Sentences with phrase «of smaller efforts»

But this big initiative, like the No Child Left Behind Act, has shown that big initiatives at the federal level lead to the success of smaller efforts spurred by it.

Besides the discs that «everyone» was buying, there were a significant number of smaller efforts with gameplay as good (sometimes even better) than the so - called blockbusters.

On the overall plan, Poloncarz said he is not looking for a single silver bullet to transform the local economy, but rather a series of smaller efforts that can collectively grow the economy.

That's really the key to the new business mindset — the recognition that branding and marketing are an ongoing, steady stream of small efforts, not a series of gigantic pushes.

Weight loss is the sum of small efforts, which is repeated day - in and day - out.

Not exact matches

He wanted real - time, at - a-glance data on those visitors that would quickly alert him to any site issues, and more important, allow him to tweak his marketing efforts to generate solid leads from the relatively small number of visitors to his clients» websites.

The U.S. Small Business Administration, widely considered near useless to high - tech startups, has made two efforts in as many weeks to woo this innovative group of entrepreneurs.

Couple these experiences with increased depth and variety of offerings and faster delivery for items that aren't in the store which may require efforts of many smaller entities thereby imparting the benefits of cooperative association.

At the end of the day, most of the rhetoric and some of the efforts around small business owners seem more about administrative game - playing instead of providing help and assistance to small business owners to make their lives easier and their businesses more successful.

As President Trump speaks at Davos about America being the best place to do business, Revolution LLC CEO Steve Case discusses the «Rise of the Rest» effort to encourage investment in startups and small businesses in the U.S.

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.

But such efforts require massive amounts of preparation and can only be done in small areas, Eakin said.

«When you break it into smaller pieces, it's easier for people to see the impact of their effort,» he says.

When small businesses invest a lot of effort servicing unprofitable customers or selling unprofitable products, holiday promotions can have disastrous financial outcomes.

Their lobbying effort will begin once MPs start debating the government's budget implementation bill, which in its current form would apply the taxes to all but a small group of cannabis - based drugs.

It's a good idea to appoint someone (possibly yourself if you're a small business owner) to coordinate the efforts to create a business continuity plan, but a successful plan requires feedback and input from all parts of an organization.

An advocate for both small - business owners and workers, Perry oversees efforts that have included offering more than $ 600 million in financing and technical assistance programs to promote business growth and job creation in economically depressed areas of L.A.

Congress, too, talks a good small - business game, but the legislative history is replete with efforts to enlarge the definition of small — currently 37 separate standards apply to nearly 1,200 different industries — to include ever more constituents.

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp said he is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

Known as a micro: bit, the small device is innovative — and so is the effort to put one in the hands of every 7th grader.

While corporate employees can afford to bury themselves in very specific, rigidly segmented responsibilities, small business employees succeed or fail based on the collective efforts of the entire group.

Small businesses are the powerhouse of the economy, the mitochondrial DNA of our economic body, converting effort into the energy that fuels the country.

While this kind of writing and speaking doesn't result in anything you'd actually use in a business discussion, the mental effort of oversimplifying accustoms your brain to reach for the small words rather than the overly complex ones.

Small surprises at the right stages of the customer lifecycle can make a big difference in your retention efforts.

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

So the smaller store effort represents a happy medium, one that with the help of tech will get Kohl's more bang for its buck and lift profits.

Managing time will always be one of the biggest challenges of being a small business owner, but with a concerted, strategic effort, you can take charge of your schedule and allow your passion and actions to drive business success.

Pershing Square said it was getting out of the investment because it now represented a small percentage of the fund assets, while sucking up a disproportionate amount of the fund's time and effort.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S. small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image of the social media network's ads have taken a hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.

Any effort by these cloud companies to build their own chip tech, even if they use for just a small part of their overall data centers and cloud businesses, could cause Intel to lose out on sales.

The effort will rally «the Chamber's broad network of business and professional associations, state and local chambers, small business members, and local advocates.»

More than half of all small - business owners fail to measure the results of their marketing efforts.

It was also long before a small business owner in California named Kristen Christian, frustrated by Bank of America's now - abandoned decision to charge customers a fee to use their debit cards, launched a grass roots effort to convince people to move their money out of large banks and dubbed November 5 Bank Transfer Day.

But that message about resilience and repetition also underlay many of Sandberg's other remarks at the conference, even those more focused on business advice and Facebook's efforts to get more small - business users.

Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

Las Vegas is now one of four U.S. cities that has its own domain name, as part of an effort to boost local small business growth.

That's why, instead of solely focusing on the end result, it's important to set different types of goals — including smaller, more immediate ones, intermediate targets, and stretch goals — that all build on your efforts to reach that final destination.

The company has made smaller tweaks over the last year to combat clickbait, but Facebook's VP of product management Adam Mosseri tells Business Insider that this is the most dramatic change that it has launched since its initial efforts in 2014.

In an effort to grow revenue and profits amid margin - crimping cost increases, American and its rivals are segmenting their cabins into smaller classes of service, including no - frills basic economy and premium economy, which offers a larger seat, more leg room and an amenities kit for a higher fare.

Smaller marketing budgets prevent SMBs from effectively competing against larger retailers on these major selling days, as they'll be outspent and overlooked in light of the marketing efforts of big - box stores.

(That's short for the Milford Alliance to Defeat Sprawl at Exit Ten, an effort by residents in the small community of Milford, Pa., to stop a Home Depot from going up.)

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

Usually this initial group of users is small, for the simple reason that if there were something that large numbers of people urgently needed and that could be built with the amount of effort a startup usually puts into a version one, it would probably already exist.

One of the most popular efforts of the cluster has been the creation of a website which, in addition to listing cluster events, serves as a matchmaking service for small businesses seeking government contracts.

Consider the unhappy experience of one East Coast software manufacturer whose chief executive retained a small and less - than - prominent investment - banking firm in his efforts to woo private - equity investors.

In the past, his team has relied on organic measures like referrals (the company amassed 200,000 - plus Facebook fans mostly by word of mouth), but it has tried more targeted efforts recently, including a small campaign using Yahoo's native ads platform.

Small businesses have also played an enormous part in the recovery effort, including bars and restaurants, of which there are 600 additional establishments.

In an effort to break my smartphone addiction, I've joined a small group of people turning their phone screens to grayscale — cutting out the colors and going with a range of shades from white to black.

In any country, they argue, only a small portion of the income earned in any year is a result of individual work effort, ingenuity and risk - taking.

SQ, +1.27 % Chief Executive Jack Dorsey posted a short film detailing the small - business efforts of Syrian refugees.