Sentences with phrase «good little company»

It wasn't always so; once upon a time Budweiser and Pepsi picked up after themselves like good little companies.

Not exact matches

As hard as companies work to solicit and serve customers, I'm always surprised by how little most businesses do to stay in touch with those they once served so well.

That suggests that, for people who do own Sony, don't dump it yet — the few dollar gains S&P Capital IQ is predicting could give your portfolio a little boost in this still volatile market environment — but new buyers may want to seek out a better performing tech company.

37Signals is a great little software company based in Chicago, and it's founder Jason Fried, a must - read business blogger, is always up for a good screed.

To play it a little safer, and avoid more failures, the USDA, (as well as the DOE) have more recently required companies that get their loan guarantees to meet more stringent milestones and conditions.

But even on the broadest and most inclusive understanding of the word «ethics,» there's little reason to think that learning about ethics is going to make you better able to shepherd a company through an IPO.

The company sold two million in just 24 hours, besting the previous record set last year by a little company named Apple, when it sold one million units of the iPhone 4S.

When they take a little extra time and effort to focus on the best way to tackle daily tasks, their companies can become unstoppable.

Ratings of fictional conference calls supported the conclusion that investors feel better about companies whose bosses employ these five little words more often.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

Far better, Friedman argues, to emulate forward - thinking companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Calgary's BluEra, which offer unlimited vacation policies to emphasize that it's OK to take as much — or as little — time off, as long as employees get their jobs done.

While Schnatter has discussed his uniquely homespun hiring process before as well as his employee management strategy, this latest act should serve as a heartrending example of how great leaders, with a little empathy, can transform their companies into communities.

As Canadian Business found out when it conducted this year's reputation survey, people generally believe that RIM is an innovative, well run company, but they have little emotional connection to the brand itself.

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

The company says it should be a little bit better in low - light settings, with faster focus and a more vibrant HDR mode as well.

I would go out of my way to paint company achievements in ways that would make me look better, even if I had little or nothing to do with said accomplishment.

Ideas to make your company more friendly to a broader range of talent can appear «radical» at first, but given a little thought, they turn out to be just good sense.

On the other hand, if Dorsey is right and managing a startup is indeed like managing a theatrical company, it probably is a good idea to give the performers and stagehands a little love.

Some will want a solid, well - managed company that requires little oversight while others may specialize in turnaround situations and will look to buy a business that they can tweak to turn a profit.

The co-founder behind Spacial, a drone company that records indoor events, knows the adage «you only get one chance to make a first impression,» a little too well.

Take apart a GoPro, Djuric said, and you'll also find chips from a variety of vendors, including Texas Instruments and Qualcomm as well a chip from Ambarella, a little known company whose stock is up over 90 percent in just the last 12 months.

Execs have little incentive to act in the best interests of their companies because of the way they are paid, creating an ugly economic chain reaction.

Too many companies have too little direction on their social - media marketing — that is, other than «build engagement» and hope for the best.

While it is better to buy a low - P / E company over a high one, in today's low - return environment paying a little more for a high - yielding investment can make sense.

Alternatively, those relationships can amount to little more than a series of missed opportunities if business owners fail to recognize the potential contribution that well - seasoned accounting advisers can make — especially to companies whose internal financial departments may be woefully understaffed.

The best companies to work for know the importance of letting employees loosen up a little.

A little debt can be good for a company's earnings.

While contractors with specialized skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower - skilled contractors have little power to negotiate on their own and are not covered under the federal labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Several believe the company would have been better off saying little about Russian interference and note that other companies, such as Twitter, which have stayed relatively quiet on the issue, have not had to deal with as much criticism.

Compared to many other companies in the mining space, royalty companies have tended to be better allocators of capital, taking on very little debt and deploying cash reserves only at the most opportune times.

This concept might work quite well for companies like Groupon, but B2B companies or companies that need to convey complex ideas will find little success scrambling after the next shiny object that has captured the public's attention.

Many of these companies also continue to benefit from strategic land ownership near fertile basins, from improving efficiency and productivity of wells, and from maintaining little to no debt.

There has been little in the way of differentiation between a good company or a bad company, a good sector or a bad one.

Italian companies often have severance policies that exceed best European market practice, however a payment amounting to approximately 930 % of Mr. Moretti's 2016 annualised fixed remuneration, calculated with little explanation, may nonetheless deviate from shareholder expectations.

And so, I think there is very little risk in that regard but I mean, if there was something fully unanticipated that would happen, I would say that as a company, we would be fully prepared to do what was ever necessary and in the best interest of our company and our shareholders.

It will mean that financial advisors will have a place where they have a stake in the company and can sleep a little bit better at night.»

A company called Retargeter.com, which offers campaigns from as little as $ 500 per month, may be a good starting point.

Many POS systems are capable of integrating Bitcoin with ease and with little to no cost for the business, but what good is that if the company doesn't expect any sales in Bitcoin?

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, I don't think it's a tragedy that some companies had a little better ratio from one period.

Web content guru Gerry McGovern, author of «Killer Content» — one of the best books on writing copy for the web — says that one of the biggest mistakes companies make in regards to their website content is thinking that customers care one little bit about the company.

Companies of consumer staples are able to increase their prices a little faster but competition usually limits the ability and neither sector is a good hedge against inflation.

Women - led companies fared a little better: an increase from 4 % of dollars to 11 %.

Moreover, with increasing competition from other young cloud companies as well as giants like Oracle, IBM, and HP means DWRE has little room to raise prices or cut back on its marketing efforts if it wants to retain market share.

They work to secure media attention for their own work as well as for plant - based and cultured meat companies, and they have been covered in more than 480 scientific and mainstream media venues.16 Little is known about the impact of these interventions on public opinion, though it seems that raising public awareness of cultured products may be valuable, especially since the field is so new.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

Bring on the recession and, the conventional wisdom goes, those of us who have invested in enterprise software might as well close down the companies and recover what little cash we can.

3 Principles for Hiring a More Diverse Team How a little fintech company achieved gender parity (66 % women in our executive team; 53 % women in our company), established 100 % paid leave policies for mothers and fathers, and is working even harder toward better diversity.