Sentences with phrase «do at least some business»

Because most student - loan companies and colleges in the country do at least some business with New York consumers, Cuomo had all of the grounds he needed to begin a nationwide investigation.

Not exact matches

You obviously know your business better than the celebrity knows your business so definitely challenge pricing if it does not seem of at least equal value (or value in your favor).

If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by less than 20 percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95 percent of recipients, according to Mashable.

If you don't know much about business structures, permits and taxes, then at least consult with someone who does before wading into it.

At the ery least, doing business requires a degree of mutual respect, embodied in our commitment to getting things from others by offering them what we think they want in return.

I've had people in my life who to some extent ran the business side of my life, or at least were partners and associates who thought in business terms much more than I did.

«Not that he did a great deal of good, but at least he didn't make a mess,» one business leader wrote.

Second, if it really is necessary, when doing business overseas, to engage in practices that wouldn't be allowed back home, are you at least doing what you can to a) minimize the frequency of such violations and b) working, in at least some small way, to improve standards in the local business community?

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

In business, we have a terrible tradition going back at least as far as Frederick Taylor (yes, the «Taylorism» Taylor) that jobs are things done by employees, but designed by their so - called superiors.

Martinez concedes that the effort does not directly benefit his businesses — at least not yet.

But great employees don't just do a job; they solve at least one critical business need.

And if you need to cobble together multiple plans to insure for greater risk, you at least can take comfort from knowing that there are dozens of companies that might be interested in doing business with you.

Take a page from what Google (at least possibly used to do) and let employees use a portion of their work week to focus on a side project that may help your business.

Entrepreneurs understandably seek partners who are at least as experienced as themselves to jumpstart the business but that doesn't always happen.

Customers don't trust reviews if they don't see at least some bad ones — businesses with 10 to 30 percent negative reviews actually receive more than 10 times more leads than businesses with nearly all five - star reviews.

Most of the business community, and many of the president's own economic advisers, are urging him not to do it, or at least soften the blow by targeting certain offending countries.

If American business owners are truly worried about the long - term prospects of the U.S. economy, they should be doing what the Argentines do: looking outside their borders to find markets in which there is less uncertainty — or at least different kinds of uncertainty.

Here is my edited summary of their ten principles, which might just convince you that you don't need a business plan at all, or at the very least, will help you write a better one later:

How to Avoid a Social Media Lawsuit: Steps for Businesses to Take At the very least, make sure that your employee social media policy is outlined clearly, that the content your business is publishing is not copyrighted or trademarked, that you use full disclosure to abide by FTC guidelines and that you don't improperly share user data.

How do the five senses affect retail — and how your business might be able to (subconciously, at least) encourage shoppers to buy more products and shop more often?

Unlimited vacation policies are — at least in theory — extremely popular and a very hot topic among employers and employees... but how does a small business actually go about implementing a policy where employees can take as much time off as they like?

What you can do: If you can't upgrade to business class, at least use the SeatGuru site to find the best seats available.

You have to admit that at least part of business success has to do with the timeliness of your products or services.

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

It's often hard to pigeonhole a generation of business owners, but as a voting block they do seem to come together — at least on one issue.

Four in five women hope to grow their businesses «substantially» or «at least a moderate amount» by 2013, according to a survey of some 700 female business owners done by PNC Financial Services Group.

«I'm doing business in South America and wanted to explore seed production in Mexico but didn't think I'd have time to do the research for at least a year,» says Hemminger.

Cablevision CEO James Dolan said during an earnings call Wednesday «we don't see at least what the Chairman has been discussing as having any real effect on our business.»

But it did break the plans down into their individual components, and at least one conclusion will cause dismay among business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

Airline food doesn't have to be punishing, at least not in business class.

So you have to find a business model where everything you do in it at least covers your marginal costs.»

Well, you can't have a great company if you don't have a successful business, and you can't have a successful business if you don't at least have a workable idea.

, a rundown on financial obligations to be imposed on some large businesses that don't offer coverage meeting at least minimum standards.

But it is less clear whether Polman can succeed in convincing his peers in the business world that it's their job to fix those problems — or at least, whether he can succeed in doing that during his remaining time as CEO of Unilever.

That allowed the company to concentrate on what it had — for numerous decades at least — done very well: writing steady, highly profitable policies for America's storefront bakeries, dentists» offices, and other businesses.

If you don't have the ready cash to survive at least six months, you'd be wise to postpone starting your business until you have the necessary funds.

But when it comes to success in business, arguing can be a good thing, at least if it's done right.

We wanted to wait at least a year to get the experience of being in the business, because we had never done this before.

The answer to that question is simple: Because it's so hard to do and it's very inefficient, Niu says, at least if businesses take the «traditional» route of asking for and then evaluating employee surveys.

According to figures from the Financial Conduct Authority, released by the House of Commons» Treasury Select Committee in September, 5,476 UK firms have at least one passport that allows them to do business in other EU and European Economic Area nations.

Kabbage offers a business line of credit to small business owners who have been operating at least 12 months who don't necessarily have tip - top credit.

Combine this with the fact that once you do secure your business loan, you will need to provide at least 20 percent cash down, and it's no wonder that many prospective small business owners don't even consider SBA loans as a...

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

Furthermore, assume that they use it at least as much as you do - to research options, product features and specs, and, yes, product and business reviews.

Combine this with the fact that once you do secure your business loan, you will need to provide at least 20 percent cash down, and it's no wonder that many prospective small business owners don't even consider SBA loans as a viable financing option.

The talks between CVS and Aetna appear to be in part an attempt to fend off a move by Amazon into the drug - selling business — or at least to insulate the companies in case Amazon does invade.

As for individual stocks (at least the stable, quality businesses), you don't liquidate just because a recession may depress earnings next quarter, or even for a few years.

All this outcry and revelation about Facebook's business practices and more do not (at least in theory) effect its latest earnings report.

Bad reviews may be a negative thing for you, but at the very least you can react to that criticism by changing the way you do business.