Sentences with phrase «lives than products»

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It's premised on social influence: There are no shops or traditional salespeople, just living rooms and hosts who feel more like pals than product - pushing robots.

That book, published in 2006, predicted the internet would create a new type of economy in which products, particularly niche products, have profitable lives for longer periods, and on a wider variety of distribution channels, than ever before.

Hurom also claims that your juice can last up to 72 hours — shorter than the shelf - life of the store bought variety, but longer than some other fresh products.

The good news is that reporters and bloggers are more likely to listen to a pitch from a company founder than a PR rep. «It means something when you tell somebody, «I invented this product,»» says Leslie Haywood, founder of Charmed Life Products, a Charleston, South Carolina, maker of grilling accessories.

More than just donating money, your company can be a platform for serving others who can benefit from your company's existence, whether it's the efforts and labor of your staff, the distribution of profits (check out Life is Good's Playmakers program), or just spreading important messages to your customers (for example, Patagonia, which has encouraged its customers to repair products, rather than replace them).

Then they tested the product in homes, where more than 80 percent of dementia patients live.

Zappos Labs has launched more than a dozen products; most are short - lived, but some hold great promise.

New products can earn about half their sales and profits far earlier in the product life cycle than many business owners realize, according to Robyn Sachs, president of RMR & Associates, an advertising, marketing and public relations firm based in Rockville, Maryland.

Robbins has helped more than 50 million people from more than 100 countries transform their lives and their businesses through his books, audio programs, health products, live events and personal coaching.

As the co-founder and CEO of SOLS, a startup that manufactures custom 3 - D printed insoles using scans of customers» feet, Schouwenburg is more than a little personally invested in redefining 3 - D printing as an affordable way to create products that don't just look cool, but actually improve the way we live.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Mehta has been studying family caregiving for more than a decade, and his research suggests companies pursuing this niche will find success with solutions that are comprehensive (with the product's services available at all times, even if it's only needed sporadically), intuitive and designed for the interruptions that proliferate in caregivers» busy lives.

Add to that the fact that Honolulu has one of the highest costs of living in the country — due in part to the cost of importing supplies and exporting products from the islands — and it's no wonder that most business owners are quickly lured back to the mainland for anything more than a long vacation.

Life Is Good products cost about 20 percent more than middle - of - the - pack offerings.

Also, if your product or service can «kill two birds with one stone» by satisfying more than one need (or want) in their life, they will be more apt to do business with you.

LeapFrog's first fund of $ 135 million made equity investments of between $ 5 million and $ 15 million in eight companies in Africa and Asia offering insurance and other financial products to individuals living on less than $ 10 per day.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing featured a string of critics who rebuked Bresch for raising the price of a product with life - or - death implications, especially one that needs to be replaced almost every year and in a therapeutic space where Mylan has more than 90 % market share.

The consumer will incur a surrender charge, be subject to the commencement of a new surrender period, lose existing benefits (such as a higher crediting guarantee than is currently available, as well as death, living or other contractual benefits), or be subject to increased fees, investment advisory fees or charges for riders and similar product enhancements;

Businesses that present live performances of an indecent sexual nature or derive directly or indirectly more than 2.5 percent of gross revenue through the sale of products or services, or the presentation of any depictions or displays, of an indecnt sexual nature

Because there is no living benefit guarantee, she said she finds the product easier to explain than variable annuities with living benefit guarantees.

Indexed annuities and indexed life insurance are linked to market indexes and expose clients to higher potential gains than a fixed product.

The sales data Living Goods has shared with us is sales to CHPs, from Living Goods branches, rather than sales by CHPs to clients.15 Living Goods notes that both types of products offered and margins can change quickly16 — margins given are from July 2014 and may not reflect long - term trends.

While the Feather «Popular» doesn't quite live up to the company's reputation for excellence, this really has more to do with how excellent their other products are than anything.

Designed to provide a survivorship life insurance solution for clients seeking strong protection and accumulation guarantees, this new second - to - die whole life product can cover two lives more cost effectively than two comparable individual policies.

Lifetime Builder ELITE also offers the potential to accumulate greater cash values over the life of the policy than other fixed - interest permanent insurance products.

It also offers the potential to accumulate greater cash values over the life of the policy than other fixed - interest permanent insurance products.

For example, the company hired more than 30 popular Chinese bloggers to talk up Australia products, produced a video introducing Chemist Warehouse that aired on Alibaba's video website Youku, and in November staged two live - streamed shows through Alibaba's Taobao Marketplace.

For one, wealth management products tend to have a shorter life than the underlying assets.

Hybrid products also open up opportunities to introduce new distribution channels to the business via producers who might prefer to sell benefits such as long care rather than life insurance, Reynolds indicated.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Yes, because the Pope is far less trustworthy than pharmaceutical companies that have convinced otherwise healthy women that they need to be dependent upon their products for the whole of their reproductive life.

Again and again we are told that we must sacrifice what we have valued for the sake of progress, and usually «progress» means increase of gross product rather than improvement in the quality of life.

Rather than hitting all the major plot points of Jobs» life, the film presents fictionalized versions of behind - the - scenes looks at three product releases from 1984 to 1998.

I am an alcoholic with 32 years of sobriety, Lets look at what this woman does for a living, She writes books and I see this as nothing more than a effort to promote her product.

Given this situation, we can understand why Shintõ scholars proudly emphasize that Shintõ is a natural expression of Japanese life, rather than the product of a definite set of doctrines or a conscious conversion.

The failure of the quest must warn us as to the extent to which the Jesus to whom we try to relate is likely to be more the product of our fancies than the man who once lived in Galilee.

It seems Christianity is more a product of the Apostle Paul than the beautifully simple stories presented by Jesus: the samaritan helping someone who had been assaulted and abused, the prodigal son, the many examples of caring, Jesus seen as someone loving life and associating with all strata of society.

It is less than the church because it is a product of the church and can be understood only in the context which the life of the church provides; it is greater than the church because it is, by and large, the only record we have of the events which not only brought the church into being but also through which its reality must be continually renewed.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

At any rate, if process - relational thinkers can work through fundamental systemic problems relating to the nature of the self and the God - world relationship, perhaps we might solve as a by - product the question of a realistic envisioning of the resurrection life; if we can't, then this mode of thought has problems more foundational than those at issue in this essay.

On the one hand, if all life is nothing more than the product of chance, then our lives are quite meaningless, and we are, for all intents and purposes already dead.

Based in Pleasant Grove, Utah, dōTERRA offers more than 130 essential oils and oil - infused personal care and spa products, dietary supplements and healthy living products for emotional and physical wellness through independent distributors and wholesale customers.

Those less than perfect are processed immediately right at the FDA - HAACP - certified tank house or shipped live to other processors to be used in value - added seafood products.

The entrepreneurial spirit that lives at Grand River Foods has helped the company grow to produce more than 200 private - label food products for the top grocery, restaurant and foodservice companies in Canada.

In a rush to get the next fad product out, some have arrived with a stack of unfavourable ingredients that lend themselves more to preserving shelf life than promoting health, so reading labels is a must.

I figure it's got to be better for me than the processed bread products I've been living on for the past four months and the extra protein from the peanut butter can only be good for me.

«This book features meticulously researched and written chapters by more than 50 Culinology professionals on topics including the principles of food science, food safety and spoilage, shelf life extensions, packaging, nutritious food product development, commercialization and so much more,» RCA Executive Director Suzanne Bohle described.