Sentences with phrase «cost you money by»

Insurance fraud is illegal and can cost you money by contributing to state and national insurance rate increases.

Choosing an appropriate owner for your policy could cause the beneficiaries more stress and potentially cost them money by making the death benefit taxable as a gift, at an already trying time while they are dealing with the emotional stress of losing you.

Not exact matches

Companies such as Uber and Instacart stand to save a ton of money on labor costs — up to 40 percent, according to one study — by continuing to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than as employees.

In every case a huge amount of fixed costs up front is overwhelmed by the ongoing ability to make money at scale; to put it another way, tech companies combine fixed costs with marginal revenue opportunities, such that they make more money on additional customers without any corresponding rise in costs.

If revenues grew with the overall economy, costs remained flat, and BofA avoided the steep credit losses that plagued it in the past ---- specifically by sticking with those reliable customers, Moynihan claimed, it could become a money machine.

Getting rid of its own fleet will help Google cut costs as it makes money by taking a small commission of total purchase prices.

This saves money on material costs by reducing the number of parts needed tenfold or more, and also saves time from design to manufacturing, allowing objects to be produced in small batches in a cost - effective way.

While some monthly expenses appeal to a frugal sensibility — you might score discounts by signing up for regular deliveries of household staples through an Amazon subscription, for example — there are also plenty of regularly incurring costs that might seem like they'll save you money but actually do just the opposite.

By assuming things will cost more money and more time and the revenue will be lower I'm going to have automatically created a nice time / money bonus cushion with little extra effort.»

But «brokered» CDs with which Wells Fargo is aggressively trying to recruit new money from non-customers helped push its average «deposit cost» up by 100 % year - over-year, albeit from a minuscule 0.17 % in Q1 2017 to a still minuscule 0.34 % in Q1 2018.

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.

The idea is that retirees with well - diversified portfolios can start by withdrawing 4 percent (actually, it is closer to 4.5 percent) of their holdings — or $ 4,500 per year for every $ 100,000 of investments — to allow themselves a cost - of - living increase every year and still be reasonably assured of not outliving their money.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

He who controls the mint or the printing press, after all, realizes a profit by putting money into circulation (the term is seigniorage), since the cost of making a coin or banknote is usually less than its face value.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

This is how Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway make money — by consistently finding outperforming companies and acquiring them, or part of them, at fair costs.

Since taking the reins as CEO in 2013, he's worked to keep costs low, in part by urging employees to spend the company's money as if it was their own, a tenet he observes himself by always flying coach.

He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.

Take the netback, divide it by the operating cost as well as the money needed to buy and develop the land and the well itself.

Money in a special needs trust can cover supplemental needs not covered by Medicaid and SSI, such as recreation and dental and vision costs.

Other restaurant trusts, such as A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund, earn money on royalties paid by franchisees, whereas Priszm pays royalties to Yum and shoulders operating costs.

Terri Levine, a business mentoring expert, explains on QuickBooks, that she advises her «clients to collect all outstanding debts quickly, decrease prices by 10 to 15 percent, think about refinancing or borrowing money, offer customers discounts for prompt or upfront payments, and reduce costs by eliminating unnecessary overhead.»

«Although central banks have learned from the pain caused by high inflation in past years, they will not be able to offset the increase in interest costs due to all the money that has been and will be printed,» wrote one respondent.

Flexible work also impacts overhead costs and saves companies money by reducing office space, say both Branson and Hirst, while also cutting a company's carbon footprint.

Capture all the ways you spend money by putting your expenses into different categories and assigning a monthly cost to every category.

By investing in new, more energy efficient technology you will, over time, save money through energy cost savings.

He points out that while the Internet has slashed or even eliminated the price of entertainment, people have historically enjoyed many leisure activities that didn't cost much money, including taking solitary walks in the park and spending quality time with family members who weren't perpetually distracted by Twitter.

The cumulative cost of the small - business owner's investment includes time spent by staffers to prepare bids, travel cost to contracting conferences, shipping costs of documents and money spent at matchmaking events, says Weeks.

Activity - tracking exposes best practices as well as underperformance, allowing organizations to minimize costs by making personnel decisions before that time and money are wasted.

He and his family keep expenses relatively low by finding happiness in things that don't cost as much money, like hanging out with friends over home - cooked meals.

Furthermore, the 1 percent you pay to your money manager doesn't always cover the costs of buying and selling the stocks and bonds in your portfolio or the sales charges (also known as loads) and administrative fees charged by the mutual funds your manager puts you into.

According to a new poll by Morning Consult and Money Magazine, 49 % of respondents who canceled a meal kit service cited the cost (starting at $ 8.99 per serving on Blue Apron) as the biggest reason for their cancellation.

When Alan Mulally became CEO in 2006, he fully embraced Ford's heritage and restored its focus on automobiles, insisting Ford could make money in a full range of cars by being cost competitive with foreign automobile plants in the South.

But it doesn't have to be like that and now you can finally find a solution to the madness by simply taking a step back and evaluating what costs are worth experiencing and what are areas in which you can save money on.

The SkyDome was originally intended to cost $ 225 million but by the time the first baseball was hit, the cost had ballooned to over $ 650 million (almost $ 1 billion in today's money).

As a result, women saved their employers money by paying an average of $ 113 less per ticket, nearly a third of the cost of an average plane ticket.

You might save some money by not paying for accounting software from the start but this could cost you later on.

It also helps cost - effectively scale content marketing efforts by identifying existing content written about you that you can amplify, reducing the time / money needed to produce additional content.

We would go into each small business and do an IT audit and determine how much money could be saved by moving their IT infrastructure to low cost hardware and cloud hosted services.

I instruct my clients to collect all outstanding debts quickly, decrease prices by 10 to 15 percent, think about refinancing or borrowing money, offer customers discounts for prompt or upfront payments, and reduce costs by eliminating unnecessary overhead.

For example, in this chart, our marketer's key challenge is that their overall CPL (cost per lead) is being inflated by the amount of money they are spending to acquire leads through paid programs — implementing a solid content strategy could reduce the CPL.

Nevertheless, across a significant number of studies using different methodologies and performed by different researchers, a consistent picture is emerging about the effects of patent litigation: it costs innovators money; many innovators and venture capitalists report that it significantly impacts their businesses; innovators respond by investing less in R&D and venture capitalists respond by investing less in startups.

That proposal was controversial because some critics view it as a way for tech companies to simply save money on labor costs by relying on lower - paid workers from overseas.

For example, in the Philippines the growing population of overseas workers sending money back home has lead to the rise of financial technology (fintech) apps that offer a variety of new, low - cost services such as remittance payments, transfers, and lending that were otherwise expensive and dominated by a few groups.

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Disenfranchised with the high cost and lackluster performance of her IRA handled by a full - service broker, Ruth moved her retirement money to a Self - Directed IRA (SDIRA) in 2015.

By using bitcoin as the intermediary for international payments, employers can take advantage of the low costs associated with sending money over the blockchain.

In fact, the top reason they are interested in flexible work is work - life balance (69 percent), followed by money / cost savings (51 percent), time savings (50 percent), and stress (40 percent).

The amount of federal money will largely be determined by FEMA and state teams that will go into the field, survey the damage, and write reports about what needs to be fixed and how much it may cost to fix it.

By providing the grease that kept money flowing, central bankers superseded governments — they set the cost of money and provided the confidence in ongoing liquidity — the world was their battlefield.»