Sentences with phrase «first getting the attention»

They would first get the attention of the local gay market through ads and stories run in local gay newspapers and magazines and through their support of social and fund - raising events to which gays would normally be attracted.

Musk first got our attention in February at a conference in Monterey, California, called TED, for technology, entertainment, and design.

I have been listening to this song for many years now and it first got my attention while I was watching the movie Cruel Intention over and over with one of my closest friends who unfortunately passed away.

Bloom first got attention in back - to - back franchise trilogies with Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, and then Gore Verbinski's original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.

Back in the 1980s, when AIDS was first getting attention, there was a great deal of research done on FIV because it was thought that the two retroviruses were similar.

It's their love of finding alternative travel that first got my attention and now I love watching their videos.

Big Fish Games first got my attention by offering one - hour - free trials of their casual titles, before that was a terribly common distribution method.

First getting attention for his ballet - informed performances, he won plaudits when he transformed Elizabeth Dee Gallery into a photo studio in 2011, where he invited visitors off the street to pose in a variety of colorful, costume - enhanced tableaux, and then further bowled over the critics with his 2013 Performa commission «MEEM: A Ballet for the Internet,» a dance performance translating the visuality of the Internet into three dimensions that McNamara restaged during the last Art Basel Miami Beach.

Laser first got attention in 2009 when she staged and filmed Chase: a rendition of Bertolt Brecht's play Man Equals Man — in ATM vestibules throughout New York City.

Setting yourself apart starts by first getting the attention of the hiring manager.

But what first got my attention was price of surgery.

Not exact matches

The first step when reaching out to prospects is get their attention with the human face of your brand.

Don't be discouraged if your first story (or first few) gets little or no attention.

The reason my second Facebook post got so much more attention than the first was that I spent a lot of time cultivating an audience whose members care about the specific message, then I simply shared something that I knew they would like.

I know this caught his attention because the first thing he said when we got on the phone was to ask me how the BYU football team was doing.

«So the first thing to do is get attention off of you.»

Since mattresses are big investments, trying the pillow first provides a glimpse into the complete sleep experience you could be getting (and the attention to detail that goes into their products), at a fraction of the commitment level.

But in the day - to - day crush of getting things done, most business owners and managers let their attention drift away from customers, according to Joseph Callaway, co-author with his wife JoAnn of the bestselling book «Clients First.»

«If you look at the old model of advertising, it has an ascending story arc with a big reveal at the end, whereas in today's world, with everyone on their phones, you need to deliver the headline first to get their attention,» she says.

But you won't get retweeted in the first place, or gain much attention on Twitter, unless you tweet information and links that others find interesting or valuable.

«I try to select one project or task first thing in the morning and focus all of my attention on getting it done.

From the first magazine published in 1741, to the first billboards in the late 1800s, the art of getting the public's attention and turning it into sales has gone through a dramatic evolution over the past few hundred years.

The first step to getting the attention of journalists is fairly easy - just treat them like they are human.

To get ahead of the competition, your attention should be focused on making a great first impression, then building positive reviews and testimonials.

But when we're a little bored and a lot relaxed, we turn the spotlight of attention inward, and that makes us much more likely to hear this obscure circuit of cells,» which makes it possible to get the insight in the first place.

They knew that busy professionals often check their email first thing in the morning, and so an email newsletter was the natural choice to get their attention.

If you don't get the audience's attention in the first few seconds, you might as well be speaking to an empty room.

Instead, they suggest you turn potential opposition to your advantage: conflict will get people's attention, and that's the first essential step to convincing a group to buy into an idea.

If you are pitching a revenue lift to their business, first you need to research what their current revenues are, and conceive ways your business can help them grow their revenues (where a minimum lift of 5 - 10 percent should get their attention).

Since the History Channel show, Pawn Stars, first started capturing viewers» attention in 2009, the seedy image of pawnbrokers has gotten a well - needed buffing.

Besides, how long will our dwindling attention spans really remember what it was that got us all so upset in the first place?

So, for right now, I just want to narrow down our focus onto those first 8 seconds, and look at some of the things you can do to grab and hold your prospects» attention long enough to get him to open the envelope, so you can get the rest of your 20 seconds to pull him into your piece.

If you've missed the first wave of reporting but want to get more press attention, and are not afraid of taking a definitive, perhaps controversial stance, this type of newsjacking works like a charm.

Ironically, while all our attention for years was focused on getting the SEC to act, adoption of the DOL Conflict of Interest Rule was the first real success in this area.

In fact, Midtown South — which has gotten a lot of attention lately because of its popularity with technology and media firms — has represented 73 percent of the positive office space absorption in Manhattan through the first four months of the year, commercial data firm Cassidy Turley reported.

«In order to get eyeballs on your content, you first have to get people's attention.

I am, however, saying that we will get little right about either God or our neighbor until we have shifted the primary focus of our attention once more to the first and great commandment.

But one such clergyman is getting a lot of attention this week: Father Mychal Judge, a Franciscan friar who donned a brown robe and sandals and who was the first recorded casualty of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

You know... get their attention first, then reel them in... fishers of me.

First, there struggles might be what God is using to get their attention.

Science Works The serpent was no doubt a barker as he stood by the attraction (tree of knowledge) and got the attention of his first customer Eve.

That show, Last Week Tonight, is entering its second season after getting plenty of attention for its first.

It was indeed only in the early Renaissance, in the liturgical drama which influenced the subject matter of the newly recovered art of painting — where the resurrection did get attention — that Magdalene was returned to prominence and became for the first time an officially popular figure.

Why is this first amendment issue getting so much press attention?

The materialist underpinnings of secular science get the most attention, particularly in the first half of the book.

The first question, then, is not how we can get rid of computers in worship, but, rather, whether we are paying sufficient attention to the ways in which computer technology in worship forms and shapes us.

Barack Obama's snark about folks clinging to their guns and Bibles because they can't handle post-modernity got a mulligan from a star - struck press corps; but among those paying attention that elitist smackdown put the final nail in the coffin of Obama - the - unifier, the trope Obama had exploited since his first appearance on the national stage at the 2004 Democratic convention.

I imagine Him seeking you, first with the gentleness of a lover, but now with greater and greater urgency by whatever means possible to get your attention; to get you to turn back to Him.

I had marked my calendar to call for tix to your booksigning in Brookline MA, but my kiddo got sick (nothing like a 104 degree fever to get your attention), and when I called today the nice lady on the phone told me that it sold out in the first 2 hours!!

I tried doing it the first time and didn't pay attention, so I forgot to get heavy cream.