Sentences with phrase «little business at»

Wide Awake did very little business at the box office, receiving limited theatrical release from Miramax Films.

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It's obviously geared towards having the chance of a romantic connection, but if it's not, then there's a great chance that it'll at least be a friend or someone that might be a good business connection or something, and so I think being geared towards just social discovery generally both makes it a more effective product and also there's still I feel like a little bit of a stigma associated with online dating, and this makes it just a much more accessible product.

Many small businesses have static websites that change little, if at all, after being initially set up by the designer.

Very little, says Andrew Crane, professor of business ethics at York University's Schulich School of Bbusiness ethics at York University's Schulich School of BusinessBusiness.

The near - term growth potential of a brand's business is almost entirely circumscribed by the number of people out there in the world who are already somewhat familiar with it and at least a little intrigued.

If you get the strategy and the values of the business right, the execution, while no less challenging, is at least a little easier to pull off.

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

Running a business can force an individual to recall what feels like to have very little (if anything at all).

But small businesses mean small investments, and corporate Canada contributes relatively little of total spending on research conducted at Canada's post-secondary institutions:

Many of us are guilty for being workaholics and only networking a little or none at all, can be more damaging than helpful to your business.

This year, we at Canadian Business decided to calculate our annual Worst Jobs list a little differently — by income decline.

If you don't know for sure that your start - up can «hang» on its own for 18 to 24 months with little or no new revenue streams, you need to consider whether you should be in business at all.

It might feel a little exposing at first, but I guarantee that you will immediately get more engagement with your customers, they will feel like they know you and they will do business with you for the real reasons, not some hyped up corporate lingo that no one believes any more.

Then, at a predetermined time, everyone in the business commits a little bit of time to address every issue on the «DRIVES ME CRAZY» board.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Let's take a look at how small business owners can make employee engagement a little more engaging.

Not only will the state enforce payment with the threat of jail time, but the money is funneled through the state agency from the perpetrator to the victim so that there is no direct contract between the two, and all at little or no expense to the small business owner.

In appropriate cases, small business owners who have been victims of crime can use the power of the criminal judicial system to recover financial losses at little or no additional expense.

If that little voice inside your head is telling you otherwise, look at some other way to go into business for yourself.

It can drive my wife a little crazy when we talk too much business at home, but we all signed up for this ride.

A hotel room also makes it a little easier to freshen up for dinner at any one of the great restaurants here in Vegas, before heading over to Marquee Nightclub to see who can stay out the latest (be it the business folks or the engineers).

«He has a little bit of wind in his sails,» David Carter, a sports business professor at the University of Southern California, told the New York Times.

SM is such a critical part of every business's business today that it really can't be left to the alleged professionals — hired guns at old - line agencies who generally know almost as little about this stuff as you do — or simply delegated to employees who have the attitude, aptitude, and interest in creating some of this.

With an eye to the future, he bought used furniture at auctions and from companies that were going out of business, for as little as 10 cents on the dollar.

Agrawal: I think it does need to relate to their business at hand, because if it doesn't, the lines could become a little bit blurred.

Littler polled 844 executives and professionals primarily at small and mid-sized businesses in the spring.

In a wide - ranging interview at the conference, Icahn said he «take [s] a little affront, umbrage,» to Ackman's accusations, and genuinely believes in Herbalife's business model.

Just like Pickens County itself, NGAtops won't thrive if it remains little more than a well - kept secret, so the Guidices are marketing the service throughout northern Georgia, meeting with local businesses and handing out promotional decals at regional festivals.

His business model allows immigrants to transfer as little as $ 2 worth of minutes at a time to family overseas, with no fee to the sender or recipient.

But this recently - shuttered business is going at things a little differently on the popular review site.

In Venezuela, she'd help out at her uncle's little tourism business.

This may seem a little easier to do in a game that tracks at - bats and hits and runs than in your industry, but every business needs to develop effective and relatively frictionless ways to keep score for everyone's benefit and also to establish and implement these criteria at every level and for everyone in the business.

«Wealthy Chinese want to make a statement about their social status and what they wear, but they're getting a little more subtle,» Hansi Men, an investment immigration lawyer at Streit & Su law firm, told Business Insider.

It's a little riskier than holding a big bank in your retirement account, but if you don't mind owning a $ 205 million market - cap business then there could be some good upside ahead, says Bruce Campbell, president and portfolio manager at Kelowna - based StoneCastle Investment Management.

Houston has been a part of the friendliest small business cities ranking since 2013, when it peaked at No. 3, but slipped a little in 2015.

You're seeing a little bit of caution about tax reform, and so that seems to be dampening things a bit, but overall if you look at the origination business, clients are engaged in a lot more activity.

While the Deluxe staff on the tour are giving free presentations on many topics I've spoken and written about including Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, building Web Sites and lots of others, my presentation for this tour is on «local marketing» - how you as a small business owner can easily use the Internet to * successfully * gain visibility and sales within a local area at very little cost.

Again, this one is a little basic, but you absolutely must have your completed social media profiles for your business on at least all the major social media platforms.

He did a little research, and found out the small business rate he gets at United Healthcare is based on the age of the owner of the company.

One was the rollup, an instant - revenue strategy in which an entrepreneur acquires a series of little independent businesses in the same unconsolidated industry, packages them under one corporate umbrella, and takes the whole lot of them public at once.

However, too much (or too little) segmentation won't help your business at all.

Then the corporation applies the value of its new public stock to acquiring yet more little businesses in what, conceptually at least, promises to be a never - ending expansion.

All you have to pay for is the execution of the growth hack, and then it keeps growing your business at little to no extra cost.

I was building businesses before my little vacation, and I wasn't exactly employable at that time.

Essentially our offer is that we handle the production & distribution and then share revenue with the people who help create the works for a period of time (12 months) in exchange for their work at half pay — As shoots only last a day or two max, there is very little risk for people to participate as it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyone

During an IPO, the previous owners are attempting to raise capital for expanding the business, cash out their interest for estate planning, or any other myriad of reasons that all result in one thing: a premium price that offers little chance for buying your stake at a discount.

«Content marketing leaves off at a certain point, but business goals go a little beyond that,» Joe says.

Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, hit back at the notion that the iPhone business, which accounts for 62 percent of the company's overall revenue, had little room to grow.

At the end of the predetermined lease term, depending upon the lease, the business owner may be able to purchase the equipment at fair market value, or a predetermined amount — sometimes for as little as $ At the end of the predetermined lease term, depending upon the lease, the business owner may be able to purchase the equipment at fair market value, or a predetermined amount — sometimes for as little as $ at fair market value, or a predetermined amount — sometimes for as little as $ 1.

If some marijuana dispensaries may not be totally forthright with banks, they have little choice if they want to do business, even beyond accepting credit and debit cards, said Michele Heney, a professor of accounting at University of Oregon.