Sentences with phrase «more spending these big»

But I didn't realize how much more spending these big issuers are doing to attract consumers to their credit cards.

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MONTREAL — Watching television on the Internet is cheap and convenient, but so far only a small number of Canadians have cut the cord on traditional viewing as TV providers offer discount prices and spend more on programs to keep customers who pay bigger monthly bills.

Obviously in this hypothetical situation, MegaAle Pubs has a bigger budget and can spend more on Web site design, copywriting, and search engine optimization than Alter's Ale House, and will likely get many more visitors because of it.

Most of the big businesses are known to spend even more than 10 percent of the total revenue earned on improvement of products and introducing new ones.

Non-Prime users spend a little more than half that ($ 700), but they may be picking up the tab elsewhere, like in the cost of gas to shop in - store, the higher price of items from big - box retailers, and shipping from other stores.

Incidentally, those keeping score should chalk a big one up for Washington's new trade policy: Merkel finally relented last Saturday by promising to de-emphasize Germany's traditional export - led growth strategies — and to generate more spending by boosting domestic demand.

I spent $ 150,000 on the first restaurant, then more and more to make each one bigger and better.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

And as Big Data grows inexorably bigger, we'll spend less time stumbling in the dark, searching for a connection, and more time actually connecting.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

These tend to be more expensive, but it's worth spending more on an ad that is going to make a bigger impact.

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

«Where we need innovation and where I think we are going to finally see social entrepreneurs spend more and more time is the public sector, because the big challenge that is facing every community on the planet is that government and public policy are not moving at the pace of technology or even meeting expectations of constituents,» says Blumenthal.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

The walled - garden nature of Facebook in particular has come under scrutiny, as they've recently had significant problems regarding the accuracy and efficacy of their advertising methods, with several big brands opting to reduce their ad spend on the site until more accurate metrics are released.

Since arriving at the chain in September 2014, Shelagh Stoneham, Shoppers» senior vice-president of marketing, said her team has been engaged in market research and strategic planning that has led to a bigger marketing spend, an increased television presence, more online video and new partnerships with Women of Influence and the entertainment show ET Canada.

Chinese tourists in South Africa will soon be able to spend more easily thanks to the world's biggest payments platform.

What's more, those three big streaming services are also facing a growing list of competitors, including some with very deep pockets, as Apple and Facebook have reportedly committed to spending $ 1 billion apiece on original series in the next year to build up their own streaming video businesses.

The US spends more on space exploration than any other country in the world.A big chunk of this investment goes to NASA, the country's leading agency for space exploration.

Or maybe your audience members are middle - aged, spend more time on Facebook than other social media outlets and have shown that they spend big on online purchases they value.

«It has more [monetization] than we expected; as users build their Pokémon inventory, spending money becomes needed to store, train, hatch and battle,» Macquarie Securities said in a note to clients, adding that purchases so far in Australia were not being driven by big spenders but by a large number of users.

Beane, however, didn't have those big bucks to spend with the A's, so he instead focused on what he felt were more important statistics, such as on - base average and slugging percentage.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

As part of the explanation as to why Europe gives proportionately more ODA, Gunzburg noted that countries with bigger welfare states — like those for which the Scandinavian nations are famed — tend to pay higher taxes, leading to more government revenue that can be spent on aid.

The big guys have been able to spend more, have had access to more useful troves of data and have been the only ones who can work with super-powerful game - changing technologies.

Either the public is becoming increasingly willing to see that percentage rise, or if that's not the case, there will be a large void left as the biggest chains chase the smaller minority that do want to spend more.

That's a bigger impact than most economists expect given the skewed nature of the tax cuts toward wealthier people, who are more likely to save than spend.

Usually, the biggest celebrities just kept increasing their spending the more they made, until one day they realized they had run out of money despite having tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Happy customers equal big profits, as they more than double the spending of their passive peers.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

More recently, he spent a big part of July bumming around France with Lance Armstrong's team during the Tour de France.

If you hold yourself to the standard of making a product that is so good people spontaneously recommend it to their friends, and you have an easy - to - understand business model where you make more than you spend on each user, and it gets better not worse as you get bigger, you may not look like some of hottest companies of today, but you'll look a lot like Google and Facebook.

... Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health care entitlements — because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking.»

As you can see, although Alberta was the worst offender in terms of the discrepancy between how big the government predicted the deficit was going to be in fiscal 2013 ($ 882 million) and how big it expects it to be now ($ 3.9 billion), it is still the only province without net debt (that is the accumulated total of annual deficits, which, in turn, result from the government spending more than it generates in revenues every year).

But securing sales funnels is about more than just spending big.

If you talk to the folks in the hotels as the big groups are coming through, people are just spending more on individual events,» Nassetta said.

You will make less buys, spend less on commissions, you will understand and follow more easily your holdings and, most important of all, you will cultivate true patience and the art of punching big when one of your companies stock price is suddenly very attractive.

Instead of amassing a big user base for a higher valuation, they are spending more time on how to maintain users, how to bring more value to them and solve their real problems.

Microsoft plans to spend $ 5 billion on the internet of things, and it's more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements.

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

Its international business, the term it uses for «high roller» gamblers, was hurt by Chinese restrictions on funds transfers and reduced visits by big - spending customers, with earnings down by more than two - thirds.

«If you live in a big city and need to spend more on housing due to work and the current rental market, it's OK to do so as long as you adjust some of your other discretionary spending,» says Ash Exantus, director of financial education at BankMobile, a digital banking platform.

The move is a big gamble on the part of Governor Stephen Poloz, who hopes the rate cut will both spur companies to spend and help fend off low inflation, but the risk is that Canada's already over-indebted households will put themselves in even more danger by taking on excessive leverage.

Why: There just aren't enough great VR experiences, but perhaps Facebook can get people spending more time in their headsets by creating a virtual big screen for 2D content.

People with a present time perspective, for example, might be more interested in making a big salary now (and perhaps spending it!)

There will be $ 5.77 billion more for health care spending in the new budget with the biggest chunk for the newly created Saskatchewan Health Authority.

This property is 5 times bigger so you will have to spend 5 times more on upkeep 25 000.

The deal included a variety of specifics, including new funding for disaster relief and opioid treatment, but more specifically, it extended current spending levels until March 23 and trusted Congress to use the intervening time to pass appropriations bills (or one big omnibus deal) in accordance with the terms of the deal.