Sentences with phrase «of dollars booking»

The education technology sector chalked up $ 1.42 billion in investments last year, the most amount of dollars booked since 2000, the peak of the dot - com boom, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource.

But if that were true, how do you account form the hundreds of millions of dollars each book in the series has generated as a movie?

Not exact matches

In addition to writing several best - selling books like The Road Ahead, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised billions of dollars to combat infectious diseases and elevate the quality of life for impoverished nations around the globe.

Make your shop known for something - a specific category (or two) of books, having some first editions for sale, all paperbacks a dollar and all hardcovers two bucks, and / or a swap program.

After spending all of 2016 meeting, befriending, and interviewing «top - performing» Millennials who've started companies worth billions of dollars collectively and influence hundreds of millions of people every month, Jared Kleinert wanted the readers of SBDIB to be the first to read his new book.

Dalhousie University economist Marina Adshade, author of an upcoming book based on her blog, Dollars and Sex, warns not to expect a windfall of tax revenue from a regulated sex industry.

According to the criminal complaint, McFarland told investors that Fyre Media, a web - based celebrity booking service, had earned millions of dollars in revenue in two years, while its actual revenue was $ 57,443.

Accenture is an example of what naming guru Alex Frankel describes in his book Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business as «the synthetic, just - add - water (and a lot of advertising dollars), umbrella name.»

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

After taking a very deep breath and then reading about the success of open book management at other organizations, I started to relay more specific dollar amounts to the team.

Self - publishing on Amazon is like putting an infinite number of your books in the center of the world's largest bookstore.It costs very little time and zero dollars to self - publish on Amazon.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

Nathan Barry, the founder and CEO of email marketing platform ConvertKit, made thousands of dollars from his three books.

Kelsey Humphreys made thousands of dollars from clients and speaking engagements within six months of publishing her book «Go Solo.»

These activities, which included writing a book and hosting podcasts, have led to millions of dollars in revenue and helped Likeable, my global social media firm, establish itself as a company to watch in the realm of marketing.

Hotel managers who fail to recognize your booking, sleazy locals who will try and squeeze every single dollar out of you, the occasional loss of electricity and bacteria that put your immune system to the test — it's all real, and it will happen to you.

It also held tens of billions of dollars worth of mortgage securities on its books, which proved to be its downfall.

For deeper research, order the council's book, Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers / The SCORE 2008, for about $ 200 from Amazon.

Expedia's rewards program gives members two points for each dollar of travel booked through its site, which can be used to book hotels or flights for yourself or someone else.

FORTUNE — One of America's most far - seeing companies, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the biopharmaceutical startup so memorably chronicled in journalist Barry Werth's classic book, The Billion Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug, is back.

Couche - Tard, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, reported a profit of US$ 146.4 million in its latest quarter, or 77 cents per diluted share for the 12 weeks ended April 28 compared with a profit of $ 117.8 million or 65 cents per share a year ago.

The company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, said it lost $ 3 million or three cents per share in the last three months of 2017, narrowing a loss of $ 8.9 million or 10 cents per share a year earlier.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

Eyal just sent round a note saying that last week brought in a million dollars in direct advertising bookings, positioning us well for a further rebound once the future direction of the business is clear.

«Whenever you're in a store and you pick up an item, hold it for ten seconds,» writes founder of The Simple Dollar Trent Hamm, in his book, «365 Ways to Live Cheap.»

Ninety billion dollars of books are going digital, and we're in the first inning of that.

Mitchell claims the book has saved him thousands of dollars.

RBI, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars and is also the parent of Burger King and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, said it earned US$ 395 million attributable to common shareholders or $ 1.59 per diluted share in its most recent quarter.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

In Michael Lewis» hugely popular book, Flash Boys, he documents the building of a $ 300 million dollar cable designed to cut the time a trade takes from 17 milliseconds to 13 milliseconds.

One major highlight of the Christmas Book is its «Fantasy Gifts» section, which offers billionaires who have everything the chance to buy one - of - a-kind luxury items, travel packages, and experiences that cost thousands — and even millions — of dollars.

Now we're seeing the result: $ 20 bottles of Pappy going for several hundred dollars, a cultish following for anything labelled «small batch» or «single barrel» and folks like me booking vacations in Kentucky to experience what some are calling the «Sonoma of the South» (and maybe score a coveted bottle of this fall's new Antique Collection from Buffalo Trace while I'm at it).

The low Canadian dollar used to be the main culprit in higher book prices, but lately the difference is more likely due to the influence of Canadian copyright rules, which grant Canadian distributors exclusivity — and allow them to add up to 10 % to the price of U.S. books.

To tidy up its books, HBC is looking to sell these leases back to landlords for an average of about 30 cents on the dollar.

A publisher pays the author an advance, which could be anywhere from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars, and then invests an enormous amount of resources in producing and marketing the book without any guarantee that it will sell.

In 2010, instead of partnering with the No. 1 search engine Google, he launched a million dollar marketing campaign for his book, «Decoded» that doubled as promotion for Microsoft's search engine Bing, which was fairly new to the market.

The book bashes the contractor for operating a revolving door for powerful government officials, hiring them for millions of dollars a year, then allegedly exploiting the connections to win business when they return to the highest echelons of government.

He is the author of two books, including «The Ten Trillion Dollar Gamble,» on positioning portfolios for the growing U.S. deficit.

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Earn three points per dollar when you book travel through the Bank of America travel center.

Unfortunately, it will also go into the books as a triumph of fear over hope, of choosing incredibly negative, personal attack ads over policy and vision and a revolting example that using taxpayer dollars to advertise your own party cause works.

Because you can earn thousands of dollars selling your consulting, coaching, products, programs and books — even if your audience is small.

Dan has sold millions of his books, including several best sellers, for ten of millions of dollars in sales.

In his book, «The Dollar Crisis», Richard Duncan cites the flood of cheap imported goods from China into the United States as a significant cause of deflation.

Could stand to learn a few things about becoming a recognizable name, a household brand or a leading expert like my clients who have appeared on the major national TV shows, in the most prestigious magazines, radio shows and Internet sites... and have helped sell millions of dollars worth of my clients» books, products, professional services, and promoted causes that have changed the world for the better, using popular media to tell their stories for over two decades?

I'm so - so as a writer, and am currently finishing up my second book (just write as a hobby), and in the past made about 30 - 50 dollars an hour as a free lance writer but that was a couple of years back, it was only for about 10 - 20 hours a month, and the gig just dried up.

«If you take this over the course of a 30 - year career and compound it,» one researcher told Malcolm Gladwell for his book Blink, «we're talking about a tall person enjoying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage.»

One dollar of every room night booked through April will be donated to the El Yunque Rainforest Restoration Fund, with the goal of raising $ 10,000.

How to Invest and Grow Your Wealth micro book, quickly and clearly leads you on the path of building hundreds of thousands of dollars for retirement.

Thailand's reserves are up $ 10 billion since the end of June (Thailand also has a big forward book, but that has been constant); it is now intervening at 33 baht to the dollar.