Sentences with phrase «less business by»

Appealing to a wider customer base can make up for less business by existing customers.

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Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

A noted decrease in job growth is less of a concern if it's accompanied by signs «that manufacturing activity is starting to rebound, that businesses are spending more on investment, and that consumers are continuing to spend,» he said.

If you want to reach local customers and keep them coming back to your business, text - message marketing is one of the most effective strategies for doing so: While email marketing messages are opened by less than 20 percent of recipients, text message ads are typically viewed by at least 95 percent of recipients, according to Mashable.

Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that equities were less risky than in the past.

But it should be remembered that the underlying businesses owned by PE firms are not less volatile than other real - world companies.

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According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

Research by the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census shows that family businesses are less likely to lay off employees regardless of financial performance.

Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital by High - Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent less capital than male entrepreneurs.

In the post-recession business landscape where good jobs continue to be hard to come by, more and more employees across all industries are working harder than ever, even if it means sleeping a lot less.

No less significant, Zenefits offers its software absolutely free to business customers, generating revenue by claiming commissions from its benefits provider partners — e.g., health insurance carriers — if the customer chooses to manage its benefits program through the Zenefits platform.

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Would - be entrepreneurs hamstrung by student debt are more likely to keep their current jobs and less likely to launch new businesses that could create new jobs.

According to a report on food franchising by Franchise Business Review, 51.5 percent of food franchises earn profits of less than $ 50,000 a year; roughly 7 percent top $ 250,000, with the average profit for all restaurants coming in at $ 82,033.

An issue that receives less attention, but is no less important, are taxes that are being charged retroactively by the government on businesses.

Less than a year ago conglomerate General Electric Co combined its oilfield business with Baker Hughes, creating the second largest oilfield services company by revenue.

The Arbitration shall be held either: (i) at a location determined by JAMS (or, if applicable, AAA) pursuant to the Applicable Rules (provided that such location is reasonably convenient for you and does not require travel in excess of 100 miles from your home or place of business); or (ii) at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by you and NBCUniversal; or (iii) at your election, if the only claims in the arbitration are asserted by you and are for less than $ 10,000 in aggregate, by telephone or by written submission.

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.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

A survey by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) found that 45 percent of its European members were less likely to plan travel to the U.S. after the restrictions were announced.

Its task would be less to design and implement top - down solutions than to solicit, support, evaluate, and scale up innovative strategies by tapping into ideas developed by state and local governments, businesses, and non-profit institutions.

With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

«The decline in confidence was fueled by a somewhat less optimistic outlook for business and job prospects in the coming months,» Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement.

Right now, Steve Madden generates less than 10 % of its sales from outside the U.S., but its international business is growing by 20 % a year.

According to Alexandre Lebrun of Facebook's artificial intelligence division, quoted by Business Insider, «The better we get [at artificial intelligence], the less time you spend talking to customer service.

Microsoft's overarching goal is to «democratize A.I.,» which Nadella explained has something to do with analyzing the mountains of data produced by consumers and businesses and then presenting the findings to people who have far less free time than they used to have.

It's too early to say if anyone will be negatively impacted by the money move, other than the bank in Jersey, which will now have less dollars in its account, but it's likely business will continue as usual, Goldberg said.

The company had responded to aggressive new competition and low - cost delivery systems by changing their entire business in less than a decade.

In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted households.

A description that reads, «These are really great to give as client gifts,» is less impactful than one that says, «These five gifts, all under $ 30, can be used by a man or a woman and are something every small - business person needs.

Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets with more personal equity and less debt than in businesses owned by men.

By comparison, hiring managers have had «eyes on» candidates for less than three hours total when assessing the average recruit for an entry - to mid-level business or government position.

You'd think someone with that kind of resume, topped by a Stanford MBA no less, would think up a more substantive business than a dating app.

The car rental business came full circle: Suddenly, Enterprise's slew of downtown locations — used by people whose cars are in the shop or who don't own cars at all — offered a less cyclical, more profitable model.

A 2009 report by consulting giant Deloitte found that plans with less than $ 1 million in assets, like those of many small businesses, routinely were paying as much as 2 percent «all - in,» or the total of all fees.

In a survey by Paychex, 44 percent of small business owners said the new administration has made them more likely to hire new employees; and just 12 percent said it has made them less likely to do so.

Bern Lefson, a certified mentor at SCORE, the nonprofit dedicated to helping small businesses that is supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration, says there is a consistent trend of consumers carrying less cash and making more transactions with credit cards.

So if your business is tiny (less than $ 1 million in revenue), unprofitable, or just barely scraping by, it is not (yet) a candidate for sale to an ESOP.

A person close to the Delivery Hero IPO stressed the differences, arguing that Blue Apron's subscription - based business model was less attractive than that of Delivery Hero, which generates income by taking a commission on meal orders.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

By the end of June, six years after the passage of Dodd - Frank, bank business loans of less than $ 1 million stood at $ 328 billion — not very far off from that 2008 peak.

I noted that pricing decisions by businesses might well have a substantial impact on customers» tipping behaviour, by making it more or less convenient, for example, simply to «round up» to the nearest dollar (or currency denomination).

Today Independent Street points out a provocative entry by GreenBiz.com's editor Joel Makower, which advocates that businesses actually encourage customers to buy less stuff.

Less than 18 months after opening for business, this New York City - based company commands a heady $ 1.5 billion valuation and has raised $ 175 million from a group led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital.

Examination of data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances — the central bank's effort to examine the financial conditions of American families — by two Northeastern University scholars shows that households with more student debt are less likely to start businesses than other households.

Online alternative lending companies are also well - represented this year, from personal loans for people with less than perfect credit, as served by Avant, to small business loans from Kabbage and Prosper.

The financial industry has been so limited by process and tradition that it has fallen behind in terms of innovation and digital development, leaving opportunities for less - established fintech startup businesses to seize opportunities in the marketplace.

Here are seven simple secrets that business and time management experts swear by that can help you get more done in less time.

In the south, business executives and development officials interviewed by Reuters were less likely to call for new tariffs and trade deals than to worry about how any new regime may disrupt a system they have learned to work with.