Sentences with phrase «doing less business»

The traditional model today, which is really a pyramid... more agents doing less business at a high price to the consumer, is not only being attacked by brokerages offering the same and sometimes better service, call them discount brokerages if you want, but it's being attacked by brokerages offering discounted fees to industry members.

For years its been more REALTORS doing less business and charging high fees.

And not only has ASI been the subject of much bad publicity over the past few years, it's also doing less business than in past years.

«Increasing intra-African trade, however, does not mean doing less business with the rest of the world.»

Yakuza: Of the End did less business with a larger PS3 install base, either telling us that Japanese gamers are experiencing annual Yakuza fatigue or they just don't like the introduction of undead in their gangster brawler - dramas.

The U.K. has voted to turn back the clock on trade and labour mobility, while the surprising rise of Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, who has campaigned on scrapping the North American Free Trade Agreement, suggests a sizable chunk of U.S. voters want the U.S. to do less business with the rest of the world, not more.

Star Club, a Mario - themed bar in Tokyo's Shinjuku nightlife district (and the retro - gaming themed 8 - bit Cafe, around the corner), would do less business with foreign fans and Japanese otaku alike were it not for the cheery moustachioed presence.

Those associates who don't use any services from the broker — and who don't provide the services themselves — tend to do less business and, therefore, put themselves on the bottom of the recruiting list.

Not exact matches

Also, customers are less likely to do business with a company if they don't respect its values or leadership.

Businesses with more than 50 employees that do not offer coverage will be taxed based on the size of their payrolls, but the cost will be significantly less than the cost of providing insurance benefits, and the tax is not set to go into effect until the 2014 fiscal year.

Business strategy is less about what you do and more about what you choose not to do.

Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn't mean it's any less important than up - front material such as the business concept and the management team.

The more that business owners take such points on board, the less chance they have of doing damage

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.

In fact, it's extremely important you get customer service right on Fiverr, because if you don't, the customer can write a bad review which leads to less business.

If the company does not have the right business growth and management systems in place, the company will be less attractive.

No one on the West Coast has a shorter memory or less reluctance than entrepreneurs to do business with anyone with funds (a good entrepreneur would borrow cash from his grandmother) except maybe Hollywood producers who'd work with the devil if he had a hot concept.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

Even though Palmer wasn't in Zimbabwe to «do business,» as a tourist he was none the less engaging in a commercial transaction.

Doing business in less - developed country is always going to pose a range of challenges, from corrupt officials to bad infrastructure to non-existent environmental regulations and shoddy labour conditions.

A renewed, entrepreneurial focus on doing more with less will truly help make small business the priority that it should be.

«When I don't move my body in a way that I enjoy, my business suffers, and I become less productive and a lot less creative.

Every business owner I work with thinks their project will take less time than it actually does.

And that doesn't address the bigger price pressures on the less elite Uber driving services, even as costs of doing business have increased.

Many small business owners feel that they have to settle for less when it comes to their web presence; many don't even have a website.

The study found that nearly 40 percent of small business owners who didn't know their business credit score anticipated growth of less than 5 percent, while nearly three quarters who did, envisioned growth of up to 20 percent.

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.

While having a Facebook page and a Twitter account is more or less considered a requirement for online businesses today, don't neglect the less - established platforms.

And small businesses, SBA partners, and advocates in Congress — Democrats and Republicans — fear that in its main line of work the agency is in fact doing less with less.

«I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.»

White says, «Women - owned businesses do not make less money because they are women - owned.

In any case, she suggests, the SBA's role in the American economy is statistically insignificant — less than 1 percent of all businesses receive SBA loans each year — yet constitutes unfair competition to businesses that don't need such help and a potentially huge liability to taxpayers should the economy tank.

In today's age of fake news, it probably doesn't come as a huge shock to you that false information might end up on the internet, but while posting utter nonsense has sadly come to be expected in the political realm, it's somewhat less expected in business reporting.

Although there are some companies offering SEO services for less, they are often not specialized and can do more harm to your business than doing any good.

«We're not saying no one should ever drink at all — we're just saying if you do drink, even trying to keep it down to less than one drink a day would be a smart choice,» Alice Bender, a registered dietitian who is the head of nutrition programs for the AICR, told Business Insider in May.

If keywords matter less, long tailed keywords matter more, the ability to answer search engine queries through content matters most, and links are still extremely effective, what can businesses on a tight SEO budget do to increase their exposure?

Based on that increase, I'd say more small business owners are getting used to the new economic norm, which includes getting a whole lot more done with a whole lot less resources.

According to the 4th Annual Staples National Small Business survey, which surveyed 300 nationally - representative businesses of 20 employees or less, more than 80 percent of businesses do not properly monitor their company's goals.

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.

When our unemployment rate doesn't change, less money is being pumped into the economy — and into our small businesses.

As unemployment falls and more companies have their pick of jobs, they are less likely to do business with companies who don't pay them fairly.

Building a business requires doing a of less - than - thrilling tasks, day after day.

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These come in the forms of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, but trademark and copyright laws are less favorable for small businesses, so they don't hold as much weight as a patent does.

Doing more with less is common practice for most businesses in an economic slowdown and the state's architects are no different, with many adapting and evolving their services to win work.

«The business climate is still less than wonderful, but we're doing fairly well,» Abramson says.

Among the lesser known discoveries during the early days at Google was the realization that business could grow faster if customers didn't have to spend weeks studying an unduly complicated contract.

Recent interest in London may have more to do with the relative ease of doing business there, and less with its status as an E.U. entry point.

Most new business owners also feel strongly that they need to do things like secure legal resources or an attorney, when often sites like LegalZoom give you access to legal professionals for much less.

Meanwhile, introverts have recently staged an upsurgence, agitating for acceptance of their quieter but no less successful methods of doing business.