Sentences with phrase «figure businesses around»

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Richard Branson is an iconic entrepreneurial figure, a high school drop - out whose knack for seizing opportunities, taking risks, spotting opportunities, and betting on himself and the people around him to build businesses in a variety of industries.

Fortunately, there are some tactics that business owners can employ to turn these figures around and engage fans who will be real, living, breathing people with an interest in whatever it is you're offering.

After an immigration application was rejected, Figure 1 hired a business development lead in New York and staffed up around that employee, wrote CEO Gregory Levey in an opinion piece last year.

For example, the first short - term goal might be to figure out the startup's business model, the next might be to get customers to use or pay for the product, and the third to expand success from one market to five around the world.

What business owners say is, I see this information swirling around on these social networks, but I can not really figure out what it means.

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Yet, when he looked around Berkeley to figure out the playbook for turning an idea into business, he couldn't find any entrepreneurship groups to help him launch it.

Following the revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had secured all - but - unfettered access to user data held by the largest U.S. tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, politicians and businesses around the world were struggling to figure out what exactly this news meant for them.

The companies that figure this out first will have a leg up — and some may even be able to build new businesses around people - tracking.

For example, the weak employee - engagement figures cost American businesses around $ 450 billion every year.

«Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green not only backs up everything it says with well - established facts and figures so you finish the book thoroughly convinced Jay and Shel are telling you the absolute truth, it also opens your mind to endless possibilities around marketing your business.

So far the company has done jack shit for business, aside from drum up a deal with Juno Therapeutics which gave them $ 25 million shekels for the boffins to run around and figure some shit out.

Businesses in Victoria reported rotation practices for around 2 million cattle, or 30 % of the national figure, across 208,000 paddocks (41 % of all paddocks).

The event, which is supported by the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and WNBA, will bring together representatives of more than 75 professional teams from around the world, along with league officials, business and government figures and grassroots entrepreneurs to share information, ideas and positive practices.

The Liberal Democrats insist that the figure almost trebles to around 33m if crimes against children and businesses are included.

I went from being a top performer at a Big 4 accounting firm, to leaving it all behind to study nutrition and whole living, to building a six and then seven figure online business based all around something that I'm wild crazy obsessed with.

I'm Emmelie De La Cruz, a personal branding strategist and business auditor, best known for my ability to help millennials gain clarity around their personal brands to collect purposeful paychecks and figure out how to organize and prioritize their business.

But, after reading yet another article about a group of authors whining because the new program will put them out of business — and without them waiting around to see how the program pays out at the end of the month — I decided to see if the preliminary figures support my initial thoughts on the program.

Overall, the audiobook industry is a growing global business, currently worth around $ 1.6 billion dollars and that figure should climb further.

I know most authors don't have a lot of cash lying around for book promotion (I don't either actually, but promoting my own books is a business expense, because people trust me to figure stuff like this out and share the results with them, so I kind of have to pull it off).

Despite the scandal surrounding Simon & Schuster's new business partner, Author Solutions, you might figure out how to work around converting your fixed - layout format into a nicely designed eBook package.

He noted he knew little to nothing of the business but used simple calculations to figure out that the annual return on average was around 10 % for the farm and building.

I'm Emmelie De La Cruz, a personal branding strategist and business auditor, best known for my ability to help millennials gain clarity around their personal brands to collect purposeful paychecks and figure out how to organize and prioritize their business.

In The Western Front, we sample a wide range of Jennings» work around public interventions, from his Business Reply series to his most recent Anarchist Action Figure work.

With the exception of a drop in global emissions around the time of the 2009 financial crisis, which heavily depressed overall business activity, the BP figure of 0.1 % growth in CO2 is the lowest for 25 years.

As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»

Well, we can figure that people are going to use their cell phones and the internet with or without printed business cards and brochures floating around.

It's quite another to pursue that thought day in and day out to figure out how to build an entire business model around it, let alone then persuade enough people to pay for it!

The controversy centers around the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and its connections to high - ranking political figures, their relatives, celebrities, and business figures, including Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.

More often than not, the caller is someone with domain expertise that sees a gap, an inefficiency, or an opportunity and they want to figure out what it would take to make things better... and to maybe build a business around the idea.

Bloomberg has reported that Avvo is valued at around $ 650 million, a remarkable figure for a legal sector business that was only founded in 2007.

Microsoft is known to use the billion dollar figure to validate successful business units worth keeping around.

You might be throwing around loose figures with a client which you or they don't want quoted verbatim further down the line, speculating and projecting on business performance or discussing an employee's salary or promotion prospects.

While our team works with clients in nearly all industries, all professions, and at all professional levels, our clients include thousands of top - caliber C - level executives, presidents, vice-presidents, directors, senior managers, political figures, government leaders, and celebrities working in both the public and private sector, in large corporate to small business settings around the world.

I'm Emmelie De La Cruz, a personal branding strategist and business auditor, best known for my ability to help millennials gain clarity around their personal brands to collect purposeful paychecks and figure out how to organize and prioritize their business.

I spent time in the office in those start - up days because I thought that was what I was supposed to do, and it didn't take long for me to figure that those who sat around the office didn't do much business.

2014 is right around the corner, so it's time for you to sit down and figure out what you can do to improve your business heading into the New Year.

Figuring that out can help provide clarity around your business.