Sentences with phrase «of small focus»

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

The Pure Barre technique is a unique way to strengthen and tone your muscles in a safe, low impact manner through the use of small focused movements.

The Pure Barre technique is a unique way to strengthen and tone your muscles in a safe, low impact manner through the use of small focused movements.

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The goal is to make more small businesses aware of SBA services, an issue that Mills has said ought to be her successor's primary focus.

Attracting small donors through digital channels resembles the presidential campaign fundraising strategy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (D), but Harris insists she's just focusing on this year's midterm elections.

Small businesses should skip the thought leadership pieces in favor of playing up their local roots and focusing on product, personality and people.

If we were to focus solely on Google's most recent acquisitions, we would find a host of smaller companies that were purchased for their innovative products.

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

To make the most of big data, small businesses must be laser - focused on their intentions and goals, being selective about what they consider, and disregarding the rest.

Canada has become an unlikely hub for the development of e-commerce platforms, with market leader Shopify, big - brand focused Elastic Path and small storefront ShopLocket all coming out of this country's tech sector.

This decentralized approach would also ensure an understanding of the differences in Alberta's markets, which focus on smaller companies and individual, rather than institutional, investors.

Instead, focus on small pleasures, like scheduling dinner with a friend at the end of a taxing workday, arranging for a massage at the end of the week or at the conclusion of a long business trip, or even relaxing with a mindless television program if your brain has simply been firing for too long.

Many times the owners of small businesses forget to pay intention on PR as their main focus is always on Advertising.

Small business and entrepreneurship are at the center of creating jobs and growing the economy, which are key pieces of Trump's stated focus.

Rather than letting your to - do list or set of goals overwhelm you, break down what you're trying to achieve into the smallest, most attainable steps and focus on being realistic about what you can get...

Medium's new focus holds the potential for growth, but it also puts the company directly in the path of Facebook, since the giant social network is also busy trying to convince publishers large and small to see it as a home for their content — a distribution platform that can help get their journalism in front of more than a billion people.

Already, sites like the Washington Post and Mic are publishing 100 % of their content through Facebook's mobile - focused Instant Articles project, and the social network recently opened the feature to anyone, large or small.

Freed from the demands of public market investors who tend to focus on short - term returns, some companies may find renewed life that harks back to when they were small and privately held, business experts say.

Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

And while there is scant evidence to suggest the Waterloo, Ont., firm is set to revisit its glory days (its valuation was $ 83.4 billion in 2008; it's $ 4.3 billion now), in 2016 it took the bold step of redefining its identity as a smaller, more focused and, arguably, more sustainable business.

Hitch said that when the company asked customers to describe the robot, «nobody realized it was two meters tall» because they focused on the smaller robot body (resembling the Star Wars cylindrical robot R2 - D2) and not its tower, which comprises the bulk of the robot's height of around 6.5 feet.

The third annual Small Business Lending and Investment Summit convenes in Washington this week and will focus on the importance of SBA - backed lending.

The WSJ piece, like similar stories on executive comp, focuses on pay data for a small and elite group of chiefs.

«When we said we were going to focus on smaller, sustainable seafood producers, it was mostly a roll of the eyes response,» O'Shea says.

While return on investment might be the end - goal of social media presence, focusing on ROI in monetary terms isn't a good strategy, particularly in the short - term, even for smaller brands.

Small Business Saturday began in 2010 shifting the focus of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday to give small businesses a boost during the busiest time of the Small Business Saturday began in 2010 shifting the focus of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday to give small businesses a boost during the busiest time of the small businesses a boost during the busiest time of the year.

Blake, founder of The Nonverbal Group, helped me shift my focus from writing a great book — an overwhelming thought — to making small daily progress.

Instead, I have focused my energy on trusting my own plan, one that includes input from a small handful of people, and executing this plan consistently.

While accelerator programs have long offered this perk to startups, usually in exchange for equity, entrepreneurs are finding other types of free space available, says Steve King, partner at Emergent Research, a consulting firm focused on small business in Lafayette, Calif..

And this is precisely why the «comfort zone» kills careers and businesses - a tiny lack of focus and your small company is plunged into the red.

Many new marketers make the mistake of speaking to as broad of an audience as possible, but if you narrow your focus with more appropriate word choices (such as a larger or smaller vocabulary) and an appropriate tone (more formal or more casual), you'll amplify the effectiveness of your website.

The potential volume of sales represented by all those corporate desktops, in all those thousands of companies big and small, became the target of Bill Gates's strategic brilliance and focus.

When you are small, you have to stay focused on a smaller subset of the market that isn't as important to the billion - dollar companies.

There are and will continue to be death kick strategies and tell - tale signs of life; smaller more narrowly focused funds, deal - by - deal funds, and a focus on trendy categories like life sciences and alternative energy.

The new normal requires significant revenue traction on this level of investment, and if that is achieved the two comma capital investments (meaning millions of dollars) will flow from sources that are typically angels and smaller, more focused venture funds that are still scratching out a living.

While investors have been focused on large - cap tech and the surge in commodities, small - cap stocks have quietly come within a stone's throw of the recent all - time highs.

A full 90 % of McElhanney's clients are repeat customers — proving that focusing on the small can help a business make it big.

The founder and managing partner of the FullCycle Energy fund doesn't just focus on small problems: he harnesses new technology to solve global crises.

Industry experts and retailers credit music fans for the focus on vinyl, saying a small backlash against digital downloads has led some customers toward searching out higher sound quality, as well as the more authentic experience of physically putting on a record.

Founded the same year as Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive's focus on media and internet investments has grown out of keeping a small amount of partners making ultra-focused investments.

But when you focus on small acts of kindness, on love, on opportunity and hope, you will have more opportunities and joy will be yours for the taking.

But Ro Kanna, a Congressman representing parts of Silicon Valley, has expressed concerns about the deal and believes antitrust regulation should be «reoriented» to focus on jobs, wages, innovation and small businesses, according to The Atlantic:

A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

Early on, Preston spent much of his time righting the ship of disaster aid, but now he's focusing more on the small business in the SBA.

Being in a small town, they don't have the luxury of focusing only locally — they have to think globally by necessity.

The Pittsburgh - based specialty pharmacy grew its revenue by 13,380 percent in three years to $ 42 million by focusing on the small populations of underserved patients who need orphan drugs to treat serious illnesses.

Of the entrepreneurs surveyed, 87.20 percent felt that the presidential candidates had not focused enough on small business in their campaigns.

This naturally pushes early stage investing to smaller investment sources; angels and government sources like SBIR's, economic development funds, and state focused specific funds for a start - up's first round of investment.

Here's what Curry and the Globe shared from the conclusion of the final report on the focus groups: «When asked, there was strong support for the government offering subsidies to support innovation, rather than providing tax cuts or investments, particularly for smaller organizations,» states the final report summarizing the research.

«The Buddhists have a saying that «little by little, one walks far,» so my resolution for 2014 is to give up magic bullet thinking and focus on lots of small steps of progress,» May said.