Sentences with phrase «kept in business by»

The number of visitors to your veterinary website doesn't mean much if newcomers aren't becoming new clients and helping keep you in business by paying for routine, specialized or emergency veterinary care.

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What was once an apparently invincible business is swept under by changing times and market conditions — and the dogged determination to keep doing what's worked in the past rather than find new opportunities for a different future.

If you take the plunge and tap your retirement plan for the cash you need to start your company, there's no guarantee that your business will generate a higher return than you'd get by keeping your money in the large - cap mutual funds it's probably in right now.

I think it's time for a new approach: keep in mind that the economy has its ups and downs, and by investing wisely, you can reduce the damage a downturn can do to your business or career.

While we'd like to keep as much money as possible in the business to hedge against a downturn, we find that we're hindered by our corporate form and tax status.

In keeping with the corporate structure laid out by P.J., the owners largely leave company business to non-family management.

They keep punishing schedules, fear losing business by offending their clients and often feel that in an industry still overwhelmingly populated by men, the less attention drawn to their sex, the better.

One of the easiest ways to keep track of key metrics for your company is by creating business intelligence dashboards, which track metrics like revenues, expenses, website performance and customer satisfaction in real - time.

«The political environment,» «uncertain tax policy,» «failure to address over-regulation, job creation, and keeping business in the US,» and «I see no major changes by our governing bodies to improve the situation at hand,» are just a few.

Combine this with the inefficiencies of a disjoint health - care delivery system (itself dominated by huge companies), and small businesses are kept at a perpetual disadvantage in keeping their workforce healthy and productive.

Get your financial house in order with Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business by Linda Pinson.

Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent, by Leigh Branham (American Management Association, 2000).

«The NYPD has been making its rounds in the surrounding area and checking in with businesses to keep them abreast of security protocols and restrictions put in place by the Secret Service,» a spokesperson for the mayor's office told me.

Mr. Speaker, by keeping taxes low we have created the best environment for business investment in the G - 7.

Here we discuss three unconventional moves made by some of the best online retailers in the business to keep their customers happy and have them coming back over and over again to their sites.

With no background in business, technology or manufacturing, and no seed money for expansion, Temple was struggling to keep up with demand by relying on the help of friends and family.

The fastest growing business in America resides in a Green Acres setting and is run by a couple of non-college-educated brothers whose biggest dream is to keep things small.

New research by American Express Business Insights, AmEx's analytics and consulting arm, suggests that the Canadian luxury market is in rude health — and likely to keep growing into the future.

You can follow the conversations at Brainstorm Design here or by subscribing to the just - launched occasional newsletter Business by Design that will keep you up to speed on design, innovation, smarter corporate thinking, and the goings - on in Singapore this week.

In a brief interview, business magnate Richard Branson suggested, «[exercise] keeps the brain functioning well and I definitely can achieve twice as much in a day by keeping fit.&raquIn a brief interview, business magnate Richard Branson suggested, «[exercise] keeps the brain functioning well and I definitely can achieve twice as much in a day by keeping fit.&raquin a day by keeping fit.»

In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy onlinIn keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy onlinin an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.

By the time you've put in all the hard work it takes to get a business off the ground and experienced some growth, you'll have to hire some people to keep it going.

Now in its fourth year, the Digital Cookie platform continues to keep Girl Scout programming current and relevant to today's girls, including by providing them with valuable business and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills that prepare them for 21st - century leadership.

It is one of the defining factors in whether your SaaS company has a viable business model that can yield profits by keeping acquisition costs low as you scale.

If you want to get business credit in the future, keep good financial records by using accounting software such as FreshBooks, QuickBooks or Xero.

There are some early signs that business and consumer confidence in the United States have begun to be affected by falling equity prices, but it should be kept in mind that swings in confidence can be quite ephemeral.

«Record numbers» of jobs are being created, he said that same day in October, which also happened to be the one when he capitulated... sorry, kept his campaign promise... to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, lowering the income tax paid by smaller companies.

Communicate with your customers by push notifications, in - app messages, and more to keep your business in their pocket.

You can make your life easier by remaining organized throughout the year and keeping all relevant records in one location — that includes no longer throwing business receipts into a shoebox — and using computer programs, software, or spreadsheets.

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

On the business side, Burger King has also ditched the industry tradition of owning a sizable percentage of its own stores as a way to ensure quality and consistency by keeping management in touch with the frontlines of the business.

«The Mayors» plan is a proactive opportunity for Metro businesses and residents to get the region's goods and people moving, which in turn will help keep our economy more competitive internationally by keeping traffic congestion costs and impacts down.»

The LTV and COCA analysis can kill many new businesses by identifying problems early in the process; but more often it highlights the importance of keeping an eye on key factors to make the business successful.

Likewise, if you run your own business and focus on keeping costs low, margins sufficiently high, and reduce spending in - line, you're probably going to come out ahead of the game by using these downturns to dollar cost average into your portfolio.

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

Rising house prices and the accompanying wealth effect, courtesy of ballooning equity lines of credit, have kept the economy from faltering as business spending retrenches and exports disappoint — last year real estate was by far the largest contributor to GDP in seven of 10 provinces, including B.C. and Ontario.

By creating incentives for its users, business listings are kept both geographically and temporally accurate in Locationary's «unique» federated data exchange platform called Saturn.

Some China experts say they were perplexed by Google's handling of the crisis, given its stated goals of keeping business operations in China.

The scores and data in PeerIndex are used by other social media measurement tools in their rankings, making it important for businesses to keep an eye on them.

Keep in mind that a dividend payment is not mandatory; the a business decision by the company to pay out a portion of it's profits to shareholders.

Things change so fast in the business and investment world, and the only way you can keep up with these changes is by learning constantly.

South Florida's budding business of medical marijuana keeps losing potential real estate, city by city, even though voters overwhelmingly indicated they are in favor of allowing it.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voterIn an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voterin San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voterin 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voterin the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

It was the same year that a Harvard Business School «guru» by the name of Theodore Levitt proposed in his book The Marketing Imagination an outrageous notion: the real purpose of a business is not making profits but creating and keeping cuBusiness School «guru» by the name of Theodore Levitt proposed in his book The Marketing Imagination an outrageous notion: the real purpose of a business is not making profits but creating and keeping cubusiness is not making profits but creating and keeping customers.

In regard to economic policy, the Party promises to create a low cost environment for business by permanently keeping levels of taxation low, enacting a Red Tape Review (similar to the one in British Columbia) to aid small business, and eliminating health care premiumIn regard to economic policy, the Party promises to create a low cost environment for business by permanently keeping levels of taxation low, enacting a Red Tape Review (similar to the one in British Columbia) to aid small business, and eliminating health care premiumin British Columbia) to aid small business, and eliminating health care premiums.

According to a post on the Facebook Business blog, the site has been working with experts in privacy, data ethics and civil rights, along with charitable and advocacy organizations, to keep advertisers from misusing Facebook's ad targeting capabilities, specifically the ability to discriminate by using exclusion targeting.

In general, historically low interest rates and a muted business cycle have kept pressure on financial stocks by constricting net interest margins and stifling credit activity.

On Thursday, Weinstein continued his bid in Delaware Bankruptcy Court to obtain personal and business records kept by The Weinstein Co. — a firm which he helped set up but which dismissed him in October following multiple complaints about his alleged sexual exploitation of women.

We try to accomplish this by keeping our intrinsic value estimates grounded in data, research and analysis, and a long - term understanding of the qualitative business fundamentals to guide our buy, sell, and hold decisions.

By keeping in mind the lower asset valuations, associated loan fees, and applicable rules, asset - backed lending can be a useful source of financing for small businesses.