Sentences with phrase «of a larger business like»

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The group holds quarterly meetings at either the University of Minnesota or a local community center, or at large businesses like 3M or BAE Systems.

If you run a small business (or a large business), being a part of a documentary series might sound like a marketing, exposure, and credibility - enhancing dream... but only if you approach the project in the right way, and with the right people.

The lessons here are profound for businesses large and small trying to tap into the mind - boggling potential of the Chinese market, and which get the importance, like Zuckerberg seems to, of language localization to their business strategy.

In the absence of a federal policy for paid sick leave, it is remarkable that a large Fortune 500 company like Microsoft is now performing the role of setting employment policy for other businesses.

If your business model revolves more around river tours and large bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for human flesh, may do a better job of making your employees feel like they are part of something greater.

Ideally, lenders evaluating a small business for credit approval like to see up - to - date books and business records, a large customer base, a history of prompt payment of obligations, and adequate insurance coverage.

So I turned to a true expert on the subject: Ivan Misner, the founder of BNI, with over 220,000 members the largest networking and business referral organization in the world, and the author of bestsellers like Avoiding the Networking Disconnect.

If you run a large organization and are considering trying something new (launching a new product, rolling out a new service), tap into the start of your business and treat it like the early days.

With the benefit of hindsight, Novolker points out that for a business - to - business firm like his, many larger potential customers in the States may balk at the prospect of being the first customer, even if the supplier has a solid reputation in Canada.

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

With an editorial staff of more than 2,400 people, Bloomberg has topic - specific teams that are larger than the entire writing staff of a site like Business Insider.

Incumbents like First Data Corp., Vantiv Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s merchant services unit have long focused on winning business from large brick - and - mortar retailers, neglecting to spend a lot of time on the growing e-commerce sector.

The sharks are always disappointed with people who have an unclear idea of their profits — especially if their guessed numbers have a large range like from $ 100,000 to $ 200,000 as it shows how poorly they knows their own business.

I know if you're a young guy trying to start up a business selling dress clothes to older men, the idea of hanging out at some overpriced, elite club during the week after work might not sound like the most fun you've ever had, but in the long run this type of extracurricular activity might be worth the large bar tab and cigar scent on everything you own.

Cloud gaming was also the focus of a story I did for Canadian Business, which looked at how large studios are hoping for something like a Netflix of video games to emerge.

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

The new Cloud Auto ML (machine learning) service is part of a larger push by Google (goog) to convince companies to use its cloud computing and business - related services, like online storage or workplace software.

Smaller players such as Fairmont and Omni may feel compelled to offer instant rewards to get the attention of business travelers, though when it comes to perks like WiFi, even the larger players are capitulating to consumer demand; InterContinental newly instituted free WiFi this month to its higher membership tiers with universal access to all members beginning in 2014.

Large cable providers like Time Warner, meanwhile, have the potential to make up for some of their cord - cutting losses on the TV side through higher fees for their Internet service - provider business, since those who stream Netflix and other services tend to use up a lot more data by doing so.

PayPal is giving Startup Blueprint companies the star treatment, including «the kind of «white glove» support large companies like British Airways get, offering them a named, local contact at PayPal who will manage their account and help with their business models, plus access to startup mentors and evangelists,» John Lunn, global director of PayPal's developer network, told the Guardian.

«What we know is often small businesses don't have the access and don't have the ability to tap into larger markets, so a trade mission like this can actually make those kinds of connections.»

For companies such as Fitango, which has with a potentially large and diverse market, providing differing samples allows the company to reach more of its target audience with separate marketing for segments like education, business, and leisure.

Like many small businesses, he'll have a much larger pool of legal talent and resources to choose from.

While word of mouth could get you a little business, you may want to scope out places like Ikea, where people need help moving large items from the store to their homes.

That's one reason America's largest bank is now steering some $ 250 million annually into community - building investments like small - business development, job - skills training, and neighborhood revitalization, and deploying a «service corps» of advisers to help those investments bear fruit.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

Small merchants like my company take credit card security very seriously while some larger companies simply write it off as a cost of business.

Large online retailers like Amazon have an advantage in competitive pricing, as they can set the price low enough to run smaller retailers out of business.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

Even Fox with its large businesses looks like it is deciding it should either get bigger or sell; it also would be selling the businesses producing the minority of its free cash flow.

Lunn said: «We're also offering startups the kind of «white glove» support large companies like British Airways get, offering them a named, local contact at PayPal who will manage their account and help with their business models, plus access to startup mentors and evangelists.»

In their survey of 150 CIOs at mid-market and large companies across Europe and the U.S. with annual revenue between $ 500 million and $ 20 billion, executives said that projects like cloud computing and data analysis will see the most spending, while data warehouses, ERP implementations, and business intelligence tools will also make up a healthy portion of spending.

This philosophy has allowed me to become a best - selling author, self made millionaire in my twenties, international speaker, Entrepreneur's Top Ranked Personal Branding expert, and partner and host of the largest business show in America, Business Rockstars; Which is broadcasted on television and tens of millions of screens on airline companies likbusiness show in America, Business Rockstars; Which is broadcasted on television and tens of millions of screens on airline companies likBusiness Rockstars; Which is broadcasted on television and tens of millions of screens on airline companies like Delta.

Because, like their larger siblings, many small businesses rely on borrowed capital to fund growth and other initiatives, they should follow the example of larger companies that make funding business initiatives part of their annual strategic plan.

MFIs typically operate where there aren't many traditional financial institutions, like banks, to send large amounts of money to other businesses.

Micro-Loans The world of small business finance has changed a lot over the last several years as traditional lenders like banks have focused more on larger more established small businesses in need of larger loan amounts.

But there are sound business reasons for purchasing large amounts of inventory, like stocking up during an off - season.

With bootstrapping and a small convertible note funding, we have built a business that grew over 380 % YoY from 2016 to 2017, with over 300 businesses on our platform, ranging from large grocery chains like Roche Brothers, billion dollar food management companies like Compass Group, to hundreds of individual restaurants, caterers, and even food trucks.

Amir Elaguizy, the founder of Cratejoy, a platform much like Squarespace that allows entrepreneurs to create subscription businesses from scratch, believes the market is even larger than this, although it is hard to quantify it precisely because there isn't good data available.

For starters, Arts & Crafts merchants saw a 23 % gain from January to June of 2014, which makes sense as we see a larger trend of online shoppers looking to smaller businesses for these types of products, like with Etsy.

From wire transfers and automated clearing houses to dedicated invoicing and payment platforms like Due.com, the frequent and often large payments that businesses need to make have become a powerhouse of opportunity for finance firms.

But just like we had relatively little history of large - cap stocks that weren't large businesses, we have relatively little history of bond yields being so close to zero.

Over and above, the Street Food industry is a profitable industry and it is open for any aspiring entrepreneur to come in and establish his or her business; you can choose to start on a small scale in a street corner like the average mom and pop business or you can choose to start on a large scale with several food carts covering key cities with the view of selling franchise in future.

Due to a plethora of banking regulations, regulations that an alternative lender like ourselves doesn't have to withhold to, banks send you through a large amount of red tape to determine whether or not they will provide you with a small business loan.

says Shannon Liss - Riordan, an attorney who likes to sue large businesses on behalf of workers.

«As Wall Street firms offer increasingly complex electronic trading services, they can not use new technology to exploit their clients in service of their business relationships with large industry players, like Bank of America Merrill Lynch did here.»

This «data driven» philosophy of business is a fashionable one and has long been a strategic tent - stake of large IT giants like IBM, SAP, Oracle and Informatica.

I think the valuation is just average, but I think if this develops into a larger issue then customer attrition comes into play, which is a problem for a bank like Wells that relies on its huge business that it does in the retail bank (57 % of its income comes from the retail bank, of which a large percentage is high margin revenue that comes from cross-selling, the very practice that it will now almost certainly begin to slow).

Tmall, which serves as a gateway to China for large foreign brands, controlled six of every 10 dollars spent overall for business - to - consumer sales online in China during the second half of last year — and even more in sectors like apparel.

I like LendingTree because they have one of the largest mortgage lending networks online, and they aggressively compete for your business.