Sentences with phrase «of getting traction»

With power delivered to all four wheels, there's a better chance of getting traction in ice, snow, and slush.

Now that I'm running down a long queue of mostly ready posts, it's interesting to see which of them get traction and which don't.

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«We saw the cheap Chinese drones coming in and a bunch of new companies like 3D Robotics starting up, and getting lots of traction and VC money.

A monitor in the centre of the room acts as a digital scoreboard, ranking staff in real time on the quantity of articles they've written, the amount of online traction their work is getting and how much it's being shared on social media.

As I always say, the «riches are in the niches» — the more specific you can be in terms of what types of professionals you target on LinkedIn, the better traction your post will get.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

While Apple is said to have floated this kind of offering in the past, with a $ 30 per month service in 2009 that didn't get much traction, the tech giant has largely stuck to developing its $ 99 TV box.

I have constraints in that I have to meet quarterly numbers, which is a good thing — it's certainly good discipline — but it's a bad thing as well because if I wanted to invest, for instance, a $ 100 million to just make my brand name more accepted for two quarters and in the third quarter I'll get traction, that's not an option I would consider without a lot of pull.

Test the waters with a website and an inexpensive Google AdWords campaign to see what kind of attention you can attract and if it looks like you can get enough traction to stay alive.

Turnoff # 3: Overstressing how great the business is I can't count how many times I've heard a founder say, «We've got tons of traction without any marketing investment,» or «These financial plans are extremely conservative.»

Companies can expect to receive some funding to get started or gain traction, but the amount of the stipend varies, as does the amount of equity the accelerator receives in return.

We are at the very early stages of this movement but it is gaining traction and going to get better and better.»

«I am extremely pleased with the performance our team delivered this quarter and the strong traction we are getting in the market,» said David Dickson, President and Chief Executive Officer of McDermott.

Apple has got a lot of traction behind the iPad and that's a great form factor but it's not the complete article.

«The sky's the limit, but you have to get in the air to see how far you can reach the stars» and «My biggest fear is that we will run out of cash before we achieve traction and meaningful growth, and everyone's work will be for naught.»

But some startups are getting traction even without leveraging the bleeding edge of technology.

In my new book How to Get PR for Your Startup: Traction Cynthia Johnson, director of social media marketing at RankLab and editorial director at Social Media Club says it ``..

It has since invested heavily to develop clientele in Latin America and the Asia - Pacific region, and is getting enough traction that the uncertainty south of the 49th parallel isn't a liability.

In How to Get PR for your Startup: Traction, they lay out some key ways to garner press coverage for your company, without having to pay PR companies large amounts of money.

In particular, VR and 360 video are getting a lot of traction, and brands are starting to use these formats in very innovative ways.

Still, the strong growth for Adidas in the second quarter, which builds on a 21.8 % increase a year ago after two years of declines, implies the turnaround story has got some traction.

A company knows it's starting to get some traction when it's called the Uber or Airbnb of its industry.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

A new wave of ecommerce startups is getting traction in the marketplace by marrying high - quality editorial with online shops boasting fast delivery, excellent customer service and lust - worthy products...

Short segments tend to get more traction on social media with niche audiences, says the show's producer, Steve Pratt of Pacific Content in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A new wave of ecommerce startups is now getting traction in the marketplace by marrying high - quality editorial with online shops boasting fast delivery, excellent customer service and lust - worthy products.

Google has finally decided to «pivot» — i.e. discreetly bury — the tenacious zombie that is Google +, dismembering a behemoth project that never as a singular thing got much traction in apparent hopes of salvaging the few aspects of the social network that did work.

The challenge is that in order to land an initial and subsequent rounds of venture capital investment, investors (particularly east coast VCs), want to see evidence of market traction in the form of product sales and revenue before they'll get behind an idea.

«They've got terrific traction in a very interesting space, but they're going to have to be very flexible and relentlessly focused on the needs of their customers,» says CitySearch's Layton.

««We offer a plethora of programs, but they're not getting the traction we'd hope given the investment we're making.»

Regardless of your approach, pals offer a big payoff, because they also build traction you can use later to get further funding.

If you want your content to be seen on Facebook, these types of updates can get you the most traction.

One of the two is likely if an anonymous industry executive's whistle - blower complaint gets traction.

If the critical hype around Breath of the Wild gets traction with the broader public, we could see those conservative projections blown away.

«I would love to see that suggestion get more traction before we approach the idea of kids losing steam in college in America.»

Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

Overall, it seems to me that if you have been struggling to pay the bills and salaries on a regular basis; if you can not get traction with customers; if you can not raise awareness of your product or brand, then it is time to quit.

Meanwhile, some of the programs in which Travelport is investing to help cushion the blow are getting traction, particularly its new desktop tools and the Rooms and More initiative that provides vastly more hotel content than the Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan systems of old.

Neo-cons also get a huge amount of traction from their so - called pro-life stand.

But this is a big market, and there already is some activity — it just hasn't picked up a ton of traction just yet because it is a slog to get everything all in one place.

Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump's victory.

He got a lot of traction with people and decided to start his own company.

It's difficult to make your business brand get the sort of traction and recognition you probably think it deserves.

But for the Liberals to get any traction in town, they will have to overcome a keen sense of betrayal.

«The biggest challenge was getting traction out of the gate.

I was chatting with my colleague Nancy Marmolejo about how she was getting so much traction of Facebook.

Instead of relying on the overcrowded big guy (like Facebook and Twitter), you can get more traction from digging into an aggressive newcomer for content promotion.

Tools and providers that allow people to feel more protected and insulated from prying eyes of any kind will get traction.»

Please, for the love of god, open up Frugal Wonderful anyway — it would be the best damn satire blog ever and would actually probably get so much traction it's unreal.

By the start of this decade, however, the company's business started on a steep decline as the PlayStation 3 initially failed to gain traction, the Walkman was a distant memory, and everything from digital cameras to mobile devices were getting hit hard by competitors.