Sentences with phrase «of small incentive»

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A drawback of being a small business owner is that the budget for such quality, such as employee incentives and benefits, is not as plentiful as it is for a larger company (especially in the economic climate we are living in today).

The incentive program — consisting of a 90 percent government guarantee on the SBA's flagship 7 (a) loans for start - ups and small businesses, as well as a trim or total cut of the fees on 7 (a) and 504 loans — was set to expire February 28.

In order to maximize the potential of email marketing leading up to Cyber Monday or Black Friday, small business marketers should update their email signup forms and provide extra incentive for users to submit their email address.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

Rewards and incentives are also a great way to increase productivity in the workplace — if they know they have a chance of being rewarded with, for example, a small bonus for their hard work, they will be much more driven as they will have something to work towards.

Atlas Snow - Shoe is one of a growing number of small companies that are broadening the concept of individualized incentive pay to include every member of the workforce.

You might also institute a frequent - customer program, in which you offer a discount or other incentive in exchange for a small amount of personal information and an opportunity to contact the customer later.

Yet I don't see much in the way of incentives for businesses, particularly smaller firms, to insure their workers, apart from the obligatory promise to lower costs through technology, deregulation, and tort reform.

The smallest companies still make the most use of incentive - only (commission) plans to pay their sales force.

But often this leads to one single salesperson or a small cluster of salespeople monopolizing these incentives, leaving a considerable portion of the team under - motivated and dissatisfied.

These recommendations were in fact cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate and invest.

Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.

The city provides incentives to small business that relocate or expand to Boca Raton, in partnership with a variety of county and state business organizations.

A recent study, however, from Blackhawk Engagement Solutions, an international incentives and engagement company, may offer a ray of hope to small retailers.

Federal government could stimulate venture markets by introducing a capital - raising incentive such as a deferred capital gains tax for reinvestment of proceeds into small - business shares, effectively channeling locked - up capital earning uncompetitive returns into the shares of small enterprise.

Small businesses that need to keep a closer eye on return on time investment could set some parameters on how the time is used, or alternatively set up some kind of ranking of pain points that need solving within the business, with an incentive system for coming up with solutions.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has already or will drastically impact employers with 50 or more full - time employees; however, the IRS announced it will be expanding incentives — in the form of a tax credit — to small employers who offer insurance through the exchange to its employees.

Although the Conservatives later replaced the Canadian Building Incentive Program with a similar program, the new one is more limited in scope with a smaller budget — typical of the cuts Harper made to many climate related initiatives that had been proposed and voted through in Parliament under the previous Liberal government.

This grade was awarded as a result of the budget's focus on incentives to promote small and medium - sized businesses, improve gender diversity in business, and bolster national infrastructure.

Thus, the long - term target incentives for the NEOs who head these significant business segments are determined based on a blend of peer positions with similar titles at peer group companies and CEO positions among smaller companies, using the 75th percentile for peer - company positions and the median for CEO positions at smaller companies as competitive reference points.

Among HP's peer group companies, HP executives have a higher percentage of performance - based pay, which generally means smaller bonuses and lower overall compensation in years of low performance and higher bonuses and long - term incentive payouts in years of exceptional performance, reflective of the performance achieved.

Director compensation typically consists of a cash component (retainer), smaller cash amounts paid for attendance at board and committee meetings, and incentive compensation in the form of stock and stock option grants which vest over a period of a few years.

Still, they don't have much of an incentive to do so, and can avoid open bidding on smaller, urgent contracts if they can show that it would severely hinder their work.

Though only a small percentage of taxpayers have such high incomes, research suggests that high - income tax payers are more responsive to tax reforms that affect charitable giving because they have more income, more tax advisers, and more incentive to devote time to figuring out the after - tax price of giving.

We know that regulators in Massachusetts and Las Vegas were taking the allegations of sexual misconduct seriously, and even a small chance of losing a gaming license in either location may have been enough incentive for Steve Wynn to leave.

While Canadians are supportive of tax incentives for new small business ventures, many take a more critical view of other areas of tax fairness.

If cash flow has been flowing less than you'd prefer, here are a few of Durand's suggestions for amping it up: Establish regular invoicing procedures (and to boost cash flow, consider switching from a monthly invoicing cycle to a biweekly invoicing practice); offer incentives to customers for paying invoices early, such as small percentages off; and finally, don't let past - due invoices fester.

Minister, the ongoing controversy over small - business tax rules underscores a point that our association, and many independent tax experts, have been making for years: it is time to review Canada's tax system with the goal of strengthening the incentives for investment and growth.

That may say more about the social norms and sizes (most are pretty small) of those countries than the incentive effects of lower tax rates.

If there were more certainty as to what has the final authority to command our lives, would there not be a far smaller gap between knowledge of the right and the incentive to do it?

Most of the freer Asian countries at one time or another adopted policies penalizing large families or offering incentives to small families, whether through the tax code or through benefits like preferential housing and jobs.

Each beverage company may undertake additional activities including: introducing and expanding new lower - calorie products and smaller - portion packages; product placement such as end aisle and checkout displays featuring only reduced - calorie beverages; merchandising efforts such as repositioning reduced - calorie beverages on shelves; providing coupons and other incentives promoting no / lower - calorie options; and taste tests / sampling programs in and out of store.

The beverage companies will utilize a range of marketplace activities in these Little Rock neighborhoods in an effort to help people reduce their calories: such as making lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages more available in stores, providing incentives for consumers to try these options and displaying new calorie awareness messages at points of sale.

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With their clientele limited to a small band of hardcore sports bettors, the independent sportsbooks had little incentive to expand betting offerings.

Protecting a nine - game unbeaten run that stretches back to their Community Shield triumph over Manchester City is one massive incentive for the players who do turn out on Tuesday, while there's also the small matter of surging to the top of Group C. Only a two - goal margin will suffice if United wish to take command of an incredibly weak group, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defending.

A small candy bar as an incentive today may need to be replaced with a handful of his favorite cereal tomorrow.

After a predetermined number of points, reward your child with a small incentive.

It's a comprehensive effort to improve the understanding of the biomechanics of head injuries in professional football and to create incentives for helmet manufacturers, small businesses, entrepreneurs, universities and others to develop and commercialize new and improved protective equipment, including helmets.

The devil is undoubtedly in the detail as Wesselius is critical of the view, often voiced in Brussels, that because the sector is small no player has an incentive to use underhand tactics.

It is true that the UK government could change its funding formulas in the future to ensure Scotland gets a smaller dividend, but I suspect the threat of independence is quite a powerful incentive against that happening.

Skelos instead has sought to focus attention to a $ 200 package of tax cuts and tax incentives for small businesses in order to stimulate the economy.

These incentives and policy instruments could be financial, but they could also be lighter - touch regulatory and market mechanisms that help SMEs (unlike mechanisms such as auctions that are barriers to small players who do not have corporate back - up and who need to know the value of their product in advance if they are to raise funds).

Democrats said the changes in Smith's bill would likely lead to a large number of women losing access to comprehensive health insurance coverage because small business owners would have an incentive to offer plans that don't cover abortion.

These tax benefits include a number of provisions that help give small businesses the ability to grow and expand now by providing incentives to invest in small businesses, helping businesses make new investments in equipment, and extending benefits that help out new start - ups.

Senator Gillibrand and Assemblywoman Meng urged the U.S. Senate to vote on theSUCCESS Act of 2012, legislation that would provide investors with strong incentives to invest in small business stock, double deductions for start - up expenses, purchase new equipment, and continue tax credits that small businesses can take advantage of.

Dietz is running on a pro-growth platform, favors incentives for the return of small businesses to the Rosendale hamlet and lists replacement of the town pool and infrastructure improvements among his top priorities.

That incentive is now there because the cost of lobbying is small in monetary terms relative to benefits, as you only need to influence a small amount of decision makers each of which is relatively «cheap» to influence.

He argued this would encourage reform of the party funding system by creating a greater incentive for a broader base for party funding, rather than the current reliance on a smaller number of bigger donors.

Lawmakers plan on leaving for the summer on June 21st, but they continue to be gridlocked on the issues of raising the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 8.50 an hour, and offering tax breaks to small businesses as an incentive to create more jobs.