Key Highlight: • Orchestrated the development of a curved staircase that could be produced in - house and delivered to the homes complete, saving
company money and time.
Always find ways to save
the company money and time in the production process.
Not exact matches
In a
time when tech
companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests —
and their
money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.
Freelance work can allow them to get real world experience
and earn some
money until they land a full -
time job, he said, although relying solely on that type of employment can also mean there's a lack of corporate identity — for the
company as well as for the freelancers themselves.
The best
time to ask for more
money is when you're happy with your job
and are demonstrating value to the
company.
Despite that, almost every insurance
company I talked to was spending an incredible amount of
time and money trying to get people to think about their insurance
company more often.
Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments
and companies get a sum of
money today
and pay interest on it over
time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»
Where ever the extra
time and money is directed, if it improves your website, it is
time and money well spent over the long term because it will give your
company a more professional appearance online.
Yes, the certification process will cost you some
money and take some
time, but certified financials increase the value of the
company.
The result: something like half of new hires fail within 18 months, costing
companies boatloads of wasted
time and money.
Long before they've exhausted the growth possibilities of their first
company, they decide to start another one in a totally unrelated business they know nothing about,
and they end up spending
time and money on it that should be put into building their original business instead.
It's about aligning your marketing team's resources —
time,
money, tools,
and activities — on a best - fit set of
companies you want to do business with.
Kevin O'Leary: O'Leary will do a deal «if he knows the
company can scale to a certain amount,
and he can get all his
money back in a certain amount of
time.
Most
companies spend a lot of
time —
and money — thinking about customer acquisition.
Instead of investing
time and money into training a separate customer care team,
companies can allocate their human resources to other, more important tasks, leaving their chatbot to provide assistance to vendors, suppliers, as well as third parties.
Here's why: Forrester Research states that less than 1 % of leads ever generate revenue for B2B
companies, which means B2B marketers doing traditional lead gen waste 99 % of their
time, energy,
and money marketing to people who will never become customers.
Rob Rhinehart, who stepped down as the
company's CEO in late 2017, introduced the first iteration of Soylent in 2013 as part of an experiment to swap food for raw ingredients to save
time and money.
These
companies understand that the cost of hiring the wrong person is a significant waste of
money and time.
Often
companies panic when their product is used in unintended ways,
and then spend an untold amount of
time and money trying to get the «right» people to embrace it.
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....
Then I saw how Elon Musk invested his
time and money into SpaceX, Tesla,
and PayPal (all human - driven
companies that change the world).
At the same
time, says Mark McQueen, president
and CEO of VC firm Wellington Financial, the «push to reduce the amount of
money required to find out if a
company can succeed» has placed more of an onus on tech startups to prove that their products have what it takes.
We had a mission statement
and planned how much
money we personally needed to invest to get the
company running
and cash to set aside for lean
times.
He has coached the top business, athletic,
and performance leaders around the world, built dozens of hugely successful
companies and non-profits,
and continues to generously donate his
time,
money,
and talent on a massive scale.
If it were not for a competent business attorney with experience representing
companies similar to ours, we could have lost more than just
time and money.
«An important responsibility of a CFO is resource allocation — where the
company is investing its
time and money.
He adds that
companies often misread how —
and, indeed, whether — their clients use social, causing them to spend
time and money chasing business that might never materialize.
While she was working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers» real estate
company in New York City, Corcoran's boyfriend at the
time, Ray, fronted her some
money and gave her a nudge to explore real estate sales.
These are
companies that spend disproportionate amounts of
time and money on people.
In addition to the
money,
companies are also investing
time and patience into finding
and hiring great talent.
This eliminates the need for mediators
and therefore saves the
company time and money.
As for Meetup, Heiferman told the
Times the
company had broken even
and had not collected outside
money in years.
Yet the
company has developed a competitive launch vehicle in less
time and for less
money than would have seemed possible.
Assuming the integrity of the startup remains intact, any effort spent to reduce the demand for
time and / or
money, or free up more
time and / or
money to be used in other projects is ultimately beneficial to the
company.
Couple that with their new video ad products for sales
and direct response
and the fact that they're the greatest data
company of all
time for marketers
and you have some serious reasons to spend some real
money on Facebook video ads
and video content for Facebook.
Marketing a business to a large
and diverse audience may sound like a good idea, but most
companies old
and new know learn quickly that you're much better off to aim for one specific demographic
and then really focus your
time, effort,
and advertising
money on that group.
By reaching out to your network of past employees directly, you'll reduce some of the
money — up to $ 20,000 for some
companies —
and time normally needed for other more widespread recruitment solutions.
It's a tried
and true method, but it's probably costing you a bucketload of
money and creating schedule feast or famine — periods where you stress through the lean
times and run like a lunatic in the busy ones — according to a new ebook titled Breaking the
Time Barrier from online accounting
company FreshBooks.
In 2012, New York - based PE firm KPS Capital Partners made nine
times its
money by combining small brands including Labatt USA, Magic Hat
and Pyramid into a single entity
and selling the combined
company for $ 388 million.
And any
time we're squabbling over
money, let's do something good for the world, because this doesn't get the
company anywhere.»
About a fifth (21 percent) think the answer is investing more
money in IT systems,
and 13 percent say they should spend more
time planning
and researching the best solutions for the
company's needs.
Overall, the pharmaceutical industry, biotech
companies,
and medical device makers have given less
money directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign than they had to President Obama's by this
time four years ago.
But one significant impact, which can cost a
company considerable
time and money to repair, is in the area of public relations.
If they ran out of
money this
time, they would wind down the
company and sell it for liquidation.
It's a good sign that the
company is starting off with a solid revenue base, says Ainsworth,
and he has faith it will find other
money - making sources over
time.
If the purpose of all the effort
and time (
and money) you're putting into content creation is to drive sales, improve your
company's reputation
and ultimately build your business, you need a brilliant content marketing strategy to guide your efforts.
Investing your
time and money in people who truly specialize in the role your
company needs will have immense payoffs later.
They spent too much
money before checking with the target audience, which made it necessary to spend precious
time going back
and redoing aspects of the
company's website
and software to make them more customer - centric.
It can cost a
company time and money,
and kill morale
and productivity.
So many entrepreneurs start with a great idea, launch a
company and then it fizzles after a short
time when they run out of
money.