Companies most at risk include those that operate in markets with one or more of the following characteristics: - a small
number of competitors selling similar commodity products transparently priced; - a market with high fixed costs; and / or - a highly concentrated market.
Not exact matches
Larry Ellison, Oracle's executive chairman, said Sunday during the company's annual customer conference in San Francisco that he considers Amazon to be Oracle's
number one
competitor when it comes to the business
of selling computing capacity on demand, also known as cloud computing.
But, the model has been a major disappointment with sales in 2014 not even hitting the 100,000 mark while models from
competitors, like the Honda CR - V, for example, saw much higher
numbers to the tune
of 350,000 examples
sold.
A: I won't share the exact
number of copies
sold of that title because there are a lot
of copycats who picked up on the ranking
of last year and have their competing products out there — and it's certainly not rocket science on what I did — and I certainly don't need other
competitors but I will tell you this: the
number of sales so far through the end
of November
of that one title equals all
of 2010.
Now, Microsoft simply hides
numbers bc they've
sold less than half
of their biggest
competitor and it would look bad.
In an interesting post-auction wrap up Kelly Crow
of the Wall Street Journal reported that even though most
of the media melted over the Bacon sale, the tallied sales
numbers from both auction houses show a much more balanced picture with Christie's slightly edging over their
competitors and
selling $ 1,076,080,500 worth
of art versus Sotheby's $ 1,021,465,430.
The next closest
competitor was the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid at a mere 19,672 units (that is fewer than the total
number of Nissan LEAF all electric cars
sold that same year).
With a market - wide average residential sales price
of $ 932,000, we ranked
Number 1 in the following market segments: Gulf - Front Sales Market - Wide (33 % greater than our closest
competitor) Lakefront Sales Market - Wide (31 % greater than our closest
competitor) Listings
Sold In - House Destin to Rosemary Beach (27 % greater than our closest
competitor) Listings
Sold Destin to Rosemary Beach (23 % greater than our closest
competitor) Inviting.
There is something wrong with a profession where an Agent can list and a
sell a large
number of homes in a given year, where the SELLER NETS 2 to 3 % higher cash in pocket using my services versus a
competitor and still I am can't publish it because it infers I do a better job than my
competitor not just a DIFFERENT result.
You have the confidence that your skills to
sell real estate are sharper than a
number two pencil, but still face challenges getting the word out there amongst a sea
of competitors.