Sentences with phrase «how hard sales»

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It gets even harder if you hope to take advantage of seasonal clearance sales, since you have to guess how big your child will be months from now.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.&rSales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.&rSales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.&rsales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

I know how hard it is to make it, finding capital, figuring out operations, sales and marketing.

I spent more time explaining the strategy and working with him so he could understand how creating an environment where sales can occur is more powerful than pushing things through as hard as you can.

Those quarterly numbers will give the most detailed view yet of how hard the company has been hit by declining sales.

She learns how to organize her cookie sale, build a goal, and work hard — skills that help her accomplish all she'll set out to do in life.

General Manager of Sales and Category, Lynley Radford, says sourcing certified organic milk gets harder every year, and having walked up and down many a dairy track to talk to farmers about converting, she appreciates how difficult it is for producers to get organic certification.

«My winemaker friends were always telling me how hard their glass bottles are to photograph and with direct - to - consumer online sales growing, these producers needed a fast, easy, and affordable solution to make the bottles look as good as what's inside tastes.

Even if Spurs do raise a huge amount of cash from Kane's sale as Don Balon suggest, it's hard to imagine how much they'd have to spend to sign a striker anywhere near as good as the one they'd be losing.

One of the best racers was a British woman named Audrey Sale - Barker, and a description of her from a contemporary account (1929) is fascinating — if only to see how this rather pale and ethereal young thing contrasts with the sturdy, hard - schussing women downhillers of today: «Audrey Sale - Barker was very tall, extremely slim... with pale honey - colored hair, a vague, dreamy expression, and when she skied I can only describe her as a sleepwalker.

As with all rumours at this time of the year it's hard to know how much truth there is to the reports, especially given that the story has yo - yo'd for a number of months with United said to be close, Atletico saying he's not for sale, rinse and repeat.

In it, I discuss Houston ISD's long and troubling history of turning a blind eye to illegal campus junk food — even after the implementation of Smart Snacks — and how continued junk food sales will only make the job of our wonderful new school food director, Betti Wiggins, exponentially harder.

For example, a salesperson's total sales might depend not only on how hard he works but also on the weather during a given week.

Believe me, I know how hard it is to not stock up on tops like these every time you pass an Anthropologie sale, but that's how I got myself in this mess to begin with.

You'd be so proud of how hard I didn't hit the Loeffler Randall sample sale.

A lot of sites offer decent quality dating profiles for sale, but they're priced so ridiculously high that it's hard to imagine how a matchmaking website owner would make any money.

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She is the author and co-author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).

But it's hard to see how Cadillac is going to make sales inroads by pricing itself above superior — at least on paper — German cars.

However, considering just how far the new Ford F - 150 has advanced ahead of its GM and Ram competitors, it's hard to see the next Titan making any serious sales dents.

Their sales reporting is clumsy and harder to use (seriously... I just want a total number of each title sold... I don't need to know how many I sold on what day — you do not endear yourself to me by making me do math to update my spreadsheet having books sold that lags 2 days behind, then having to add Yesterday's Sales and Today's Sales if I want a semi accurate pictsales reporting is clumsy and harder to use (seriously... I just want a total number of each title sold... I don't need to know how many I sold on what day — you do not endear yourself to me by making me do math to update my spreadsheet having books sold that lags 2 days behind, then having to add Yesterday's Sales and Today's Sales if I want a semi accurate pictSales and Today's Sales if I want a semi accurate pictSales if I want a semi accurate picture).

So, as they steadily lose ground, no matter how hard they try, in digital sales, it's no surprise that AAP members are doubling down where indie e-book authors can't compete: in bookstores.

For me, I think distribution and sales would be too difficult, particularly considering I want to reach the schools market, and I already know how they work, which is hard for me to access (while not actually «self - publishing» before I was responsible for placing a book about how to become a policewoman in Australia into educational outlets at secondary and tertiary levels and it was not only hard work but incredibly time and money consuming too, so if someone can do that side for me at a reasonable cost, I'd always prefer it.)

It's not hard to see how someone else owning the sales rights to your book could cause big problems.

Amazon talks a real good talk about how lower ebook prices mean more sales, but when they're going out of their way to make it hard for customers to buy Hachette ebooks, it's the authors who're losing the sales.

It's easy to get desensitized by B&N's numerous sales and the ever - decreasing prices of Nooks to the point where it's not hard to overlook just how inexpensive Nooks are considering the prices of the competition.

So having come to the conclusion that this self - publishing business was going to be a lot harder than I had thought, I submitted my novel to a boutique digital publisher that does very well in my genre, thinking about how nice it would be for someone else to worry about book sales and visibility.

Now what would possibly work is selling people the physical book AND including rights to download the ebook as well, contrary to what I am sure the publisher would tell you, Every download wouldnt be a lost sale or lost profit, because how many people are logically going to buy the hard cover and ebook as well?

The reason for lack of clarity is that Amazon owned Audible have never released any of its sales data and as the company now accounts for such a large proportion of the market it's hard to assess accurately how much their contribution has changed the overall growth in audio sales.

With free format conversion, registration, distribution, sales reports, and unlimited updates, Smashwords is turning traditional book publishing on its head — all for a modest fee per sale that any author, regardless of how he or she is publishing, would be hard - pressed to beat.

They mumble about how it is too hard to track e-book sales.

It's hard to see how the publisher is losing «real» sales on these titles, since the reader can't purchase them as ebooks, or, in the case of the out - of - print books, in any format that benefits the publisher and author at all.

How effective these were in getting sales is hard to tell, but it was added exposure.

I have no hard numbers for July yet, but from the Amazon charts alone... yes, the new cover was a very good idea and I can see how a good cover will influence sales.

Since the Nook Color's launch last year, Barnes & Noble hasn't released official sales numbers for the device, so it's hard to see just how many women have purchased one.

If you expect modest sales through retail outlets and know how to reach those outlets and get them to order your book (a harder task than it appears) you may well be a good candidate for self publishing of the type I have described or for a Vanity Press.

When asked how his data was compiled for digital sales as compared to print sales (where more direct access to numbers from Diamond Distributors and bookstore sales are shared with ICv2), Griepp said much of what they based their numbers on came from interviews and surveys with industry players as neither publishers or sales outlets will release hard numbers for analysis.

When you put in efforts to boost your sales for your book, it's hard to see how impactful your initiatives are if you don't have a comparative measure for book sales.

You can read Joanna Penn's latest income report here which clearly shows how her 6 figure income is a result of sheer hard work and small sales over a long period of time.

NovelRank watches SALES RANK fluctuations, and thus at very good rankings, it is very hard to determine a sale (it's a very big guess to say how many books must be sold in an hour to maintain say a rank of 100).

Add to this that the sales numbers are increasing exponentially with high ranks and it gets clear how hard it is for a new title to climb into the charts.

So many indie blogs and groups out there today focus solely on how to get more sales, write faster, push harder, be more, do more.

No matter how fantastic your written content is, without an enticing cover design you will find it much harder to drive sales and create a positive brand image if nobody is motivated to buy your eBook.

There weren't hard figures, but the author of the piece did comment that there was evidence to believe that the increase in sales was because of Borders and how ironic and sad that was.

It's a hard look at how vulnerable the world of digital sales can be to doubt.

I think we are only at the beginning of this re-shaping of publishers but the first big change we are seeing is in how we think about the editorial department (though some changes are hitting home hard in sales and marketing too).

(I sat a few chairs away from Data Guy during this presentation, and I wondered how hard he had to bite his tongue when the Nielsen presenter seemingly decided to arbitrarily add 25 % to her figures to «account» for the missing ebook and self - published sales.

It's hard to see how pricing a Kindle version of a long - ago purchase at a discount to the stand - alone digital copy could earn publishers more, but the reasoning holds that attaching a electronic copy to a print purchase for a couple extra bucks could still drum up some attachment sales that didn't exist before.

Obviously in a very small company or private sale this becomes much harder / impossible as it can't be floated in any meaningful way, but versions of this wisdom of crowd type effect can be done by approaching a few outside parties and asking them what they would pay / how they would value it (similar to asking a few estate agents for valuations of a house before a private sale) to at least get some benchmark estimates of what similar private players might pay.

My concern is, many Realtors are just trying to make a living wage right now, there have got to be just as many Lawyers out there looking for the next great opportunity... I really believe it is going to be the unfortunate Realtors that regardless of how well (or poorly) they performed on the short sale, that are going to get sued because the Seller will have get some sort of financial demand down the road and will have long forgotten all of the hard work and disclosing the Realtor did on their behalf during the short sale process.