Sentences with phrase «less marketing of»

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Nonetheless, the Canadian market has been one of the best performing globally year - to - date, alongside the less mature and more risky likes of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina.

My goal here is to amass as much bitcoin as possible for less than I can buy it at market price — within my means, of course.

This was the first glimpse of the job market since the release last Friday of a disappointing employment report that showed U.S. job creation coming in at 74,000, far less than the 200,000 that had been expected.

With the announcement of two new iPhones yesterday, the 5S and the less expensive 5C, Apple is attempting to capture more market share among price - conscious consumers while retaining already - loyal iPhone users who are ready for an upgrade.

Ottawa recently began allowing foreign takeovers of telecom companies that have a 10 per cent or less share of the market.

Still, its truth as a marketing parable really only resonates after a bit of experience: The less interest there already is for what you're trying to sell, the more expensive and uncertain your effort will be.

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

From that sample, we seek out companies that have return on equity of at least 12 % and a beta above 1, indicating that a company is less volatile than the market average.

LONDON, April 30 - Sainsbury's $ 10 billion purchase of Walmart's Asda may pressure UK grocery prices and make the British market less attractive for newer players such as Amazon.com.

When the company auctions that oilfield drill, for example, the goal is for its pricing model to forecast demand in the near future based on different factors, such as the price of oil, leaving Ritchie Bros. less vulnerable to market surprises.

In spite of a hazy policy climate in Canada — the Conservative government seems committed to a more restrictive policy on marijuana, not less — there is an ever more visible grey market in Canada catering to cannabis users.

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.

When it first hit the stock market in 2004, the search engine was worth less than toothpaste - maker Colgate - Palmolive, at about $ 27 billion at the close of trading that day.

Canada's Big Six banks themselves are less likely to feel the need to innovate, insulated as they are against the competitive agitation of fintech companies by their market position and regulatory balustrade, and cognizant that Canada's venture capitalism industry — usually the fuel for fintech — is far less fulsome than America's.

The Independent was created in 1986 as an alternative to the existing British daily press, and for a time it was a successful business, but as the pressure of a declining print market continued to grow it faded rapidly from a readership of about 400,000 to less than 50,000.

But of late, Canada has encountered buyers of a less familiar variety: state - owned companies and sovereign wealth funds from emerging markets like China and Malaysia.

Much less sexy, but it turns out that's where our market is: millions of people who just want better information about their medications, at the right time.

The biggest casualty of that shakeout has unquestionably been Canada's BlackBerry, which has seen its once - commanding position atop the smartphone pile dwindle to less than one per cent global market share.

The model of many a successful small firm is one «get - up - and - go» individual with an entrepreneurial flair who has identified a market they would like to get involved with; and one other individual who may be less entrepreneurial in spirit but knows the target market well.

Canada's history of protectionism, on the other hand (in addition to restrictions on trade between provinces), has resulted in markets that are generally less competitive than those in the large U.S. market and real wages that do not track productivity growth as closely:

From October through mid-January — the period when the market was obsessed with the implication of tax reform on earnings — the S&P 500 went from 2,500 to almost 2,900, or a 16 percent increase in less than four months.

The increasingly tactical focus of marketing means less gets invested in the luxury of storytelling.

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

We needed nothing less but a marketing genius in order to turn the company around,» Rene Obermann, the former CEO of T - Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, who hired Legere, told «The Brave Ones.»

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

Marks arrived at more or less the same definition of liquidity as Hooper, writing that the way to think about liquidity isn't to ask if there is a market for an asset, but whether you can quickly sell that an asset without taking a huge loss on it.

Erik Brannon, analyst with IHS, thinks the market is saturated and that the paradigm shift underway in the U.S. — where young people who matured in a post-2008 climate of cord shaving are now moving on to cord cutting — is happening in Canada but just to a lesser degree.

«Macro shocks trigger bigger reactions today than historically because markets are less liquid,» economists at Bank of America wrote.

We have averaged a cost of $ 3 million to get our previous products to market, which is less than one - tenth of the industry average.

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In Act I, foreign companies would be allowed to create or purchase telecommunications companies with a market share of 10 % or less.

I think it went from like three weeks to less than five days, so that kind of productivity bounce is going to be huge for that market and for the markets that are surrounding it.

Here's why: Forrester Research states that less than 1 % of leads ever generate revenue for B2B companies, which means B2B marketers doing traditional lead gen waste 99 % of their time, energy, and money marketing to people who will never become customers.

Further, China's devaluation of its currency, the renminbi, in August and imposition of investment restrictions made people in the country — which has long vied with India as the top physical gold market — less able to buy gold.

Whether it is stricter regulations, negative interest rates, or fragile confidence, banks and other market participants are less than keen these days to hold large piles of risky assets.

Now, less than two years later, Dror has left his position as the head of marketing at AngelList to start a venture - capital fund.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

But it pumped most of the cash into the economy via short - term money market operations, seen as a less risky option.

But Bing holds on to just a tinyfraction of the giant search market in China — less than 1 % — and it faces an uphill battle in attracting more users.

And due to its economies of scale and zero marketing needs, it would have very low management fees, less than half a percentage point.

At a program such as Arkansas State, located in a small town and without the benefit of being the state's flagship university or being a member of a major conference, great results are contingent on the ability to market better, faster and with less resources.

This puts the housing market in a precarious position: a large gap between prices and incomes, worsening affordability, and an indebted nation of homeowners less able to withstand economic shocks.

Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do with the performance of the increasingly large companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do with the returns of its stock market portfolio.

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

It's just my interpretation of the market, but it seems like there has been a shift in development resources away from smart devices, which is a very crowded space right now, to the types of e-shops where discoverability is less of an issue and we can work together to make games like Shovel Knight and one of my favourites Guacamelee!

«Even at their recent peak, their combined global market value was less than 1 percent of global GDP,» he said.

Then again, the more the market falls on the fear of an interest rate hike, the less likely it becomes that the Fed will pull the trigger on it in the near future, which will then push prices back up.

Russia contributes less than 5 % of total company operating profit, but it has been one of McDonald's few reliable European markets.

The difference can be traced to real estate market trajectories: Over the past decade, while housing bubbles percolated through much of Europe and in North America, home values rose less than 3 % in Germany.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»