Sentences with phrase «like focus groups»

By comparison, marketing research tools like focus groups can be expensive and may not target the right people, while market questionnaires or surveys generally do not give potential customers a chance to try the product.

Unfortunately, that suggestion of recklessness doesn't extend to the dialogue, which feels like a focus group's idea of what young people do (propose, have jobs) and joke about (Google), and borrows liberally from long - familiar punchlines.

It doesn't feel like a city, it feels like a focus group.

It feels like a focus group's attempt to recreate the successes of those aforementioned games that were just so weird they worked.

Not exact matches

Use techniques like prototyping, focus groups, and strict market segmentation with limited releases to get a better idea — although not a perfect one — of whether an idea will fly on the mass market.

The WSJ piece, like similar stories on executive comp, focuses on pay data for a small and elite group of chiefs.

They sent a survey to an email list of Kansas City residents that Howard had collected and conducted a focus group with six current loyal members to find out what they liked — and didn't — about Howard's current business model.

Today, it's a messaging platform like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or WeChat and is known as an easy place to create group chats and for its focus on encryption and privacy, protecting conversations from being viewed by outsiders.

Book publishers don't like to run focus groups for many of the same reasons that magazine editors don't.

This is like having a free focus group on what people like about this product and what is wrong with it.

In our case, since Iodine provides health information online, we can do some of this by analyzing our Web traffic through Google Analytics, some through services like UserTesting.com, and some with old - fashioned focus groups, people you invite in and then watch as they click away.

Cole, the group president of FOCUS Brands, the parent company of brands like Auntie Anne's, Carvel, and Cinnabon, wakes up every morning at 5 a.m. and checks her calendar, all of her major social media platforms, news sites, blogs, emails, and any other messages that may have come in overnight.

The short version goes like this: Blake Mycoskie, head of TOMS, agreed to be interviewed by Jim Daly, president of the right - wing Christian group Focus on the Family.

It is noteworthy that the focus groups appeared to be okay with subsidizing businesses directly, rather than cutting their taxes or making investments in things like infrastructure.

This is a unique group of investors who are focused on building out bitcoin and blockchain technology, assisting startups and companies with developing in specific areas like compliance and regulation, payments, security, identity, smart contracts and more.

It's like an instant, public focus group with marketing built in,» says Jason Calacanis, Mahalo's CEO.

We like to focus very strongly on groups and sectors,» Bollinger said.

Marketing a business to a large and diverse audience may sound like a good idea, but most companies old and new know learn quickly that you're much better off to aim for one specific demographic and then really focus your time, effort, and advertising money on that group.

Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.

Two, make charitable donations, both to humanitarian groups as well as to groups that are focused on issues like good governance and fighting corruption.

Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the biggest risk to market valuations are geopolitical, and the very things that people don't want to focus on, like North Korea.

I didn't know it then, but it was like having one focus group after another.

He was able to keep the discussion largely on the topics he likes to focus on, and he made a number of points that will resonate with progressives, not a small voting group in New York.

If you're hosting a larger event like a conference, focus on bigger, more general groups like «Coffee Shop Owners of Facebook».

But since Trump took office, his and Session's focus seems to be less on transnational criminal groups like Mexican drug cartels and more on criminal groups active in the US — specifically MS - 13, formed in the US in the 1980s by Central American immigrants who were deported to their home countries in the 1990s, where the gang expanded rapidly.

«Our efforts are paying off by shifting our focus to thinking more like a group of speciality retailers and less like general merchant,» said Wetmore.

I think there's something like $ 18 billion or $ 19 billion spent on surveys, focus groups and things like that, and yet now you have this real - time voice of the customer.

In another approach to standardizing what responsible mining looks like on a global basis, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance has brought together a group of major mining, electronics, jewellery and steel companies, NGOs, affected communities and labour unions to establish a multi-stakeholder and independently verifiable responsible mining assurance system, focused on improving both social and environmental performance.

«European stocks remain in favor — but investors like domestically focused names and are avoiding anything exposed to China or commodities,» the group said.

The group also wants to emphasize trucking as an essential cog in the wheel of the U.S. economy, which the new administration is focused on growing, and see that any changes to trade agreements like NAFTA — which also clearly would affect the U.S. trucking industry and many other businesses — are made with all due consideration.

That's because our SBA Lending Group focuses exclusively on lending to businesses like yours.

Choose your own peer group based on underlying factors like portfolio construction and industry focus, and benchmark your fund against funds with similar strategies.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Steer clear of high - potential investments like stocks, and you could end up outspending your lifestyle, said Joseph Carbone, a certified financial planner and founder of Focus Planning Group in Bayport, N.Y.

Gaming stocks like Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN), Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS), and Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. (GXYEY) are in focus this week after new data indicated casino traffic continues to plummet in Macau, China.

«It turns out, there's a lot of Americans who really like this idea of a really strong authoritarian leader, and people were quite defensive in focus groups of Putin's invasion of Crimea.»

Not safe in the overly - commericalised, focus - grouped - to - within - an - inch - of - its - life way that the prequels were, but safe like your favourite pair of slippers.

To finish, I would like to focus on some of the practical issues that impinge on all these groups.

A group of Christian leaders that includes the likes of Beth Moore, Jen Hatmaker, Max Lucado, Matt Chandler, Ann Voskamp, Willow Creek's Bill and Lynne Hybels, and Christianity Today president Harold Smith has taken out a full - page ad in the Washington Post calling for President Donald Trump to «help vulnerable immigrants,» and has a particular focus on Dreamers.

Externally, that is between the different people - groups, I like to think that «Jesus focused on the opportunity, and not on the offense.»

Sherman said a moderate denomination, to be successful, must focus on bedrock Baptist issues and warned against what he called «elitist» moderate groups that focus on single issues, like women in ministry or gay rights.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

This chicken fajita crockpot recipe is also really good for groups because people can pick and choose the ingredients they like and get their own and you can keep the meat warm and have it made ahead of time so you can focus on last minute preparations for your party.

Sydell Group has a growing collection of brands focused on authentic offerings, a residential feel and the ability to connect with like - minded collaborators at the forefront of design and food & beverage.

Specific activities like focus on enhancing leadership skills of women, promoting thrift and credit groups as well as health, education and economic activities also have contributed largely to women empowerment.

We should just focus on the premier league, You can forget about the europa league mate, if we carry on playing like that, we will finish bottom of group with 3 pts.

Belotti looks a good prospect, I do think there are a number of good choices but the media like to focus on some players and the hype becomes about a small select group.

«We can focus on looking forward and having the opportunity to race for the championship with this group of guys and have fast pit stops like they've been doing all year long.»

We have to focus on Europa league My worry... Tottenham's group looks like Dortmund are dropping into Europa As are one of Roma or athletico

Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.