Sentences with phrase «of the hardest sells of»

This is «one of the hardest sells of the year.»

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You can even opt for eBay if you're feeling like you can auction off something that might otherwise have a hard time selling on one of the other sites.

You can convince stakeholders about coal's employment and economic benefits, but it is bit of a hard sell to claim coal is good for the environment.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

Whether via phishing (tricking someone into providing their financial account information — often via an attachment in an email or a fake website that purports to sell or give away tickets), an ATM skimmer (which reads and records the card's information, including password) or point - of - sale malware (like that used in the 2013 Target breach), it's not hard for cybercriminals to trick the unsuspecting.

«The hardest thing is: How does that fit into a cohesive, larger vision, that's going to allow you to sell eight billion dollars, 10 billion dollars of product a year?

Nakanishi, an engineer who joined Hitachi in 1970 and worked his way up the ladder, proceeded to sell the company's hard disk drive business and consumer - related operations, opting to concentrate on sales of big - ticket power plants, rail lines and water treatment facilities.

Third, younger employees are a hard sell in a lot of ways.

CEO Tim Cook, Steve Jobs» down - to - earth successor, couldn't help himself on the earnings call, describing the quarter as «historic» and his company's performance — selling an average of 34,000 iPhones an hour, 24/7 — as «hard to comprehend.»

Interestingly, T - Mobile versions are much harder to come by, and all of the T - Mobile iPhone 8 Plus models are sold out of their initial stock.

Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

Considering that not one Democrat voted in favor of rolling back the Obama - era privacy rules, though, that could be a hard sell.

If they continue on that path, they will discredit China's remarkable achievements accomplished over decades of hard and smart work to save, produce and sell to willing buyers around the world.

This new breed of retail space replaces the hard - sell shopping environment — stacks of products, rows of cash registers, sales signs — with a softer approach that turns the store into a walk - in advertisement.

«This is another effort from the operators to sell online services access to their customer base,» said Joe McNamee, the executive director of digital rights group EDRi, which campaigned hard for strong net neutrality laws.

The hardest part of selling your product or service is getting in front of the people who will actually make the decision to buy it.

Sure, it seems hard to be enthusiastic selling insurance, but finding mentors who have made it their life, embraced it and accumulated a stack of chips from doing it, might change an employee's perspective.

The hard - to - find retro console has sold 2 million units so far, according to the company, with the bulk of the holiday season still in front of it.

Twenty - first - century selling isn't all a hard slog, of course; just think of the guys peddling iPads.

Ideally, you want to have a business idea that's easy to sell but that will be really hard to copy because putting the concept into action requires all sorts of difficult - to replicate operations and logistics.

«Each one of these events is unique, so it's hard to anticipate how much you'll be able to sell,» says David Reibstein, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the co-founder of BizRate.com.

Third, crude prices will keep pressure on stocks as SWF selling hits hard in the first or second quarter of 2016.

But it will be hard to disappoint Dollarama loyalists like this Facebook user, a connoisseur of who earned her credentials by visiting «EVERY» dollar store in Saskatoon: «The other Dollar stores sell crap... DollarRama wins hands down, all the way!!!»

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounts.

Even with Project Scorpio's ostensible performance perks, it's hard to imagine Microsoft's Xbox One selling so well, month over month, that it manages to outpace Sony by sufficiently consistent margins to reverse the broad trajectories of this console generation.

The maker of Skin So Soft had a complicated commission structure that made it harder to earn as much at a given sales level compared to other direct - selling company.

For many people, it isn't a hard sell to get them to try samples of food during a trip to the grocery store.

When John Sample switched to a team - selling approach, he soon faced a bevy of hard questions, including, How do you measure different people's worth?

«Because I've made them laugh, and because they also think I've done them a favour by letting them off the hard sell, they usually give me a couple of names,» he says.

Selling the company means giving up the independence of a company leader when it comes to hard business decisions and balancing work with family life.

Windows Phone 7 and Android are great examples — while both smartphone operating systems allow a large number of vendors to sell their own versions, the problem is that such products are hard to differentiate from each other.

And whether you own 100 percent of your business or your unhappy spouse is also your business partner, you may find yourself having to sell assets or take on debt to break up the company you worked so hard to build.

PepsiCo has worked hard to improve its relationships with the giant chains that sell most of its products.

Or the local newsagent, surely selling newspapers and magazines couldn't be hard and they must make truckloads of money right?

Sidoti added if you want to avoid the hard work of peeling, they are often sold pre-peeled and frozen and tend to cook up well.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

Without «The Apprentice» and the carefully curated image of Trump it insinuated into millions of American homes, it's hard to imagine how Trump could have ever sold the American people on his ultimate pitch: becoming president.

Despite the two - day trek it must take to China, Canadian lobster sells for about a third of the price of Australian lobster, which is getting harder to come by due to over fishing.

I have always disliked the hard push by salespeople, so I had to think of a way to sell my products without annoying potential clients.

The puck of soap itself normally sells for around $ 20, or you could get it with a hard plastic bowl for another $ 10.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this brief relief rally driven by the fact that China is offline for the week and that the persistent source of overnight selling on Chinese «hard / crash landing» concerns has been gone simply due to an extended national holiday.

Electronics were one of the earliest consumer product categories to sell strongly online, resulting in price transparency that made it hard for physical retailers to compete.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

Reliable data on wealth management products sold by other types of firms, like State Gold Treasure, is hard to come by.

«You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three,» Mr. Bezos wrote in his 1997 letter to shareholders, when the company sold only books, and which still serves as a manifesto.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

What I'd already learned, but had a hard time holding onto, is that you can't delegate these big decisions to someone else's checklist of «10 Ways to Know It's Time to Sell Your Startup».

It wasn't as hard of a sell as I had thought and I did like the fact that it was via video conference, so I could see they person on the other end.

Because of this, though, it can be hard to sell shares that you have because there aren't as many traders interested in the stock as there are with other, more valuable stocks.

Yu, the buyer from Guangzhou, worries that the thousands of apartments still to be built at Forest City will be hard to sell without Chinese buyers.