Sentences with phrase «making fewer starts»

We've made a few starts on this project at different times in the past — one of the walls in our room is still covered with game ideas from a brainstorming session weeks ago (some highlights: «Black Plague — the game!»

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And I'm a huge believer that «a few people can make a really big difference» and start a snowball effect.

Mr. Guillebeau has many points to make, but I will sum up a few of them below: You don't need a lot of money to start a business.

We started with just a few people, who really didn't know how to make rockets.

If you want to make the most of whatever intellectual horsepower you have, it's well worth a read in full, but here are a few of his ideas in brief to get you started.

You can start off small by making just a few changes to an integral part of your business — one you probably don't give much thought to anyway — your Point of Sale (POS) system.

When I was starting my first business, almost everyone told me how difficult it was going to be, how much money it would take, how risky it was and how few businesses make it.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

If your budding entrepreneur shows interest in starting a business this summer, here are a few tips to help make the experience a positive one:

This means that when you start a business, you have a lot more to risk than someone who makes less money and has fewer career options.

For start - ups, making those first few sales can be the hardest part, writes Chris Savage (savagethoughts.com), co-founder of Wistia, a video hosting site.

Instead just start with making a few simple changes to your day.

A few other pieces compared entrepreneurship to the movie making business with titles like «How Starting A Business Is Like The Making Of Star Wars» (which I want to read) and «How Starting a Business is Like Casting a Movie» as well as the slightly esoteric «How Starting A Business Is Like Casting «la Dolce Vita.»&making business with titles like «How Starting A Business Is Like The Making Of Star Wars» (which I want to read) and «How Starting a Business is Like Casting a Movie» as well as the slightly esoteric «How Starting A Business Is Like Casting «la Dolce Vita.»&Making Of Star Wars» (which I want to read) and «How Starting a Business is Like Casting a Movie» as well as the slightly esoteric «How Starting A Business Is Like Casting «la Dolce Vita.»»

There are entrepreneurs reading this who, with a few adjustments to their strategy, can start making the kind of income they want and are capable of making.

I succeeded in making writing a habit a few months later when I started with a goal of producing just 50 - words a day.

The corporation announced Wednesday that it started allowing clients to view bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on its website, making it one of the few established institutions that have warmed up to cryptocurrencies.

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.

Just a few years after he started making barbeque mats and other vinyl products from factory scraps, in 2001, Kuepfer was shipping truckloads of custom - cut vinyl pads geared to the laminated floor industry to U.S. distributors.

So before I started putting my business plan into action, I made sure to stash nine months of living expenses — accrued during my few years of working on Wall Street — in a savings account.

Whether you've been with Instagram since the beginning and are still miffed about the changes to your timeline or just started gramming, PCMag has rounded up a few tips that could make your photos stand out and garner you acclaim — or at least a like or two more than before.

That's probably going to change once phones using Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 start rolling out over the next few weeks, but for now, the Mate 9 and its Huawei - made Kirin 960 chip have zero problems opening apps, installing apps, running multiple apps at once, or flipping through menus.

«Even though my new job came with less money and a 5 a.m. start time, it was the best decision I have ever made,» said Grybek, talking about her second job at a nationally syndicated TV show a few years back.

The scale required to show the 2010 numbers makes it difficult to see the relative differences in the last few years, so here is the same data starting at January 2011:

Make sure to start searching a few months before you intend to start, since many companies will need time to review applications and interview candidates.

And starting this week, a lucky few — 1,500 — will see Tumblr's first - ever instant messaging feature make its debut.

But in a tepid economy, and with few signs consumers were willing to spend on anything but lower - ticket items, Mattel started to make new demands.

As you can see, starting a business involves making quite a few initial decisions and getting policies and paperwork in place.

Now I'm making way more per assignment than I did when I first started a few years ago.

While finding the right manufacturer or vendor can sometimes be challenging for entrepreneurs starting out in the field, here are a few companies that will make the process easier for you.

The debt deal, which came on Friday after about 19 similar summits since the start of the debt crisis (with few results), called for countries that use the euro to allows two European bailout funds to aid European banks directly, rather than make loans to governments to bail out the banks.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

We've determined over the last few months every decision we make at Fab should start with a simple question: Will this make our customers smile?

Fitness resolutions are a dime a dozen following the start of a New Year, but statistics prove more than half of all people who make fitness resolutions break them within a few months of starting.

If you are just starting your career, have a large upside income potential, or are expecting a big salary bump in the next few years, having the ability to make after - tax contributions to your nest egg is important.

By keeping these few simple tips in mind, though, you can definitely make the most out of your class and quickly start realizing your fitness goals!

To make sure you don't start working with a partner who is on the verge of bankruptcy, Google the company and check out the first few pages to see what comes up, as well as the «News» section.

To screen for «dividend growth» shares that may have lower starting yields but have more potential to grow future payouts at high rates, we simply need to make a few adjustments to our screening parameters.

I've got a few ideas how the Prime Minister - designate, Justin Trudeau, could make a fresh new start.

Whether you are someone who seeks professional advice or likes to research and make decisions on your own — below are a few common retirement saving misconceptions that I wish someone had told me about when I started investing.

Dunning recently cautioned that Ottawa's attempts to cool Toronto and Vancouver's overheated housing markets, by making it tougher for first - time buyers to qualify for financing, is likely to result in a 25 to 30 per cent decline in housing starts by 2015 and 150,000 fewer construction jobs across the country.

This gives you just enough data to get started building your keyword prospect list, but to really make this comprehensive (and I recommend the shotgun approach when doing keyword research — starting with a large population of targets and narrowing it down based on specifics) you need to leverage a few other tools.

Scrofano said he is confident the start - up is giving consumers what they want by making every day a good day to «shop small» — a trend that has grown over the past few years with Small Business Saturday, along with the popularity of sites like Etsy and Amazon Handmade.

As taxes and costs rise, promised green jobs fail to materialize, and few others in the world make these sacrifices, Canadians may soon start demanding a new approach that puts affordability on par with sustainability — and political accountability.

A $ 1 billion payment would extend the wait for Uber to start making a profit and may even place it in deeper danger of going bankrupt in a few years.

In this case, you might buy a few years before retirement a deferred income annuity that would start making payments in the year you plan to retire.

The Bank also made substantial use of foreign exchange swaps during the past few months to manage domestic liquidity, though in net terms the swap position (at $ 30.1 billion) has not changed much since the start of the financial year.

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

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you 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's 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 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 it 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 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

In addition, max out all deductible savings plan - for example if you started a job mid-year you can withhold nearly all of your paycheck to a company retirement plan the last few checks of the year to get the maximum amount in for the year - and make sure you contribute to HSAs - or any other deductible plans you are eligible for.

Hope to do some research on this over the next few weeks and then start making some moves...