«This flat -
fee model offers students maximum convenience and affordability, ensuring they have everything they need to be successful during the semester while keeping extra money in their wallets.»
Not exact matches
In 2000, Dale launched a brokerage called Realtysellers that
offered different levels of service and lower
fees to home sellers, breaking from the old full - service
model that saw agents involved in every part of the transaction, including advertising, showings and negotiating the close.
The proposed regulations, put out for public comment Jan. 4, would ban high upfront
fees and restrict the kinds of contracts debt settlement companies can
offer, effectively outlawing the business
model most popular with, among others, Cambridge Life Solutions, a company Matt McClearn and I wrote about in this magazine last fall.
That's the idea behind the addictive mobile games developed by Kabam, which has harnessed the «free to play»
model of
offering free games but while layering on extra content for a
fee.
Some health economists and insurance companies are also seeking a change from
fee - for - service to an outcome - based
model,
offering incentives for successful and efficient treatments.
By 2000, having ditched the pay - per - rental
model in favor of monthly subscriptions and no late
fees, Netflix
offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $ 50, but the brick - and - mortar chain wasn't interested.
This also allows RxAdvance to
offer all services under one flat administrative
fee under the pass - through
model.
Tradestation, another discount online brokerage, also
offers a
fee - per - share
model as an alternative of the
fee - per - trade
model.
Because they were the first to
offer an alternative to the old - school, expert - driven, high -
fee investing
model.
Unlike the traditional physical spot cost
model for investing in gold with management
fees and ongoing storage charges levied, RMGs will
offer ownership of the underlying gold with the option for conversion to physical gold by The Royal Mint with zero storage cost.
In addition to «flat -
fee - only» and «
fee - offset»
models, the SunAmerica Advisory Opinion provides that asset allocation services
offered to participants (involving advice and even discretionary management) that are the product of a computer
model developed and overseen by an independent financial expert, and subject to certain additional conditions, would allow a service provider (the broker - dealer, in this case) to avoid PTs when receiving variable / indirect compensation from its platform of investment
offerings.
We believe that diverse distribution
models offer more choice and no one compensation
model -
fee - based, commission - based, or asset management - based - is best for all customers.
Ministers also hope to steal a march on David Cameron, whose quest for localism and accountability has produced easyPolitics, in which councils will
model themselves on budget airlines,
offering a no - frills package and charging top - up
fees for extra services.
(The company already has 300 open access journals; 1300 others operate on a «hybrid
model,» charging subscription
fees but
offering authors the option of paying $ 2000 to make a paper accessible immediately.)
DISCLAIMER: * Your additional costs are sales tax, tag and title
fees for the state in which the vehicle will be registered, $ 995 freight (all new BMW
models), any dealer - installed options (if applicable) Every Loaner Vehicle Internet Price includes current applicable manufacturer rebates and incentives, but certain conditions apply to some of these
offers.
The X3 is supplied with a three - year, unlimited - mileage warranty as standard, and towards the end of the term, owners will be
offered a BMW Insured Warranty (for a
model - specific
fee) to extend cover on an annual basis.
The Toyota Prius C is the third hybrid
model offered by the Japanese manufacturer in North America, the starting price of the
model being set for $ 18,950 (excluding the $ 760 destination
fee).
Interesting features of this
model are tow ratings up to 30,000 pounds, impressive powertrain
offerings, excellent powertrain warranty, available Uconnect technology, luxury options, and Best - in - class features across multiple categories Taxes, tags, processing
fee of $ 899 and dealer installed accessories additional.
There's currently two
models on
offer, the entry level Giulietta, priced from $ 36,990 (not including delivery or statutory
fees), while the powerful «Cloverleaf» QV
model starts at $ 41,990.
Because retailer discounting is prohibited by the agency agreements, retailers have been prevented from introducing innovative sales
models or promotions with respect to Publisher Defendants» e-books, such as
offering e-books under an «all - you - can - read» subscription
model where consumers would pay a flat monthly
fee.
Another force behind the wider adoption of digital titles has been the abundance of tablet or device based reading options provided by subscription apps like PressReader or Zinio; these
models have allowed consumers and organizations alike to
offer the value - added feature of unlimited reading for a low monthly
fee.
Amazon announced Kindle Unlimited last month with much fanfare, establishing a subscription
model for its
offerings — pay one low
fee each month, read as many books as you like.
Apparently, Oyster is not the first pioneer in the business when it comes to
offering eBooks for a small
fee, Amazon
offers similarly alluring business
model that goes by the name of Kindle Owners Lending Library which you can access through KDP Select.
Unlike other leading ebook DRMs currently available in the market, Lektz DRM is
offered on Self - hosting (On - premise)
model with no revenue sharing or transaction
fee.
Perlego works with a subscription
model,
offering publishers a percentage of the monthly subscription
fee based on the how much of the book is read.
It considers
fee - only advisers to be those who
offer either the
fee - for - service or percentage - of - assets
model.
Tradestation, another discount online brokerage, also
offers a
fee - per - share
model as an alternative of the
fee - per - trade
model.
With SoFi, there is no
fee to get pre-qualified and we do a soft credit pull, which means it won't affect your credit score.A pre-approval is a more formal
offer, based on a complete credit check, evaluation of your employment history, income and assets, and the completion of the Automated Valuation
Model (AVM) for the property you'd like to purchase.
AQR's business
model is to
offer up simplified quant versions of these strategies and charge relatively low
fees.
By streamlining these processes, Fundrise and the eREIT
model offer investors more transparency, lower
fees, and potentially better returns than the Vanguard REIT ETF.
These competitors follow similar business
models, which means that they can also afford to cut back on account
fees and boost the interest rates they
offer to customers.
Its online - only
model allows it to minimize
fees and
offer better interest rates to customers.
Investment dealers
offer «wrap accounts» which either use pooled funds or invest client monies in a «
model portfolio» approach for a single asset based
fee.
Additionally, with such an acute customer demographic base, it is simply hilarious that these firms attempt to be rigid in their pricing
models regarding commissions and
fees.An elementary equation of supply of potential customers (minimal) and available broking platforms (plenty) make the decision to select a broker that is very simply for the client to
offer the prospective broker what they are prepared to pay NOT for the broker to state this is what the
fees and commissions are.
With brokerage costs
offered at companies like www.foliofn.com, it seems much more feasibly for someone to have extremely high turnover in stocks, decently low brokerage
fees and closely follow the holdings of these quantitative
models which are easily spread over 5 - 200 stocks at any given time, and consistently beat the market.
CRYENGINE V launches today with a «Pay What You Want» business
model,
offering developers everywhere total access to the engine's feature - set and full engine source code for a
fee of their choosing, and with no obligation to pay royalties or additional service charges.
«The Finnish company that grew out of Rovio believes the gaming industry is ready for flat -
fee monthly
offers to give players a greater choice of titles and replace the irritating free - at - first, pay - later
model that has dominated this decade.»
After the second TBD Law, I began
offering flat
fee consulting services, trying to steer away from the hourly basis and attract my cost - conscious base with the fixed cost
model.
An additional pressure, as recorded in respondent comments in the Best Legal Advisers survey, is that some law firms have failed to update their client service delivery
model by
offering lower
fees, alternative or fixed
fees, and by implementing more efficient internal procedures.
These options include a first party
model of provision whereby the driver's own insurer provides the replacement vehicle regardless of cost; a regulatory
model intended to introduce the formal regulation of credit hire providers which would permit the capping of costs and a ban on referral
fees; an industry code of conduct which would build on the existing GTA; or a «competitive
offer»
model allowing the at - fault insurer to provide the vehicle at lower cost if they can do so.
-- this type of pricing
model offers a fixed monthly
fee under either a global retainer covering all the legal work or a specific retainer covering identified aspects of the work.
Answer: Yes, but if you align your business
model to clients» best interests and then
offer fixed
fees, that same suspicion doesn't exist.
Yes, but if you align your business
model to clients» best interests and then
offer fixed
fees, that same suspicion doesn't exist.
Lawyers will not have to sacrifice legal
fees to
offer unbundled services if they take note from the business
models that work best.
Tarlton's article focuses on four law firms that are reinventing the practice of law through delivering corporate services in unconventional ways,
offering flat
fees and other value billing
models, eliminating vestiges of traditional law practice like a partner - associate structure.
If I
offer a fixed - price «contested» divorce, for example, then the incentive for the client is to make full - use of that pricing
model and to regularly and repeatedly want to: 1) talk about their case (i.e., their evil spouse's latest antics) on the phone or in - person; 2) file more motions to get their spouse to do something, to prevent their spouse from doing something, or to object to something the court ruled; 3) send more «demand letters» or make more phone calls to the opposing party or their attorney to tell them to return the car seat, or to complain that they dropped off the child 15 minutes late, etc; and 4) respond to ad hoc motions from the other side (motions for attorney's
fees, motions to compel discovery, motions for summary disposition, motions to enforce, etc).
For those that suggest the billable hour will forever be the predominant
model, there are now flat
fees offered by companies for who that would have previously seemed unimaginable.
Now, with 11 lawyers and more than seven years of success using this new
model, Valorem hears many firms claim to
offer alternative
fees.
Despite this, lawyers should be looking for opportunities to switch to flat -
fee pricing
models and innovating around new fixed -
fee legal
offerings.
Clients, on the other hand, say they don't want to accept fixed
fees because they figure that the lawyer, always having his or her own financial interests uppermost in mind, would only
offer an AFA if it was guaranteed to produce more revenue than the billable - hour
model would have generated; if the lawyer wants it, it must be bad for the client.