Sentences with phrase «make smaller margins»

A third contingent, the smallest, make a wholesale switch to the new technology or business model, attempting to make smaller margins on a larger number of transactions, with mixed results.

So when I recommend precious metals, I do so not because I make a small margin on bullion sales, but because I believe that they should be in your portfolio.

In addition they charge enough to cover the administrative expenses (the manpower to process and underwrite the policy, plus printing costs, shipping costs, and other administrative costs), enough to pay the life insurance agent a commission, plus enough to make a small margin of profit.

Not exact matches

Card fees can make small transactions unprofitable when profit margins are slim, but customers generally dislike purchase minimums and the restrictions they bring.

Making your minimum threshold too high: While free shipping on small purchases can eat away at your profit margin, it's a mistake to set your minimum qualifying purchase price too high, says John Lawson, an Atlanta - based e-commerce consultant.

Rotem's sales pitch is that while owners may lose a small margin on sales, the new customers that come in should more than make up for it.

The high stakes require startups to burn through their budget with a very small margin of error, making manufacturing at scale even harder.

To critics who say that small businesses will lose out if people can compare prices online, and that the businesses may be forced to charge prices that are too low just to compete, Mason said: «Even if a business might make a little less on each hamburger, they'll sell enough additional hamburgers to far outweigh the reduced margin.

Singapore is the top performer by a huge margin — probably made easier by the small size of the country.

Such retailers make very small margins on the hardware and virtually all of their money on the games themselves — giving up consoles will hurt them a lot less than the manufacturers.

Drawbacks: Banks make their greatest margins by lending larger sums than most small businesses seek.

A consumer goods company may be a market - share leader but not make much money, or it may occupy a small niche and command premium margins.

If she had added: «Plus, even though we are currently above the Effective Lower Bound on nominal interest rates (which is probably below 0 %) we are worried that the margin of safety is getting a bit small, and are pleased that fiscal policy is making that margin of safety a bit bigger than it otherwise would be» that would also be an internally consistent thing for the Bank of Canada to say.

We refuse to believe that life is good and worthy for us as we really are, that our small margin of freedom with all its risks makes the difference between fulfilling life and destroying it.

Meanwhile, those on the margins are typically working with less power, smaller platforms, thinner finances, and fewer numbers and in the face of subtle but pervasive stereotypes, prejudices, and disadvantages that make it nearly impossible to advocate for change without causing friction.

However, ACCC analysis indicates that these increases in gross margins could have only made a small contribution to overall food price inflation.2 In other words, the vast majority of grocery price increases in Australia are attributable to other factors, such as supply and demand changes in international and domestic markets, increases in the costs of production and domestic weather conditions.

Those small margins are what makes winning teams.

In certain games small margins or half chances makes the difference.

Missing out on breaking Eric Dickerson's record by such a small margin (9 yards) is brutal, even if Peterson is happy that the Vikings made the playoffs.

Other, more minor changes include the introduction of Nascar - style two - lane rolling starts at every race, the addition of a series of complex mirrors and cameras to the Halo in order to make it appear invisible to the naked eye, and bonus points being awarded to the driver who can exceed the pit lane speed limit by the smallest margin over the course of the weekend.

Every team who wins the league will likely lose no more than 5 league games — and we give up a loss at home to West Ham! It makes our margins for error even smaller, and now we need to make up those 3 points at either Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford.

Asked whether his party would seek the support of smaller parties in the event of a second round, President Mahama said; «It is not in my consideration, there is no event that we will be going into a second round, from what I am saying scientifically, plus or minus any margin of error, we will make 50 % plus.»

Since well before the State of the State address in January when Cuomo made the $ 15 minimum wage and an exceedingly generous paid family leave centerpieces of his forthcoming agenda, I've been getting calls and letters from small - business men and women across upstate anguishing over what this will mean for their thin - margin enterprises.

So while we were actually to the right of centre by only a small margin, perceptions of Michael Howard made us appear extreme.

Yet, she has an awful lot of ground to make up in the next five weeks, even though by a very small margin, voters would like to see the Democrats regain control of the House.»

It's impossible to tell when having an extra ballot line makes a difference in the outcome of an election, even when the margin of victory is smaller than the total the winner polled on that line.

To win elections, it is best to win individual seats by small rather than large margins, and to lose by large ones: to do the opposite is inefficient, as it makes it more likely that a party will lose an election even if they win the most votes.

They also found a smaller cycle of waviness about every 200 years, Bowen said, although the margin of error in their records makes that finding less robust.

CLI's high - resolution and small - sized imaging equipment make it a promising technology for assessing tumor margins during breast tumor surgery.

This makes it relatively expensive to manufacture the diodes, and the margins are small.

Companies that make cheap devices with small profit margins, so they won't add these layers of protection without help and support from the outside.

The Florida Project is a deliberately modest - sized film made by an artist whose sense of ethics is matched by his pursuit of exciting and tough - to - render behaviors and situations and the small - scale delights and disasters of life on the tips of the edges of the margins.

It's a far more subtle turn for her, more about small facial tics and reactions on the margins and how that factors into her composure and decision - making process.

(As always with polling data and reporting subgroups, some caution should be taken when making comparisons of subgroups having smaller sample sizes — and hence, larger margins of error — than the total national sample.)

The university business model makes it nearly impossible for any existing education school to direct resources toward a smaller, lower - margin product like an online degree at the expense of the core, on - campus offerings.

Surely it therefore makes sense to ensure they can make the most benefit out of their playtimes outside, otherwise they are mostly just going to stand around the margins getting bored and marking time idly, looking to create mischief, all whilst a small core group dominates the playground space with a ball.

Price and Verdict — Priced from Rs. 5.09 lakhs to Rs. 7.89 lakhs (ex-showroom, Delhi), the Freestyle undercuts its rivals by a huge margin and this is where the Freestyle starts making sense, in spite, of its relatively smaller size.

«GM's retail growth over the last 12 months has outpaced the industry by a wide margin because our redesigned large pickups and SUVs are hits, we made smart investments in new segments like small crossovers and mid-size pickups, and our momentum in the car business is accelerating with each new model introduction,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of Sales Operations.

You still want to make sure you're compensated at the rate that traditional publishers have valued books like yours, but if you can decrease the price by a small margin, it may help influence the consumer's purchase.

The margins are so wide, that you basically have a 5 ″ reader when it comes to PDFs making the text VERY small.

There has been some debate about the ability of these tablets to make an impression in the market, however, the past has shown that Amazon is willing to sell devices at some of the smallest profit margins... Only time will tell what Wednesday has to offer for us, so stay tuned.

Readers looking for bargains will buy illegal books instead of legal ones, the profit margin for authors and publishers which is small now will plummet to the point that publishing will no longer be profitable for anyone, and those who make the money will have done nothing to create books.

The best way to maximize your profit is to keep the page count as low as possible without making the print too small or the page margins too narrow.

A low - margin (or even small - loss) device makes sense ONLY if there is substantial opportunity to make the money on the subsequent use (buying music, movies, apps and products directly from Amazon).

Additionally there are three margin adjustment settings, which seems kind of pointless because they make margins larger instead of smaller.

The font and margin controls are plus and minus buttons, so you can make things a little bigger or smaller without having to choose a particular number from a list.

«Following the razor - blade model, Amazon appears to be taking a small margin on the razor (the Kindle) and planning to make it up on the blades (the e-books),» wrote analyst Paul Ausick of website 247WallSt.com.

You can make the page size 20 ″ x 20 ″ in Word with zero margins to maximize the picture size, then later transfer the picture to real picture - editing software to create a smaller image with higher DPI than what Word offers.)

Still, those measurements make this device the thinnest tablet we've tested for under $ 100, if only by a small margin.

2) The margins for a small, writer - as - publisher startup makes a lot of sense.