Sentences with phrase «middlemen taking»

In 2017, an estimated $ 223.74 billion will be spent worldwide on digital advertising, with middlemen taking up to 75 % of the investment, and advertisers losing another $ 16.4 billion to ad fraud.

No distribution costs, no retailers and middlemen taking their cut, no second hand market diverting funds away from the publisher's hands.

«We were probably relying too much on outside consultants, (and) had too many middlemen taking pieces of the project off the top, making it run slower and in a more costly fashion.»

These venture - backed platforms have revealed themselves simply as an injected middleman taking away direct client traffic to SMBs and slowly becoming their biggest competition.

Or is it you publishers are just too cheap to invest some of that money you've scammed from authors over the years to build some infrastructure to sell direct to customers because you know that without a middleman such as Amazon and Apple, you will no longer be able to shield exactly how much you've scammed from authors by claiming the middleman took a big chunk of it?

The way that will work is to allow passengers and drivers to interact without having to pay in USD or having a middleman take a fee for each transaction.

If you buy direct from BuyCashFlowProperties.com, you'll be buying properties direct, with no middleman taking a referral fee!

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Ordinary investors, he says, are losing billions to unscrupulous middlemen who gain huge profits without taking any risks.

The middleman can be a merchant who purchases the goods and then resells them, or they can be an agent who acts as a broker but doesn't take title to the stuff.

It was a smart move, because it let Apple take advantage of growing interest in disintermediation — the removal of traditional middlemen, such as retailers, from the buying and selling equation.

They've taken out the middlemen and added costs of showrooms and as a result, offer an often superior mattress for less money and less hassle than you'd find in a brick - and - mortar store.

Blockchains eliminate the risk of having a middleman who defrauds someone on either side of the transaction or who takes the money and runs.

Create a platform where you can take out the middleman.

As the company describes in its report on the disruption of Uber, «Wherever a middleman stands astride a market of service providers and consumers taking a cut for matchmaking and managing data, there is huge potential for disruption.»

C.K. has agreed to take back the film, and unlike many of the others caught up in the wave of accusations, he might be best poised to return to the entertainment fold without a studio or network middleman.

Pastina: In theory, it takes out the middleman because you can share distributed ledgers back and forth.

«No merchant service provider riding on the traditional interchange rails can offer all - inclusive pricing because there are three or four middlemen who take a cut of every transaction,» says Gallippi.

It does not require middlemen for Bitcoin transaction to take place; all you need is an internet access and a Bitcoin address.

In order to convert from e.g. Yen to Euro, one must first convert from Yen to USD and then USD to Euro (taking the USD as the «middleman»).

International transfers can take days to clear, with large and unpredictable fee costs for investors due to exchange rates, taxes, and fees charged by middlemen banks.

I love importing products and goods that are hard to find here in the U.S. Or products with big mark - ups where (I think) the middleman is taking far too much for his share of the pie.

The new owners haven't even fully moved in to the proverbial house yet before Jeter is asking the middleman real estate agent to fire the groundskeeper that has been taking care of the property for decades.

What struck me about Unity ’08 from the start was that it attempted to be online - based but went against the very thing that makes the internet most revolutionary: the «net disintermediates, i.e., it takes OUT the middleman.

That means that when you take out a credit card or a mortgage or a refinancing from Bank of America, you're essentially borrowing from the state; the «private» bank is simply taking a cut as a middleman.

But many of the technologies that are now advancing most rapidly are ones that cut out the middleman — that Darwinian mediator, natural selection — allowing us to take direct control of our internal environment and push it forward, even when the niche is unchanged.

And when you're ready to buy, we take you directly to the store because we're not the middleman.

So here's their brainchild: a company that takes the middleman out of manufacturing, bringing you beautiful, amazing quality designer dresses and a far more reasonable price point.

It's only a matter to figure out whether you want to take the anchor role or want to work as a middleman.

«Often, the school board and district staff are considered no more than middlemen in the education enterprise, passing federal and state funds on to schools - where the «real work» of education takes place - and keeping track of school compliance with federal and state laws, regulations and policies.»

Making the ultimate decision to leave their homeland, and paying a middleman a hefty sum, Saeed and Nadia are led to a door that takes them to a refugee camp on a Greek Island.

Right now the NextBook tablets tie - in with the Borders ebook store, which is actually Kobo's store, so it looks like they are taking out the middleman in Borders.

There are no middlemen; just authors and ebook sellers — the ebook sellers even take care of payment processing and fulfillment.

There used to be generally one middleman who took care of all the details: publisher, record label, network.

I won't say that all Lulu covers are ugly — they have some good designers working for them and can produce good covers; however as a big company, Lulu.com is taking a cut and paying the designers less (so you're paying extra for the middleman).

It doesn't do anything to take out the middleman, which would have put more money into the hands of the publishers and authors.

By cutting out the middlemen who take the vast majority of the money, self - publishers can often simultaneously charge readers a lot less for a book while still making a greater profit per book.

I think if you go through a middleman like Smashwords it could take longer for the delisting.

Now, people with creative talent can easily go straight to market, cutting out the middlemen who take all of the profit.

Below, John Green, accepting the Indie Prize given by the American Booksellers Association to writers who best represent commitment to independent book stores, calls «bullshit» to the concept that authors like him, who speak directly to their readers via social media, don't «need the value - sucking middlemen of bookstores and publishers and in the future... no one will stand between author and reader except possibly an e-commerce site that takes just a tiny little percentage of each transaction.»

Obviously it looked more profitable to give a middleman 50 - 70 % of their gross revenue than to take 100 % of a smaller pile...

It was clear, I continued, that it was going to take much more effort to convince a new market (and a new middleman) of these farmers» reliability.

With authors — self - published and traditional, alike — taking on more marketing responsibility in this new digital era, a direct sales channel also eliminates any walls or middlemen between publishers, authors, and readers.

Whilst this was probably true in many cases, I do believe that things have changed in recent years, especially with the arrival of ebooks that cost nothing to publish and allow authors to cut out the middleman who would take so much of their profits.

One of the great things about indie publishing is that you take back control of the book itself from the middleman.

The sharing economy is taking out the middleman and putting consumers together with their community, so both can benefit.

The SRO is a kind of middleman, who executes the will of the regulator, but takes into account the special conditions in each market, and talks with the regulator about where they might be wrong in what they would ordinarily do.

The basic pitch of peer to peer lending is that it takes the middleman out of the consumer lending process.

Peer - to - peer lending removes the middleman, so you could pay less for the loan, but it may come with more risk and could take more effort and time to put in place.

But if you choose to use a debt settlement firm as a middleman, take note of a recent rule overhaul by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

«The theory behind peer - to - peer lending is you is take the middleman out so you get a lower interest rate,» Berger says.