Sentences with phrase «even lost sales»

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Even as legislators and presidential hopefuls discuss gun control measures, investors worry that a year - long surge in firearm sales is losing steam.

Though most states theoretically require consumers to track and pay sales tax on purchases even if the tax isn't collected by the vendor, that rule has gone largely unenforced, leading to billions in lost revenue for cities and states.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Any effort by these cloud companies to build their own chip tech, even if they use for just a small part of their overall data centers and cloud businesses, could cause Intel to lose out on sales.

Sharon Schneider, founder of Schneider Educational Products, in San Francisco, was losing money even as she hired more sales reps for her line of finger - puppet books for preschoolers.

Even as Milner lost accounts, she gained word - of - mouth sales elsewhere.

In FY 2014, executives benefited from an upward adjustment for the lost sales attributed to cuts in the federal food stamp program, even after executives had publicly downplayed any potential impact.

While it wasn't enough to significantly damage Tesco in the long term, they lost sales, even though Tesco had some of the best customer loyalty programs around.

The small businesses can't revive their lines of credit or even get a business loan with a bank because they have lost their customer base and their sales can't support their loan requests.

So, assuming that Comey didn't lose any substantial portion of the $ 11 million he had in 2013 — though he did reportedly take a $ 500,000 loss on the sale of his Connecticut home last year — his payout from Bridgewater Associates and his advance on «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» alone would put his net worth at around $ 15.5 million with the potential to increase that even more if his book stays atop the best - seller list for long.

Cadillac has lost ground in the U.S., even as premium vehicle sales have risen and Cadillac's business has boomed in Asia.

Liberalization opens the market of our assets to foreign capital; people are losing ownership of their public enterprises, raw materials, markets and even capital savings through the eventual sale of state insurance funds, national banks and other public funds.

People are only looking at 50M loss in sales but believe me that there are a lot of intangibles to Sanchez staying for one more and worst case leaving for free (1) We make it to CL and recover the lost revenue (2) CL next year means that even if Sanchez leaves we are still attractive to world class players (3) We don't strengthen our rivals (4) Sanchez can make Lacazette as deadly as we expect.

No matter how you slice it, this admission is reason enough for termination of both Wenger and Gazidis... this owner, who has personally poisoned every major sporting organization he currently owns in North America (Rams, Avalanche & Nuggets), has no regard for the concerns of the fans, just ask anyone in St. Louis, home of the once - vaunted «Greatest Show on Earth»... they had to endure numerous losing campaigns under his reign, before suffering the ultimate humiliation, as he moved the team to Los Angeles to quench his seemingly unending financial thirst... do you think it's a coincidence that ever since his arrival both Wenger and Gazidis have made grand claims each and every May to secure season ticket sales then fail to live up to the billing... they will do anything to make money except the very things that would make the most sense from a soccer perspective: buying a world - class striker since RVP, a Viera - like boss in the midfield and a dominant, physical CB in the mold of Adams or Sol... let's face it, they didn't even try

Even if Spurs do raise a huge amount of cash from Kane's sale as Don Balon suggest, it's hard to imagine how much they'd have to spend to sign a striker anywhere near as good as the one they'd be losing.

Keen not to lose him after the recent sale of former teammate Ander Herrera to Manchester United, Athletic Bilbao president Josu Urrutia pulled out the stops to keep him at the club and even managed to increase his release clause from $ 37.5 million to $ 45 million.

Towns like West Seneca and Aurora would lose out on millions of funding that comes from their portion of the sales tax leading to possible draconian cuts or even worse, further tax increases at the town and village level.

It isn't a disaster now, because the cost of upkeep + «lost» sales tax receipts doesn't add up to anything even close to the subsidies that would have gone to the developers.

When I wait a few days or even weeks, I risk losing out on something I really wanted, but that rarely happens, and I usually end up saving a lot of money because retailers constantly have great deals and sales.

«Every secondary school in Trafford [which covers Sale and Altrincham] will lose funding, even though it is one of the places famously underfunded for education,» he said.

That Wednesday not only did Phil work with sales managers Walter Fields and Mark Catuara to get me in a new truck, he even gave up time with his son whom he was supposed to have a 16th birthday dinner with (he told me his wife pushed it to the weekend but I knew he was just being nice) and even after pleading with him that no truck is worth losing time with his son, he just kept saying how important my satisfaction was.

Bought a Chrysler 300 from Garrett Dieb Internet sales had a great experience would highly recommend him to anybody looking to purchase a vehicle I drove down from San Luis Obispo to purchase from them over 250 miles away worth the drive you may think you'll get a better deal or experience at some big name dealerships in the area but trust me they put in the extra effort and the general manager lost a bet because of me so that made it even more fun

In the current way of things, the local bookshop is my best bet for advice on buying books, but they're not even selling ebooks — so if I go to them but ultimately decide on buying digital, they offer advice but lose the sale.

* Top literary agents have the ability to navigate any challenges that come up during the pre-publication, publication, or post-publication process without losing their cool or damaging relationships: i.e. editors that are difficult, fired, laid - off, or decide to retire; bad book cover designers; your book being cut from the publisher's list before it's even published; bad reviews or publicity; poor book sales; changes in the industry or marketplace; etc..

Tim Kuik, BREIN's director, commented on the case, saying «Even if each book cost just one sale, there would already be 50,000 euros in lost revenue.

Using an international distributor, even if it means losing potential sales on the country - specific platforms?

A poorly - matched but inexpensive cover designer will end up costing you more in the long run, both in revisions or even a cover re-do, and in lost sales.

And each Publisher Defendant recognized that, even if it succeeded in raising retail prices for its e-books, if its competitor publishers» e-books remained at the lower, competitive level, it would lose sales to other Publisher Defendants.

Many first - time writers and those eager to have their book published are often sucked in by high pressure sales reps who will convince the first - time author that they are losing money by not publishing their book straight away or heaping praise on them to cajole them to signing a contract without even reading their manuscript.

It is anticipated that the creditors and vendors will approve of the sale, even though they would lose millions, since keeping the stores open means a continued outlet for their products.

You know e-book sales are dismal when a publisher will not even say anymore how much they lost.

Most ebook piracy can not even be seen as lost sales or revenue, since it assumes that many who do would have paid for it otherwise, or that they even read the book or plan to.

When they ended sales in the UK even though the accounts were bought by Sainsbury, I imagine people lost all of their highlights.

It's easy to see that, for the past 4 years, and even taking lost print sales into consideration, far more Indie authors than Big - 5 authors are earning a living wage from their writing.

It was like an international road - race which somehow only Germans won... once this was publicized, even if the best runner was German — if he won, your race's credibility was in the toilet, now and always) That would re-establish the credibility of the award as essentially picking «best» rather than left wing flavor of the month lose and 75 % of your sales.

A co-op removes that advantage and, I think, creates an even stronger level of support, since each you are dependent on the the success of the group, whereas a publisher can dump you at the first sign of lost sales.

You might lose a few sales due to the jack - of - all - trades perception, but you might gain even more sales from people who know or meet you and from multi-book sales (perhaps not all at once, but readers who enjoy one book now and check out a much different one months from now).

So many authors, even experienced ones, forget to set up the UK option and lose out on possible sales.

Amazon's strategic decision to lose money or only break even on such a significant part of its ebook sales was based on its belief that the overall «sweet spot» for ebook prices topped out at $ 9.99.

Users these days won't wait even 2 seconds for your page to load — if it's slow, you've lost the sale.

Even the print sales (Whiskey Sour just went into a fifth printing) don't come close to making up the money I'm losing.

Still, even with Kindle sales rising, I can't help but see eBooks as primarily an ancillary product right now — a welcome new stream of revenue at a time when we're all losing revenue on printed books.

Since most of those sales resulted from paid promotions I ran, I likely lost more «sales» than I would have made had I been in the KDP Select program, since any KU members that were on the promotional email lists would have been more likely to download my books (since they could do so for free), even though the books were already discounted to $ 0.99.

And while all other tablet makers grew share last year, there was one surprising exception: Amazon (s amzn) lost share even though it boosted sales from 7.7 million to 9.4 million tablets.

I'm sure Amazon isn't making a killing on device sales — and may be breaking even or even losing money.

If a $ 1 can't hold rank on the popularity list, it has fewer sales; if it has fewer sales, it loses rank on the bestseller list (depressing sales even further).

The new borrow rate of $ 1.40 (I've rounded up the figure from the actual outturn of $ 1.39 1/2) means all Kindle authors with books priced in the 35 % royalty range will gain from borrows compared with sales, but authors in the 70 % royalty range will lose out even at the minimum of $ 2.99 where a sale would net $ 2.09.

The latest report reveals that even though Apple continues to rank on top among global tablet sales, it still has lost its global market share from 29.2 percent in 2013 to 22.8 percent this year.

Even though it's too early to tell whether the new iPads, recently unveiled by Apple, will manage to revive the sales or not, the latest figures revealed by IDC's quarterly report indicates that Apple is losing its global market share.

The key to an effective tax - loss harvesting strategy is to evaluate what you own and why you own it, identify investments that have lost value, and then consider the sale of some portion of those holdings to offset realized gains, expected future gains, or even income.