Sentences with phrase «homes and businesses do»

What sort of homes and businesses do you sell?

In practice, cities with dense populations and high economic values benefit, while rural areas with fewer homes and businesses do not.

Not exact matches

To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five - year payment terms (the latter a reward for years of solid financial management).

«To hear how a veteran came home and got a job in a franchise system and was able to buy [his or her] first home... or started a new franchised business and is now hiring other veterans... that's the reason we do this work.»

Small Businesses Do It Better was a competition winner in StartupNation's 2012 Home - Based 100, and has been highlighted on MSN Money, in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, GeekWire, BizSugar, Business2Community, Target Local, StartupNation, The Shark Tank, Quirky, Edison Awards, Barbara Corcoran's Facebook page, Mark Cuban's Twitter feed, and various other websites.

If you're working at home, your homeowners policy doesn't cover these risks for your business activities, though endorsements and riders can sometimes be added to cover some risks.

When he started his business, which sells high - end homes and properties, he was advised to form it as an LLC, which he did.

«A majority of my work in attending a conference is done before I even leave home,» notes conference - goer Dennis Yu, co-founder and CEO of BlitzLocal.com, which provides Facebook advertising for brands and local businesses.

The low cost of capital, over the same period, did not help business investments either; they increased at an average annual rate of 0.8 percent because the poor sales outlook at home did not require large expansions of production capacities, and exports were increasingly sourced from overseas factory outlets.

Second, if it really is necessary, when doing business overseas, to engage in practices that wouldn't be allowed back home, are you at least doing what you can to a) minimize the frequency of such violations and b) working, in at least some small way, to improve standards in the local business community?

The reality, however, is that these on - demand platforms are doing a great job at supplying needed work to the unskilled workforce (i.e., delivery, transportation, etc.), however for skilled small business owners («SMBs»)-- like in the home services sector — the jobs are low paying and the clients are «owned» by the platforms themselves.

Is a 20 - year employee who does just enough to get by, criticizes you and your business at work and at home, and often undermines your decisions more loyal than a 1 - year employee who genuinely embraces where you want to go, and works hard every day to help you and your company succeed?

While Australian companies in some of these industries are restricted to setting up shop in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, others, such as hotel chains and operators of care homes, can do business anywhere in China.

The retired couple from Eastham, Mass., both 66 years old, have done pretty well for themselves, with a classic home on Cape Cod and a successful business they just sold last year.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

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The majority of home business owners do not have the advantage of elaborate offices or elegant storefronts and showrooms to wow prospects and impress customers.

He did not disclose an exact figure on the wearables business, but Maestri said wearables and home products accounted for 90 percent of growth in the «other products» category.

Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet, as did most of its smaller, research - driven units, including connected - home business Nest and Google Fiber, its home broadband initiative.

These tech accessories can increase your efficiency and productivity when you do business from home.

I had gotten my education, I didn't want to borrow any more money, and during a trip home, I saw that the family business, my uncle's limo and party - bus business, could use my help.

Don't let a call center happen to your business: Cultivate a collaborative environment by insourcing talent close to home, and encourage your team members to share their big and small ideas alike.

A few days later, Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres and the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, told Business News Network she was «very worried» about skyrocketing home prices in Vancouver and Toronto because «these things generally don't end well.»

Not only does that boost the residential housing market, where «green» homes and renovations are increasingly in demand, but it also drives business - to - business demand for services such as environmental consulting and water conservation.

«I knew I wanted to go to business school when... while watching a movie at home with my wife, she asked me if I had any regrets in life and I realized that if I did not earn my executive MBA now, then I never would and that is something I would have regretted.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

Don't just use your desk — with all the other business - related paperwork that goes along with running a home office, you don't want to mix and mingle.

With mounting energy bills eating into everyone's income and increasing the cost of doing business at home, it's a good time to look into ways to economize your home business.

If you don't know what «business» to start, Enterpreneur.com is consistently packed with home - based business ideas, franchise opportunities and plenty of articles on how to start the process of finding the perfect business for you and your budding college student.

American producers have argued for decades that what people choose to do — or consume — in their own homes is their business and that government has no place in it.

Lowe's, GameStop and TJX — the discount apparel and home goods retailer that owns T.J.Maxx, HomeGoods and Marshalls — also won't do business in stores on Thanksgiving.

«Secondly, we have an overlapping footprint and we will do some restructuring in this context, but we will do this in a responsible way like ABB always does it and we will try to find a home for the very good people at GE in the growing parts of our business.»

While being able to access the same drive at home and on your Chromebook is certainly convenient — assuming the café Wi - Fi doesn't crap out — keep in mind that it's part of a clever long - term business strategy.

«HomeServices is on track to do only about 3 % of the country's home - brokerage business in 2018,» Buffett wrote in his most recent shareholders report, referring to HomeServices of America Inc., which controls Trident and two other mortgage companies.

Yelp noted that over the same earnings period, roughly 40 percent of its ads were displayed on mobile devices, underscoring the evolving ways consumers search for businesses and things to do on the fly instead of planning ahead before leaving home.

«Citing Census data on male and female commutes to work, the authors partly attributed these disadvantageous geographic patterns to female entrepreneurs» desire to live closer to their businesses, perhaps because they do the lion's share of the work at home,» reports the WSJ.

For my idea, there is no national competition other than PaperlessSolutions.com but they have a different business model (everything is done by mail) which is more concerning for many people as the scanning is happening by strangers somewhere other than their home and the prices are far more expensive.

Instead, the company collected data from other companies the people chose to do business with, and much of that business was stuff people can't get by without, like renting or owning a home.

What it does: Provides security, automation and energy - management services to homes, businesses and health - care clients

There, guests did a lot more than tweet: they shared the moments of wisdom from the conference that they can't wait to take back home and apply to their business.

But whether it's $ 100, or $ 1,000, or $ 4,000, everybody's got more stuff in their home than they need, and they can turn that into actual cash that starts their business or gives them the opportunity to do what they really want to do.

In awarding incentives to individual named executives who manage business lines, they also considered that the Wholesale Banking Group managed by Mr. Hoyt achieved its maximum business line financial goal, the Community Banking Group managed by Ms. Tolstedt met its target financial goal, and the Home and Consumer Finance Group managed by Mr. Oman did not achieve its threshold business line earnings goal.

However the home expert, Apartment Therapy founder Maxell Ryan, added that he didn't think furniture would end up being a big business for the application, telling Cimagine founder Yoni Nevo that the industry is «slow and sleepy.»

With more and more people doing business online these days, have you ever wondered if you really need to register your company in your home country?

If you're in this position, and you don't have these already, it may be easier and cheaper to find suitable quarters for your business elsewhere then try to renovate your home to accommodate your business plans.

If the only space in your home you can devote to your business is the kitchen or a corner of your basement, don't, unless your business is virtual and no one is ever, ever going to see your premises.

I've followed Steve's blog for a couple years now, and what Steve and his wife have done is exactly what I and many couples want to do: have one spouse work at home to take care of the baby and create an online business that is automated and replicates one's entire day job income!

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

You can certainly make the case that a «business» has assets and thus value so it SHOULD be included, just like our cars or even homes for that matter (which some people also don't believe should go in there since you need one to live in), but for me it's just too unstable to be accounted for on an ongoing basis.