Sentences with phrase «marketing costs against»

Also, always compare your marketing costs against your sales results.

Not exact matches

While Air Canada has dabbled in the low - cost market in the past, with brands like Zip and Tango, those were strictly domestic airlines designed to fight back against WestJet's growing popularity.

These models are attractive because companies can forecast revenue, but many have struggled to balance sales against steep marketing costs.

The smaller players have spent most of their time competing against each other in the «low - cost segment» of the market, which has barely made a dent in the business of the incumbents, said Macquarie Securities advisor Greg MacDonald.

They also find themselves up against a new kind of competitor — nimble, focused, entrepreneurial enterprises, deeply embedded in their home markets, with significant cost advantages, ready access to local talent and often a hard - driving founder.

Dollar cost averaging does not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

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Global steel markets are bracing for a spike in input costs against a slowing in demand that could pressure margins and push prices lower amid a glut in overall supply.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).

The Vanguard Group will cheerfully compare expense ratios of its funds against other funds, because Vanguard largely markets itself as the popularizer of low - cost index funds.4 Here for instance is a little thing from Vanguard's description of its Total Stock Market Index Fund:

It's still not great, of course, and as far as traditional equities markets go, a cost 50 % decline is a disaster, but in the cryptocurrency markets, and especially against the backdrop of the bloodbath we have seen across other points over the last few weeks, it's a drop in the ocean.

«With borrowing costs remaining low, and in fact declining, strong home ownership demand will continue to butt up against a constrained supply of listings,» said Jason Mercer, the board's senior manager of market analysis.

The cost of protecting speculative - grade bonds against default in the credit - default swap market climbed to its highest level since July 6.

But many fear a lawsuit against the cost - sharing payments could disrupt the insurance market.

The cost of insurance against defaults by European banks reached an all - time record for that reason last Friday, and banks stopped lending to each other on the interbank market «portending an imminent collapse of the financial system.

The ACCC's action against Coles could force more retailers to bake from scratch using bread pre-mixes — significantly increasing their costs — or stop marketing par - baked bread as being «baked in store.»

The service will come at a cost to Woolworths, mainly in extra labour, but will help the retailer defend its market share against Amazon, which is expected to launch its Australian retail operations before Christmas.

Weigh this up against the cost of some of the most expensive breast pumps on the market and you still make a saving.

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The county on Friday filed a federal suit against several national drug manufacturers that seeks to recoup some of the public costs associated with drug overdoses and change the way companies market their products.

And as you're competing against a global market, and you're trying to cut pennies off of the cost of your product, the faster you can get your trucks to where they need to be the less it's going to cost you,» Turner said.

Shimsky, a Hastings - on - Hudson Democrat who first introduced the plan on June 19, told the Review the legislation would be directed against a number of pharmaceutical companies that have used deceptive marketing of opioid painkillers, seeking punitive and compensatory damages for the costs already expended by Westchester County.

Out of the 777 marketing students studied over a five - year period, 86.1 per cent waited until the last 24 hours to hand in their work at only a slight cost on average score against early submitters at 64.04 compared to 64.32.

One reason that entrepreneurs have been reluctant to enter the schooling market is that they must compete against heavily subsidized public schools, which limits their ability to charge prices that fully cover their costs.

Traditional publishers assume all the risk; they pay the writer an advance against royalties and cover all the costs of marketing.

Knowing what it costs to edit and design a book and get it to market is the only accurate measuring stick against which you can evaluate a co-publisher's contribution.

They intend to undercut the local market by offering their device for $ 115 and compete against Sony and devices made by Positivo Alfa that cost triple the cost of the Kindle.

When you're in the Microsoft fold, she says, you're protected against Apple lawsuits, and Redmond also chips in with marketing costs and support for the developer community.

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A kal - el holiday season against ipad2 might just cost apple some much coveted market share.

2 - Editing the book 3 - Graphics and layout 4 - Production 5 - Distribution 6 - Marketing 7 - Sales 8 - Remuneration I analyzed my labor / capabilities / cost against «buying» those functions where it was a prudent business decision.

Barnes & Noble says that before publishers enacted agency pricing, it could not compete against Amazon: «[a] s a result of Amazon's pricing (which priced most bestselling books sold by Barnes & Noble below Barnes & Noble's, and Amazon's, direct costs), Barnes & Noble was losing substantial money in an effort to compete with Amazon's pricing, and was unable to gain significant market share.»

3) The costs of developing ebook platforms, ebook retailing sites and ebook distribution systems are high, the Irish market is small, while it might have been possible to forecast the potential to gain customers outside of the island, it is a difficult result to actually achieve (which makes EpubDirect's success all the more impressive) which mitigates against anyone investing in them

Ranging in cost from $ 199 for 8 GB and $ 249 with 16 GB of storage, the Nexus 7 will be competitively priced against the competition when it hits the market in July.

Making your money last as long as you do, keeping up with rising costs, and helping to shield your investments against market declines, these are just a few of the challenges you'll face as you consider ways to generate income in retirement.

IRR is also comparable against annualized market and fund returns, and cost of debt or leverage so it gives an excellent idea of portfolio performance.

The academic case against market timing has been critically dependent upon high transaction costs.

You have to balance the benefits of a buy - and - hold approach — such as lower taxes and transaction costs, the historical upward bias of the market and the peace of mind that comes from removing yourself psychologically from active investing — against the possibility of a major drawdown or a permanent loss of capital.

Dollar cost averaging does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market.

If these market internals remain resilient on a reasonable pullback, we could move about 1 % of assets into call options (essentially maintaining our defense against losses but allowing some participation in advances at the cost of modest time decay if the market is flat).

Financial challenges can include making your money last as long as you do, keeping up with rising costs and helping to shield your investments against market declines.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

If the market value of the securities held short increases (moves against you), it will cost more to close short positions, and money will be journaled (transferred) from margin and increase the short credit balance.

Diversification, asset allocation strategies, automatic investing plans and dollar - cost averaging do not ensure a profit and do not protect against a loss in declining markets.

Use of stock funds, vs. individual stocks, is an easy and low - cost way to guard against catastrophic events that regularly impact individual companies and avoids trying to pick out the relatively few winners in a market composed mostly of losers.

Automatic investment plans and dollar - cost averaging do not assure a profit or protect against loss in declining markets.

Therefore, as the U.S. dollar appreciates against a local emerging market currency the debt service costs rise and make a risky asset even more risky.

Fair - value accounting assumes that broader market risks — like another recession or financial instability — carry a cost that counts against revenue.

Dollar - cost averaging does not ensure a profit in rising markets or protect against a loss in declining markets.

During your career, you should make it one of your biggest trading goals to stick with the dominant market trends and avoid trading against them at all costs.