Sentences with phrase «increasingly challenging market»

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, says sales activity expanded in May as more buyers overcame the increasingly challenging market conditions prevalent in many areas.

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«For us, this is an increasingly challenging demographic to reach with traditional means,» Sabrina Caluori, HBO's vice-president of social media and marketing, told Mashable.

The challenge of standing out above the parity that exists in B2B marketing messaging and content will become increasingly difficult.

Biofuels researchers are increasingly thinking about how the energy market is changing, which challenges them to balance the basic science of new fuels with a more holistic view of the most commercially viable ways to produce them.

The indie market has become increasingly challenging as small films without recognizable names are having a tougher time luring the public away from their Netflix queues.

Unfortunately, the same labor - market trends that have made math and science skills increasingly valuable to students may make it increasingly difficult to attract teachers with the talent and training necessary to address the challenge.

In February 2011 the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report challenging our excessive focus on the four - year college pathway, arguing that we need to create additional pathways that combine rigorous academics with strong technical education to equip the majority of young people with the skills and credentials to succeed in our increasingly challenging labor market.

In today's job market (and tomorrow's), employers increasingly look for collaborators, critical thinkers, and creative problem - solvers, all key skills for addressing the complex challenges of the 21st century.

«In a retail environment that's increasingly challenging for new and emerging authors, digital publication and promotion allows us to continue to encourage author discovery and growth, bring books to market more quickly, leverage popular digital trends and offer authors an outlet for their nontraditional and ancillary streams.»

With an infinite number of books and authors vying for attention from a finite number of media outlets, book marketing is becoming increasingly more challenging.

In particular, the challenges of mathematical and scientific formulae need to be solved, and technology providers need to respond to the educational market with increasingly cost - effective, end - user focused and school environment appropriate solutions.

If this recovery falters due to renewed weakness in Europe, the debt bubble in China bursting, or increased trade frictions, it will become increasingly challenging for markets to climb higher.

This private lending strategy drove the secondary mortgage market to greater heights, which in turn led to banks offering increasingly risky loans to increasingly credit - challenged buyers.

Perhaps what's really exciting is the idea of effectively locking up a franchise (or maybe sharing it with just one / two other large operators)-- as I noted, small operators will be increasingly challenged in terms of the investment required in today's market, but they may also have real difficulty even attracting a potential franchise partner.

«With increasingly complex global markets posing new challenges daily, it's our view that a systematic approach to monitoring and adjusting portfolio allocations across asset classes with a forward - looking view on market and economic conditions is no longer an option, it's a necessity,» said Brent Smith, chief investment officer for FTMAS and co-portfolio manager of the Fund.

This year's survey will take place against a background of intense competition among leading law firms to secure coveted panel spots in an increasingly demanding legal market, a challenge made even tougher by new competition from the likes of alternative service providers and accounting firms.

At a time when supply chains are being challenged by volatility in markets, increasingly complex regulation, public scrutiny and digital disruption, her in - depth knowledge of trade, transport and commodities markets is valued and relied on by clients within and beyond Australia.

For them it must be assumed that all three criteria, namely pricing, speed / currency and optimum quality / innovation are challenges to address and are why they look increasingly less attractive as a market for publishers.

To give one particularly controversial example of this increasingly common form of dispute, tobacco companies have challenged regulations on cigarette marketing in a few different countries as violating their rights as foreign investors, even though the regulations are clearly designed to promote public health and not to extract value from them.

As a former general counsel and chief executive officer, Kent counsels the leaders of Am Law 100, 200, Global 100 and leading specialty firms on the challenges and opportunities they face, in an increasingly competitive industry, as a result of the globalization, consolidation, specialization, and segmentation of the market for legal services.

Marketing departments are being challenged to come up with creative ways to shift lawyer mindsets, given the increasingly competitive legal landscape and the change - resistant culture that prevails at most firms.

«General counsel today are faced with an increasingly difficult array of challenges from growing data volumes, pressure to operate like a business unit, and visibility into managing budgets and cases,» said Robert Berger, Catalyst's vice president of marketing.

Striking that happy balance between the «Law Factory» and the craftsman's workshop will be the challenge, particularly as you will be competing increasingly with some highly capitalised, well managed and cleverly marketed legal service providers, along with other law firms.

But there are challenges — some commercial, some operational and some legal, in an increasingly complex and regulated market.

Embrace new challenges One of the challenges that come with an increasingly crowded travel insurance market, is the new number of options that agents have to be educated about.

«The market's flooded with products and startups are increasingly challenged to break through the noise,» founder Ryan Hoover says.

But a new report shows that while Apple has continued to eat the lion's share of the high - end profits, it's also starting to scoop up an increasingly large portion of the low - end phone market, which could challenge the very existence of smaller Android brands.

With Protect, Ring hopes to potentially challenge Nest, the leader in the increasingly competitive market of home security products.

A sign of labour market challenges can be found in job vacancy rates, which rose in Australia in 2015 and 2016, suggesting employers find it increasingly difficult to attract and retain talented workers.

This challenge has grown more difficult over the last three years, as the recession forced millions of people onto the job market and as employers increasingly turned to applicant tracking systems to manage all of their job openings and the sea of candidates applying for them.

The business problems that arise from this structure are not new, but new trends — increased consumer awareness and expectations, the rise of information technology and the rapid diversification and maturation of Canada's real estate market among them — increasingly challenge the DIY agent who hopes to be successful.

«[This] data suggests that while home shoppers are increasingly having success finding homes, realtor.com data on inventory indicates that home shoppers have few options to choose from and continue to face a challenging market,» Hale says.

«A stronger education program will better prepare salespeople for our increasingly complex real estate market and the challenges that come with helping families through the biggest purchase of their lives.»

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