Sentences with phrase «n't leverage your points»

While credit card rewards are often seen as something you earn for your own use, there's no reason you can't leverage your points to buy things for others.

Not exact matches

If you aren't using every point of leverage you have as a business, then you're wasting effort and energy.

«Most people who are fresh out of college have very little leverage in the negotiation process, because you typically can't point to any concrete workplace results you've accomplished yet,» said business consultant Dorie Clark, author of «Stand Out.»

Using examples from popular shows, movies or music to express a point not only leverages people's emotions, it helps them connect to the message.

His core point is that, while the leverage ratio is a good tool in regulating bank capital, it is not a good idea to make it the only tool, and it's not as simple or as immune to gaming as its supporters think.

Probably the two biggest points of pushback were that Google could build an encrypted system if they wanted to (as I explained on Monday, they already tried, and they can't really exercise Android leverage right now), and that carriers could build a federated key exchange system and / or something akin to the certificate authority framework that undergirds HTTPS.

From the point of view of the banks, it does not matter how exactly they leverage their reserves.

This means that account holders with an existing points balance, won't be able to leverage a new card to improve the value of their accumulated rewards.

They may go quite far in pointing out how those purposes are not well served by current practices, but as participants they have no leverage for asking about fundamental purposes and assumptions.

I don't see secession as a legitimate point of leverage except as a last resort.

The MSU band entry and tributes are magnificent, alumni and HS band days — brilliant, tailgating — top notch, rivalries — pure hate, Sparty — iconic, new uniforms — on point (love the white helmets); MSU leverages the «Spartan» mascot and the Illini just don't have that anymore

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

Of course, after leading what appears to be a smear campaign against Freeman and thoroughly destroying any chance of the quarterback rejoining the team at any point in the future, the Bucs don't exactly have much trade leverage.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

The Old Trafford club have a long - standing interest in Gareth Bale — both for his quality and what he represents as a star signing — and know that, if it does get to the point where De Gea's move to Real Madrid is not preventable, they can leverage the situation to try and get the Wales forward.

If you do that, you may end up agreeing to things you don't care much and end up with precious little leverage when a point you really care about shows up at the bottom of the list - since you've already agreed to the rest.

It's a classic jujitsu idea — use your enemy's strengths against him, in this case leveraging off of the favorable attention Gerlach has been getting over his puppy bill to point out something that he IS N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working on.

Lawmakers at this point have taken the unusual step of not introducing Cuomo's ethics measures as a way of preserving some leverage over the governor during the negotiations.

It's a worthwhile, if provocative, question that becomes even more interesting when you consider it in the context of an online left made up of blogs big and small as well as network - based organizations whose mailing lists constitute their major — if not only — point of political leverage.

Understanding key points about Blob Lifting such as technique (yes, there is technique; don't let anyone fool you), chalk application, positioning and leverage, as well as the proper way to train on the Blob, are what you really need.

«From our perspective, we are looking for leverage points that can serve us well and have us not be wasteful,» Stone said.

The big platform companies make sure they have it as a checkbox feature - they need to have music - but it's not really important as a point of strategic leverage anymore.

When you can't intellectually debate a point, it all comes back to leveraging linguistic semantics.

The point is, you don't have to «sell» anyone on the idea of going to Amazon or Apple to purchase, so you as an author leverage the retailers credibility in the engagement and sales process of your books.

From a commercial stand point it probably doesn't make sense to get one these days unless you are already famous (so you have some leverage) or you have a way to use the existence of the contract to get additional compensation from someone else

So they are using their market leverage to scrape and gut suppliers, demanding more and more fees and greater share of the proceeds to the point that publishers and authors can't make profits once Amazon takes their cut — they are squeezing.

This means that account holders with an existing points balance, won't be able to leverage a new card to improve the value of their accumulated rewards.

The huge earnings points me to the massive leverage the Fed uses, 44x, which it would / should not let the banks it regulates operate at.

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 followingnot 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 followingNot 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 followingNot 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 followingNot 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 followingNot 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

My second point is that if you mention a HELOC in your post you are not talking about the SM, you are just simply using leverage to invest.

Third, leveraging only gives you an advantage to the extent that you can earn a higher return on your assets than your debt costs — so in effect points # 2 and # 3 are two ways of looking at the same thing, not two different benefits of leverage.

Certainly not his little helpers at TLI... Charles Tracy & Ian Reynolds, both on the board since day one, deserve their fair share of the blame for a litany of mishaps & generally nasty surprises over the years... leverage, currency hedging, tax liabilities, credit exposure, life expectancies, policy expiries, premium increases & whatever other risks / issues I may have forgotten at this point.

I believe current net debt poses no significant risk at this point — it should NOT be paid down, rather it should be maintained as prudent leverage to enhance returns.

Hi Spencer, the leverage and the concept of float is a good point, and it's one that I thought about as well, but I don't think you can compare it this way.

Even if you are like I am and don't set out to become a mileage millionaire with gift card purchases, you can still earn several thousand extra miles and points each year by making a few strategic gift card purchases by leveraging category bonuses on your rewards credit cards.

You will see their offers everywhere, online, TV, newspapers, but the average person doesn't know that they can take those free awards points and leverage them to go further.

Not all points or rewards will give you the best value, but with a little research and knowledge you can take the points you have and make them go further, you can leverage what you have to make 50 % more by using a simple technique.

If these two points are in Asia, then we can leverage these flights easily, whereas before we had to make a phone call that may or may not have yielded results.

They can't be leveraged for higher return, either through the possibility of transfers to airline program or with increased earning through spend category multipliers (e.g., no extra points for using the card for dining, travel, etc.).

If you're not leveraging your favorite airline's online shopping portal, you are leaving miles — and possibly points — on the table.

Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the high life, but the truth is that our $ 250 hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was booked using an annual credit card award night when the room normally costs $ 300 - plus per night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per night; and most of our other flights were booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.

Not me so much, since at the point where I'm receiving foxed - point value I'm not longer interested, you no longer combine the rebate from travel or credit card spend with the leverage of the mileage program's bulk purchase of distressed inventory that allows you to take a small number of points and turn them into the sort of aspirational travel that would otherwise be out of reaNot me so much, since at the point where I'm receiving foxed - point value I'm not longer interested, you no longer combine the rebate from travel or credit card spend with the leverage of the mileage program's bulk purchase of distressed inventory that allows you to take a small number of points and turn them into the sort of aspirational travel that would otherwise be out of reanot longer interested, you no longer combine the rebate from travel or credit card spend with the leverage of the mileage program's bulk purchase of distressed inventory that allows you to take a small number of points and turn them into the sort of aspirational travel that would otherwise be out of reach.

The actual pointing and shooting of Another Episode is serviceable for the Vita, but still came off as somewhat stiff due to the fact that the Vita's analog sticks don't have quite the same amount of leverage and precision of its console counterparts, and slightly shaky due to some tricky automated camera movements that can hinder your line of sight.

-- it's not a pollutant, it's a product of every living creature's breathing, it's the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it's a product of all industrial burning, it's a product of driving — I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream.

And as we have pointed out recently, the panicky tone of environmentalists is owed not to the emergence of new climate research but to their need to sustain leverage over a sympathetic establishment.

We would also point out that this isn't the only application of cleaner technology that makes military, as well as environmental, sense — in fact the Rocky Mountain Institute has long been touting the Pentagon as a key leverage point for development and adoption of post-petroleum technologies — most notably in their excellent volume Winning the Oil End Game.

Installing solar panels on your home isn't primarily about cutting your own personal impact — it's about making a strategic investment in an emerging clean energy infrastructure, and choosing a point of leverage where you believe you can create wider social change.

The industry - leading tools are decidedly not designed to facilitate collaboration on the important documents, organization or visualization of the few handful of significant documents into different perspectives of the case story, or facilitating the legal team's ability to see and exploit the critical leverage points to reach a faster, more favorable outcome.

Tom Collins makes the point that firms need to leverage off associates to increase profitability and suggests that smaller clients don't generate enough work to produce sufficient leverage.

It then feeds this information into a complex predictive algorithm that leverages the archived intelligence of legal experts who've explored these issues previously to compile a list of highly relevant case laws, thereby highlighting potential missing points of law, or alternative arguments not appraised prior.