Sentences with phrase «much less revenue»

We always make sure our ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot more ebooks.

Amazon and other retailers will offer much less revenue, but can still lead to sales.

Not exact matches

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

Unless you can sign up a hot college draft pick or persuade John Grisham to switch agents, it may be years before your literary agency or sports management firm can generate enough revenue to cover the cost of recruiting and servicing your clients — much less make a profit.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Business owners calculate how much rent they can afford as a percentage of annual sales — generally, it's less than 10 percent of projected gross revenues, Fetscher says.

While soccer only represented 10 % of Nike's business for the last fiscal year — much less than running and basketball — it was one of the faster growing parts of the business, with wholesale revenue rising 18 %.

«We expect it (revenue from big six) to be more or less like that this year, so it will be less than last year but now the declines are much smaller,» Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton told Reuters on a post earnings call.

Essentially our offer is that we handle the production & distribution and then share revenue with the people who help create the works for a period of time (12 months) in exchange for their work at half pay — As shoots only last a day or two max, there is very little risk for people to participate as it's a good deal and we already know everyone in the business so there is little downtime building any of the infrastructure or much less cold calling anyone

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

Put simply, the Laffer curve illustrates what happens when the government raises taxes too much — theoretically, it ends up bringing in less revenue than before the tax hike.

Its CEO has less than four years of professional work experience and a non-technical background (she has an MA in business management and dual BAs in Africana studies / Spanish), and is running a company whose market cap went from $ 7.2 m to $ 60m in a single month, despite not having a finished product or revenue, much less profit.

(It seems likely that the main rise in public spending and reduction of tax revenue over the 2008 - present period has been due to economic contraction rather than policy change - unemployed people claim benefits, don't pay tax on wages and pay much less VAT on purchases.

Moreover, while the graph above suggests that the Conservative Party are best equipped to manage a decline in revenue from subscriptions, they are perhaps much less able to sustain the decline in members.

New York City budget officials did not have much faith in Wall Street companies continuing to dole out big bonuses as city leaders planned on having less tax revenue in their 2014 - 15 budget.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

«What is much less clear are which specific revenue strategies will be used to finance the tax cuts and spending measures,» the report said.

Simmons College in Boston made headlines last week with the news that two online graduate degree programs it launched less than five years ago are on track to generate more tuition revenue than its 30 other graduate programs combined and nearly as much as its undergraduate offerings.

A recruitment process for new teachers that is much less effective than it might be does not result in the school district losing students or revenue, at least not within a time span or through a series of events that would make the connection discernible.

If more revenue comes from property tax which, generally speaking, is a more stable stream than sales and income tax that comprise so much of the State's GF, the district will have less exposure to decreases in state - supported LCFF funding.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

The revenue needed to sustain a small business is much less than to sustain a too big to fail - think about it - even if your store as as large as a borders it would still cost less to operate over all.

New York, NY (January 12, 2012)-- As more publishing revenue transitions to digital, publishers are less optimistic about the state of the book publishing industry in general and much less optimistic about their own company's chances at survival and growth, according to a Digital Book World survey conducted by Forrester Research, Inc..

They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $ 48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to «disrupt» them, and whose chief executive said recently «even well - meaning gatekeepers slow innovation» (where «innovation» is code - speak for «opportunities for me to turn a profit»).

Academic revenues are more predictable and have lower related costs of sale with resulting higher margins, and are much less reliant on retail bookshop sales.

Academic and professional revenues are more predictable and have lower related costs of sale with higher margins and are much less reliant on retail bookshop sales.

Kabbage has much less stringent requirements than Fundation, only requiring a minimum age in business of 1 year, an annual revenue of $ 50,000 and no minimum credit score for a line up to $ 100,000.

Most investors are craving for revenue and dividend stocks are pretty much the answer to this desire... unless they continue to starve with their bonds and CDs paying less interest than I pay my kids!

And so, evaluating its current valuation / prospects, I'd put much less weight on its inability to overcome an implacable secular trend which continues to negatively impact currency strategies, and put far more weight on its ability to grow passive hedging revenue at consistent super-charged rates for almost a decade now.

«For tax revenue reasons, receiving the tax revenue sooner makes much less sense than it used to,» he said.

At oral argument, plaintiffs described this case as part of a series of cases intended to move the entire industry... more and more to zero revenue sharing, based on the notion that zero revenue sharing is much less expensive for plans and for participants.

But again, this fair value estimate is a much less important component of any analysis & investment — it's all about Alphabet's ability to continue growing revenue & compounding earnings / value.

I've applied for credit cards using this blog as my business — they ask how long I've been in business and how much revenue I have, and my answers are less than 1 year and $ 0, respectively.

Just like the majority right now is going on large sales and bundling to their heart's content, if a majority did business like this the initial revenue would probably stagnate and be much lower than expected, but after the consumers got into their heads that the games they wanted would NOT follow the expected process, revenue would increase and maybe allow for less waste of resources on support (as you say) or channel them to good marketing campaigns that don't hurt either the consumers or the developers.

Since the cost of setting P and keeping the revenues is only P × dQ / 2, where dQ is the reduction in emissions, and since dQ is at first much less than Q, P can be set much higher than GFP, and a country like India will profit from the arrangement (not counting climate benefits).

Conservatives should embrace a carbon tax (a much less costly means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions) in return for elimination of EPA regulatory authority over greenhouse gas emissions, abolition of green energy subsidies and regulatory mandates, and offsetting tax cuts to provide for revenue neutrality.

This means the tax is now a much less efficient means of raising revenue.

You are implying that, if there were no environmental taxes, the UK government would have less tax revenue and the British public would suddenly find that their tax bills were much less.

2nd, by adding the rebate program the tax becomes a much less efficient means to collect revenue.

Since Australia exports a lot of embodied carbon, the tax on final consumption would raise a lot less revenue, and cause a much smaller economic shock.

Ray McCann, Partner at Pinsent Masons, says: «With ambitious targets to meet in terms of bringing in more revenue, it is no surprise HMRC continues to see what is a highly paid but relatively small group of individuals as offering maximum rewards in terms of tax take for much less effort.»

Like the system has become all about revenue and less (much less) about public safety.

As we anticipated when we built our initial revenue forecast for the game, it didn't spend long among the top grossing apps on the store, but consumer apprehension towards its $ 9.99 full game price tag has proven to be much greater than most analysts — ourselves included — anticipated, placing its conversion rate at less than 9 percent worldwide.

«With the increasing number of ICOs coming to market, it is an impossible task for anyone, much less platforms like Twitter or Facebook, to keep on top of which ICOs and cryptocurrencies are genuine versus frauds... Although certainly ICO advertising must have been a significant source of revenue for Twitter, the repercussions of fraudulent activities just weren't worth the risk.»

The fees are the issue with too small of a loan; since points are a percentage of loan amount, smaller loans produce less revenue - yet the time involved is the same (or close enough to not matter much).