Prime Video service, and that it has far deeper pockets than Netflix will ever have, unless the latter gets acquired by someone like Apple or Disney.