Sentences with phrase «making smaller the focus»

«By making smaller the focus areas of our department heads, it has allowed our Commissioner Sarah Merrick to really look at processing how we do things, how we can do it better or more efficiently,» she said.

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The goal is to make more small businesses aware of SBA services, an issue that Mills has said ought to be her successor's primary focus.

The companies that make it to this prestigious ranking are large and small, and come from many different industries, but they always share one trait: a tireless focus on their people.

Entrepreneur: Kiran K. Gill, President and CEO Headquarters: Robbinsville, N. J. Remain committed to your clients, focus on your goals and always remember that the actions you take each day, even the seemingly small ones, can make a difference.

To make the most of big data, small businesses must be laser - focused on their intentions and goals, being selective about what they consider, and disregarding the rest.

A renewed, entrepreneurial focus on doing more with less will truly help make small business the priority that it should be.

Blake, founder of The Nonverbal Group, helped me shift my focus from writing a great book — an overwhelming thought — to making small daily progress.

Many new marketers make the mistake of speaking to as broad of an audience as possible, but if you narrow your focus with more appropriate word choices (such as a larger or smaller vocabulary) and an appropriate tone (more formal or more casual), you'll amplify the effectiveness of your website.

A full 90 % of McElhanney's clients are repeat customers — proving that focusing on the small can help a business make it big.

Founded the same year as Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive's focus on media and internet investments has grown out of keeping a small amount of partners making ultra-focused investments.

Meanwhile Waugh is setting up a private investment company with a focus on making direct investments in small and medium - sized companies.

Small business owners should also look at how their competition ships from their e-commerce sites, he says, adding the focus should be on «who makes ordering online easy?»

The bottom line seems to be the same whatever the change you want to make — be it a huge career about - face, a new wellness routine, or an update of a stale product offering — don't focus on the end goal, but instead on the small experiments that will start you on the the journey there.

Particularly notable is Act - On's simple CRM integration, which can make it a good tool for businesses who want to start small, focusing on lead - management capabilities and grow their marketing efforts over time.

He adds, «A number of the ISPs that focus on small businesses have decided to pull away from DSL because it's hard to make that business pay off.»

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.

It sure would make it easier to focus on the small number you need to get more than half the market, wouldn't it?

«Taking a focused look at clarifying the regulatory environment around online lending, reducing some of the burdens of regulation on small and community banks, and reducing the burdens on community banks so they can go back to making more small - dollar loans is a good thing,» she says.

I don't want to say focus on the big stuff versus the small stuff, because sometimes the small things can make the biggest impact.

In the slides below, we're going to focus on what makes the best Echos stand out, be it the Echo Plus» extra smart - home radio, the Echo Dot's small size, the Echo Show's screen, or the Echo Tap's portability.

Consolidation among smaller carriers could be a boon for passengers, if it means they can make enough money to invest in better services, rather than focus solely on controlling costs.

The product also made an appearance, according to an anonymous tip we received earlier this year, in a focus group held by Google alongside products that might sound familiar after recent leaks: a smaller Google Home, a premium Chrome OS laptop, and other products, including a pair of smart headphones.

If you make the focus too wide you won't get as many passionate readers as you would if you were blogging about a small niche.

Find yourself craving more time to focus on what makes your soul happy rather than community building and small - talk?

I'd look into cheaper housing, cheaper vehicle and I agree w / the point about the college being one son needs to step up on and making even small savings, shelter, food and transportation the main focus of the budget.

That may sound like a small change, but it could make companies less vulnerable to damaging forms of activist investing — and make it easier for managers to focus on the long term.

It tilts smaller than our benchmark, with less of a value focus, and it makes a lot of sector bets, especially as it heavily underweights financials in favor of industrials, consumer cyclicals, and tech.

Our second priority is growing the number of marketers using our ad products, and we're making great progress... More and more small businesses are using our free Pages product — and we remain focused on converting these Page owners into advertisers.

We have been taking ongoing actions to make GE Capital smaller and more focused while maintaining its key capabilities to support financing for GE Industrial products.

Second, the small size of a typical Wingstop at 1,700 square feet and a singular focus on serving up bold, crispy wings made from fryers means low labor costs, and the potential for juicy profits.

I remember him being very explicit that the pathway to success was to focus on closing 1M + AUM clients and to not «waste time» on asset allocation decisions, instead taking no more than 10 to 15 minutes to assign this responsibility by making four phone calls to four pre-picked portfolio managers, a small - cap, a mid-cap, a large - cap and an international stock manager, each of whom should receive 25 % of the account's assets.

To fight competitive pressures, Whole Foods has moved to test a smaller store model, with its millennial - focused 365 by Whole Foods Market concept, which the company says will make it more productive.

The reason they focus on pickup truck sales is because small business owners tend to make up a large portion of the overall buyers of these types of vehicles.

The corporate trend has been towards smaller more focused companies that can make specific strategic decisions and better capital allocation plans rather than being obscured by the overall mass of the parent company.

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, small businesses spend 156 hours working on Form 1065 and Schedule C. Make those hours worth it by focusing attention on commonly overlooked deductions.

Ontario's focus on higher density housing made sense, he said, but developers skewed toward too many small, one - bedroom units.

Niche Websites: If blogging sounds too time intensive, then why not make a smaller one focused on one particular topic.

Based in a top - floor loft in Midtown Manhattan, CustomShow is made up of a small team with a strong customer focus and an emphasis on professionalism, ongoing learning, accountability, and quality of work life.

When it comes to profitability, most small businesses focus their attention on making sales and earning revenue.

Identifying which voters could be swayed in their decision - making, and then focusing on this smaller group at the expense of the broader electorate, is basic strategy.

This guy needs to clean up the site and focus more on traffic, less on making small change on ads.

Using an analytics package such as Google Analytics is recommended for all but the smallest campaigns as this kind of reporting system will show where site refinements need to be made — high bounce rates and declining visitor numbers will be picked up, suggesting that on - page efforts be focused in certain areas rather than spread around the site as a whole.

That's all I have to say I hope you take my advice it's a small thing that makes a big difference going forward don't try to be like the others focus on business guys like me and what we need and success will be around the corner.

Syria is a smaller country than Iraq, but the Surge focused largely (though not exclusively) on Iraq's Sunni areas — and Sunnis only make up about 20 percent of Iraq's population.

Agriculture and forestry services should focus on techniques that can make small farms viable productive units while protecting the integrity and productivity of land ecosystems.

Maybe we should focus on the big picutre and just make sure we don't harm the small groups.

Another comment Holmer liked to make by way of keeping his students focused theologically was, «Think small, don't think big!»

«When Booker Noe created Knob Creek ® Bourbon, he focused on his passion for creating a big, full flavored bourbon with the strength, care and patience that defined pre-prohibition whiskey — the way he thought real bourbon ought to be made,» said Halley Kehoe, Director of Small Batch Bourbons at Beam Suntory.

«So we're trying to make sure that we don't only focus on the major commodity brands, but also the smaller ones,» Sadoff continues.

Maybe going all organic all the time can be unreasonable in today's lifestyle, but focusing on making small changes every time you go to the grocery store makes it easy.