Sentences with phrase «in a service business like»

As we've noted before, in a service business like logistics, gaining market share isn't nearly as important as gaining profitable market share.

Not exact matches

Plenty of business owners routinely work with security agencies — like the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services in the Department of Homeland Security, for instance — when the government needs special assistance in tracking down people suspected of terrorist activities.

He provides an image of an hourglass with blank lines in «know, like, trust, try, buy, repeat, refer» fields, where business owners fill in the lines with products, services, processes and campaigns.

Even if you're not in the customer service business, there's one clear way to please your customers: act like serving them is your first priority.

The turning point was McChord's decision to forgo direct sales in favor of partnering with managed service providers who resell and install Datto technology alongside other complementary IT offerings; thousands of international channel partners now market Datto products like the Siris enterprise business continuity family and the Alto small - business continuity solution.

Apple's service business, which includes businesses like the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and Apple Care, fell short of its ambitious targets for the quarter, despite hitting fresh records in the App Store over the holidays.

«Like most people in the business, my wife thought I was crazy, wasting time and money on domains,» says Hoffman, who lives in Palo Alto, California, and also runs PPCIncome.com, a review site for domain parking services.

Amex a less used credit card service within the small business world sponsored and promoted the shopping day and offered benefits like marketing collateral, ads on Facebook, and branded shopping bags for small businesses who utilized Amex as a service and participated in the day.

The popularity of Pokémon Go threatens companies like Foursquare, which has a service called Swarm offering coupons and prizes to customers who «check in» at participating venues, and social e-commerce sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, which many businesses use as a vehicle to offer discount deals.

Costing $ 100 for two people in cities like Bangkok and $ 225 at London Heathrow, Solve's service has appealed to business travelers and older travelers using travel agents, Vess says.

She likes IHS Markit (info), a London - based firm that provides business services to the energy industry, among others, and which is poised for a boost in business from oil and gas clients emerging from their slump.

Whitman said that the spinoff of HPE's IT services business will be finalized in March 2017, so its likely more restructurings may be coming as HPE tries to keep up in a fast changing technology market against cloud computing giants like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

It won't replace reading news sites like Business Insider and The Wall Street Journal, but I can access and read it in full when I'm underground and without cell service, which is key.

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.

In five years, the website they created has grown from a niche audio service for techno musicians to a web platform hosting audio channels from the White House and Harvard Business Review and launching hit singles from the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Beyoncé.

Just like in business in general, when you offer your clients a «done for you» service, even at a much higher price than general consulting, you will get a percentage of your clients who will be delighted to just have it done, and who will gladly pay much more for that privilege.

However, where services are available, crowdshipping can allow small businesses like yours to offer demand shipping at an affordable price, giving you a competitive advantage, says Kevin Mehrabi, the chief executive officer and founder of Runner, a crowdshipping service in Los Angeles.

If you like, you can create a separate web page for each major town in your service area, and then fill that page with useful information that relates to your business somehow.

Designed with small businesses in mind, Elavon provides services like in - store and online payment terminals that support credit and debit cards, electronic checks, and electronic gift cards.

A tightening of the company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing in 35 percent of new business, helped fuel the growth.

It therefore puts insurers, like UnitedHealth Group, which owns a PBM through its Optum health - services business but not a vast store base, directly in its line of fire.

«It's like a roadmap for your company,» says Victor Butcher, of Butcher Financial Services in Memphis, Tenn., a former president of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants» Memphis Chapter who advises small businesses.

Advertising on Facebook is ideal for companies selling lifestyle products, such as designer bathtubs, or service businesses that target potential customers with clear behavioral patterns, like being a Justin Bieber fan or showing an interest in haute couture.

I've got a story in the new issue of Canadian Business magazine about the rise of cloud gaming — or online services that act much like Netflix do in that they sell streaming access to the same sorts of video games you'd find on your Xbox or Playstation.

That's important to remember, because while many corporate applications are moving to a public cloud like Amazon (amzn) Web Services or Microsoft (msft) Azure, we are still early in the cloud era and many businesses still want to control their own infrastructure for some jobs.

All - in - one services like Infusionsoft, which generates personalized marketing software for small businesses, and Yodle, which maintains a business's online presence, help small businesses with everything from appointment - setting to social media.

In an interview with Vox, CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday defended himself from those — like Apple CEO Tim Cook — who have criticized Facebook's business model of selling its users to advertisers, rather than selling products and services to users.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

The report, which cites an unnamed source, said the private equity groups are interested in all of HPE, not just individual business units, like the IT services business group that was spun off and merged with Computer Sciences in May.

For Dell, a giant business technology company is better suited to thrive in a rapidly changing technology landscape where businesses are increasingly buying less data center hardware and instead renting computing capacity from big cloud computing providers, like Amazon Web Services (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

In April, Microsoft said it integrated some of Sunrise's features into its Outlook app that made it possible for users to sync business meetings and tasks between Outlook and other services like Facebook (fb) and Evernote.

This is because 50 percent of every dollar a professional service business spends is in employee salaries, not counting contractors or payroll - related costs like taxes and insurance.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen, after getting started as a services business that wrote operating system software for the then - nascent PC industry, transitioned to selling application software like MS Word and Excel in shrink - wrapped boxes.

It's a particularly acute problem for the founders of businesses that deal in physical products, like Leota and Washington D.C. - based coffee shop chain Peregrine Espresso, though service - based companies, like Mattermark, a San Francisco - based software startup, certainly aren't immune to cash - flow issues.

Walker even credits ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft for changing the nature of business travel, specifically the willingness of people to stay in hotels a little farther away from their business.

More than half of small businesses in the U.S. are owned and run by women, and those ventures have disproportionately adopted cloud services like email marketing, SEO & SEM services and online billing and bookkeeping services.

Virtual Value Steve Wilkinghoff, a chartered accountant and author of Found Money: Simple Strategies for Uncovering the Hidden Profit and Cash Flow in Your Business, offers insight on the value of online services like Keen.com that provide «virtual» experts — and what to watch out for.

Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

The result is an increase in carve - out deals, add - on acquisitions, and more firms building their own businesses around assets like wireless towers or servicing mortgages.

Services like Amazon's Subscribe and Save allow business owners to save certain percentages on ongoing purchases, which could free up a considerable amount of money in the long - run.

With services like PayPal and developments in Internet marketing, it has become feasible for practically anyone to open a business online.

Your market research should have revealed more than do you like my product or service but really how and where does your target market buy,» says Suzan Barnett, a consultant and area director of the Small Business Development Center at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.

That put services like Arora's One Flat Fee and Ottawa - based Best Value Real Estate, which promises to list a home on the MLS for just $ 109, in business.

While in August Trump told the online publication Circa that he would like to see «a carve - out of sorts for our small - business owners,» that may be too late for entrepreneurs who were already well down the road raising salaries or switching workers to hourly non-exempt, says Jacqueline Breslin, director of human capital services at TriNet, an HR outsourcing company.

«Investments in mobile search, mobile cloud, location - based services and consumer produces like mobile games are helping to build a moat around Baidu's business.»

You can use sites like Foursquare to reward loyal customers who check - in to your business, and services like Wildfire to help you run promotional applications.

Digital giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple (AAPL), and Microsoft (MSFT) now compete against each other in up to 11 business areas, including content development, artificial intelligence, e-commerce marketplaces, hardware devices, messaging, financial services, and advertising.

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

Last May, Sears announced it was putting Craftsman, along with other iconic brands like Kenmore and DieHard, as well as its Sears Home Services repair business, up for sale, in an effort to sell off other attractive assets to maintain financial liquidity.