Sentences with phrase «industry than other businesses»

The adversarial nature of the legal system makes law firms a different type of industry than other businesses.

Not exact matches

To test your idea, look at other businesses in your industry to see if your side hustle is better than or different from what's already being done.

Perhaps more than any other single policy of the last seven years, it was the nearly $ 1 trillion from the two American Reinvestment and Recovery Acts that played a major role in assisting those industries, and bolstering the economic health of small business owners.

But more than small - business owners in any other industry, those in retail trade will have to adapt — if they haven't already — to a world that is more reliant on the internet.

In the wake of the last recession, one industry seemed to rebound faster than most: businesses that sell products and services to other businesses.

Those in the retail trade industry are also more likely than small - business owners in other industries to advertise on Facebook.

You can't disrupt an industry simply by doing something «a little cheaper» than competitors — that's neither a rationale for starting a new business nor a sustainable business advantage, as others will simply do the same thing.

I have no business experience other than my sales career in the printing industry.

The coalition is a cluster of more than 50 businesses, academic institutions and other organizations focusing on the state's flexible electronics industry.

If this were true then Blackrock's funds would quickly go out of business since their cost would be far higher than others in the industry.

«While we are pleased the industry continues growing at faster rates than other sectors of the economy, we could be growing much faster, creating more new jobs and businesses, if Washington addressed the tax, spending and regulatory uncertainty plaguing the small business community in a meaningful way,» said IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira.

Apple described it as a «patent troll with no active business other than patent litigation», which had previously demanded payment from «everyone from truckers and farmers to roofers and dairies... Apple invents products that revolutionise industries, and relies upon the US patent system to protect our innovation.»

In no other industry is this more relevant than in the small and mid-size business IT services field.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Though communication is a core area of business management, it's more critical in some industries than others.

Other than news and features under some 20 classifications, Fnbnews.com provides business - critical information related to policy & regulations, special reports, analysis, F&B projects, marketing & technology as well as international developments that impact the industry.

Although the food business suffered less from the recession than other industries, many specialty food producers — including Ramar Foods — had to tighten their belts at the beginning of 2009.

Mr Haddock said the wine business has longer cycles than many other industries and CHAMP had needed patience.

New Yorkers - both individuals and businesses - that purchase health insurance currently pay more than $ 3.1 billion in health taxes through the Covered Lives Assessment; the (HCRA) hospital services surcharge; the Insurance Department Section 332 industry - wide assessments that fund Department operations and are also suballocated to other agencies and programs; and the 1.75 percent premium tax.

In an August 2010 survey by Symantec, of 1580 private businesses in industries such as energy, banking, health care, and other areas of critical infrastructure, more than half reported politically motivated cyber attacks, averaging 10 attacks in the past 5 years.

Critics insisted that his lack of experience running a technology concern would leave him at a «huge disadvantage,» wrote Doug Garr in a 1999 book about Gerstner's tenure, because the computer business «moved at a faster pace than other industries; competition came from... fanatics who thrived in the often quirky and murky world of digital chaos.»

None other than Andrea Comer; Andrea Comer is Executive Director of The Connecticut Business & Industry Association's Education Foundation.

I also check out forums and blogs of other industries where the businesses might have bigger budgets than the typical dealer has.

But publishing and agenting are no different than any other business or industry.

More than I think, any other industry, anywhere, in any business, indie authors really love to work together, to be happy for each other's successes, to offer help when it is needed, to give advice (and ask for it).

If social media has taught us anything, it's that you probably shouldn't be posting anything other than puppy pictures if you're in any kind of business or industry.

That said, the books publishing industry is substantially smaller than the films business, and while Juggernaut might be learning some of the tricks of the trade from other IP businesses, it's unlikely to operate at the same scale.

Pinnacle looks for firms with strong balance sheets since small firms have fewer buffers in a downturn than large ones do, management teams that do an outstanding job of allocating capital including their own, and understandable businesses which tends to keep him out of tech, bio-tech and other high obsolescence industries.

Some industries see more of an impact from business credit than others.

You will also need to show your previous successes in the restaurant or food services industry, especially since restaurants are more likely to fail than many other types of new businesses.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

There are specific industries, which are considered higher risk than others — another reason you should become well acquainted with your business credit profile.

We serve companies who are leaders in their industry; more businesses than any other credit union in Massachusetts.

Financial, economic, business, and other developments affecting issuers in the real estate industry will have a greater effect on the Fund, and if securities of the real estate industry fall out of favor, the Fund could underperform, or its NAV may be more volatile than, funds that have greater industry diversification.

In a study from Manipal University of Indian women entrepreneurs in the textile and apparel industry, they found that their desire to fulfill their dream of being an entrepreneur is what motivated them to start a business, more so than other motivational triggers.

The country's economic recovery has been more evident in the auto sales industry than just about any other business sector.

Consumers complain about debt collectors more than any other business in financial services industry.

For terminal value to be anything other than liquidation value we are implicitly assuming that the competitive advantage of the business will last for ever i.e. there will never be perfect competition in this industry which brings the return on capital to the same level as cost of capital..

In fact, financial institutions are reportedly hit by security incidents a staggering 300 times more frequently than businesses in other industries.

Patagonia, which also was a big part of the battle to move the Outdoor Retailers Show, speaks for much of the recreation industry when they note that they are bigger than coal and a lot of other businesses that bring money into monuments:

It is the perfect storm for bicycle commuting, and the bike business is probably withstanding the ongoing economic turmoil a lot better than many other industries.

(4) Such cartelization is certain to lead to higher prices to the public (see, to cite only one example among many, many, what happened when a handful of US title insurers replaced 100,000 US real estate lawyers — a «dysfunctional» per the State of California and «invidious» per the Supreme Court of Iowa industry «in which the public pays too much» per the State of California (about four times more than what the lawyers used to charge) while delivering services that are «shit» per an employee of a US title insurer who used to be an independent lawyer until she and all the other real estate lawyers in her city in Florida were put out of business by predatory pricing that lasted only as long as it took to kill the lawyers).

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).

Until the legal industry finds a business model other than cost - plus — and until their organizational method moves beyond the assignment of bodies to tasks — they're unlikely to use the sort of systematic business processes that prevail in the rest of the commercial world.

If you keep your claims and accidents lower than other businesses in your industry, you will receive a credit, lowering your premium.

Most credit cards, banks and payment processors that work with the sex industry require higher fees than they would for other online businesses or tech startups.

How do I handle requests for such references?Thank you so much for your help!CherylCHERYL M. EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: [phone] Cell Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages of evidentiary documents for litigation purposes and for inclusion in electronic databaseso Coordinated document review assignments with attorneys at local depository and at other sites across the USo Retrieved, reviewed and coded documents in Concordance and Summation legal databaseso Prepared memoranda and spreadsheets providing detailed analysis of discovery materials • Aided attorneys and support staff with processing and preparation of personal injury claims and litigationo Conducted legal research and drafted pleadingso Conducted supplementary online research for additional documents and information pertinent to litigationo Assisted with preparation of correspondence to clients and referring attorneyso Contacted clients for additional information needed in case preparation, litigation, and potential settlementso Prepared and input case intakes and referrals into databaseLaw School, AlabamaStudent Intern, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), August 1996 — June 1997 • Participated in law school clinical program under third - year law student practice rule (as authorized by Alabama Supreme Court) o Assisted attorneys and advocates in cases involving mentally ill patients confined to state mental health facilitieso Interviewed clients in person (at state facilities) and over the phoneo Worked with clients, attorneys, and social workers to investigate and resolve issues concerning involuntary confinement and treatmento Aided in legal research on an appellate brief submitted to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (ruling granted in favor of our client) Faculty Research Assistant for Library Services, Bounds Law Library, March 1996 — June 1997 • Prepared research and teaching materials for law school faculty; worked 20 hours per week while matriculating 10 - 15 hours per semester) o Investigated copyright issues related to procuring and reproducing texts for academic useo Conducted legal research using WESTLAW, LEXIS and the InternetADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCEManufacturing Company (MC), Montgomery, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant and Cost Analyst, Materials Purchasing Department, April 1999 — September 2001 • Assisted materials buyers in negotiating and preparing commodities contracts between raw materials suppliers and MC for manufacturing plants in the US and Mexicoo Assisted Legal Department at MC's corporate headquarters with coordination and preparation of documents for litigationo Notified and educated suppliers about MC's freight - on - board policy and its corresponding Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) provisions; result was the reduction of freight claims for both the company and its supplierso Prepared contracts and purchase orders for raw materials and capital projects involving plant maintenanceo Solicited price quotations from current vendors and established Excel spreadsheet format which simplified quote submission process and allowed MC to track and compare usage volumes and costs over timeo Prepared and analyzed cost reports used by materials buyers and production planners in purchasing decisions, including cost reductions, materials consolidation, and selection of vendorso Acted as liaison between vendors and the Purchasing, Transportation and Accounting Departments on issues concerning inbound freight, commercial carriers, and payment terms for commodities, resulting in reductions in freight costs and greater payment discounts for raw materialso Established online databases and printed directories for the Purchasing Department, allowing buyers to have easier and faster access to current vendor informationo Completed Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance project, which involved data collection and communication with MC's past, present, and potential materials suppliers and service providersNot - For - Profit Organization, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Combined Federal Campaign, September 1998 — January 1999 • Aided Campaign Director with 1998 Federal Campaigns (CFCs) in City 1 and City 2, which together generated nearly $ 700,000 for more than 1,000 local, national and international charitieso Prepared weekly reports on donations using WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel and dBase IVo Wrote script for Talent Showcase at City 1's 1998 CFC Kickoffo Assisted Director with merger of the City 1 and City 2 CFCs in 1999Regional Bank, AlabamaAdministrative Assistant, Year 2000 (Y2K) Department, March — June 1998 • Worked with Vice President of Corporate Projects on short - term project for the bank's Y2K Departmento Analyzed and processed data on Y2K readiness for all branches of Bank throughout the southeastern USo Organized meetings for personnel of Banko Communicated with vendors of computer hardware, software, and office equipment to request information on Y2K complianceo Prepared compliance files for Federal Reserve auditso Prepared in - house memoranda and reports using Microsoft Word and ExcelRecord / Music Promotion Company, AlabamaRecord Pool Co-Founder; Office Manager, September 1990 — December 1991 • Co-founded record pool to enhance promotion of music in Alabama and the southeastern USo Procured and distributed records from major and independent labels for club, radio and mobile disc jockeyso Coordinated jointly sponsored promotional events with record companies, radio stations and clubso Designed, wrote, and published bi-weekly reports and brochures to inform the music industry of the progress and popularity of music and performers in the region, with specific focus on the Alabama music sceneMajor University, AlabamaGraduate Research Assistant, AUM Department of Marketing, June 1989 — August 1990 • Worked 13 - 20 hours per week as a research assistant to Marketing faculty while carrying a full course load in the MBA programo Analyzed consumer surveys used in academic researcho Assisted Conference Chairperson with coordination for Atlantic Marketing Association (AMA) annual meeting (October 1989) o Co-authored five - year index and classification of AMA Proceedings (published Fall 1991) EDUCATIONLaw School, AlabamaJuris Doctor (JD), 1997 • Scholarshipso Seybourn H. Lynne Scholarship, 1996 - 97o Dexter C. Hobbs Memorial Scholarship, 1995 - 96o E. W. Godbey Memorial Scholarship, 1994 - 95 • Honorso Who's Who Among American Law School Students, 1996 - 94o Arthur Davis Shores Award, 1997 • Activitieso Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Manager, 1996 - 97 Southern Regional Competition, Second Place National Competition, Eighth Placeo John A. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Spring 1996o Black Law Students Association Delegate, BLSA National Convention, 1997 Co-Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1996 - 97 Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, 1995 - 96 BLSA President's Award, 1996 and 1997o American Bar Association, 1996 - 97 Entertainment and Sports Industries Forum Intellectual Property Section Law Student Divisiono LAWS Student Group Leader, 1995 - 96Major University, AlabamaMaster of Business Administration (MBA), 1990Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), 1988 (Major: Marketing — Advertising and Promotion Track) • Honorso Dean's List • Activitieso National Student Advertising Competition Team, 1988 - 90 Seventh District Competition: Third Place, 1990o Marketing Club, 1987 - 90 Vice President — Career Development, 1988 - 89o Public Relations / Advertising (PR / AD) Club, 1988 - 90 Charter Member, 1988 Active in fund - raising and membership driveso Theater Guild, 1988 - 90 Screening Committee, 1989REFERENCESAvailable upon request

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Recognized sales team leader who consistently exceeds company sales goals Responsible for more than $ 18 million in annual revenue Developed and implemented strategic business plans to exceed revenue goals Conducted market analysis and competitive intelligence to increase company efficacy Managed, trained, and reviewed sales team offering guidance and best practices Generated significant new business through networking, cold calling, and other tactics Provided excellent customer service resulting in significant repeat business Built strong, long - term relationships with clients, piers, and industry leaders Authored and executed sales presentations for varied products and audiences Represented company and products at industry events Served as a liaison and advisor to senior leadership

Professional Duties & Responsibilities Recognized sales team leader who consistently exceeds company sales goals Responsible for more than $ 18 million in annual revenue Developed and implemented strategic business plans to exceed revenue goals Conducted market analysis and competitive intelligence to increase company efficacy Managed, trained, and reviewed sales team offering guidance and best practices Generated significant new business through networking, cold calling, and other tactics Provided excellent customer service resulting in significant repeat business and referrals Built strong, long - term relationships with clients, piers, and industry leaders Authored and executed sales presentations for varied products and audiences Represented company and products at industry events Served as a liaison and advisor to senior leadership