Sentences with phrase «of year holidays»

More than any other season of the year the holidays are a time for hosting family and friends.

During end of year holidays, we did California by car, thus stopping in several different and interesting places.

But if there's no significant impact on sales during the Golden Week, the Summer holidays, and the end of year holiday season, then it's another story... but one that isn't meant to be told right now!

Please help us with an end of year holiday donation: www.causes.com/thecatnetwork.

Try sending an end of the year holiday card to your former clients thanking them for hiring your law firm and encouraging them to review your firm online (if it's allowed by your state bar association).

Not exact matches

The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.

Fifteen years ago, we didn't know what «Cyber Monday» was, but now it's an important piece of holiday shopping (maybe as important as Black Friday to some people).

While it's natural to take a breath, reflect, and count your blessings during the holiday season, it's still possible to also end your year with a feeling of real accomplishment, so that you'll start 2018 on a high note rather than with a horrifically backlogged to - do list.

Similar data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2016.

The festival, also known as Chinese New Year, can be described as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even New Year's Eve rolled into one holiday, which marks the beginning of spring and the coming together of families.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

On the other hand, and assuming they're destined for critical acclaim, having completely new and exclusive games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Snipperclips, Arms and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 available as part of your launch year holiday lineup could prove a much bigger deal than anyone's yet realized.

«This year, we wanted to showcase some of the hottest holiday gifts from across the U.S. in toys, fashion, and electronics through an interactive heatmap, which can help create more successful gift giving and better inform seller promotions,» says Zoher Karu, eBay's vice president of customer optimization and data.

He had thought that launching in the holiday shopping spree might be a boon for his campaign, but «the obvious hindsight observation is that one of the coldest months of the year is not the time to trying to get people excited about coolers,» said Grepper.

«And since more and more Chinese are taking their long holiday breaks outside of China, I'll be watching out for how busy our Merlion will be over this Chinese New Year period,» he said.

These are the magical moments that give the holidays meaning not only for you, but for those who most need it this time of year.

Whether it's your busiest time of the year or you're working hard to keep momentum going into the next year, navigating the holiday season can be especially tricky for any startup.

That's good news ahead of this year's winter holiday season, but there remains weakness in the category.

In recent years, holiday traffic has consolidated to two periods of time: the Thanksgiving weekend and the week heading into Christmas.

While it's best to organize your desk before leaving for a holiday, take a couple of hours in the New Year to clear off your desk before settling in.

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

In a conference call with employees on Wednesday, CEO David Brandon blamed some of the downfall on a devastating holiday season, when sales were less than half of the $ 600 million usually made in a year.

Goldenvoice's stance may be especially deflating for marijuana - friendly Coachella attendees due to the fact that the final week of this year's festival includes the date of April 20 (a Friday), which is the unofficial holiday for marijuana users worldwide.

Whether it's New Year's, Christmas lighting, Easter, Fourth of July or any other holiday, you can get paid to help decorate homes.

Starting off with my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween is one of the most mindless holiday marketing months and I am not talking about zombies; though when I read some of these Facebook pages it makes me wish I was one... What I mean is that it's relatively easy to research and find quality content that can be used to boost interest in your cause, so why not do something more ghoulish?

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Toymakers also will have less of an opportunity to promote their wares all year long, rather than just during the holiday rush.

Small Business Saturday, happening this year on November 28, started as an American Express initiative to encourage consumers to shop small and local during the holiday season, but it is now a key piece of the major holiday shopping day trifecta.

Yet before the holiday distractions take hold, donors use this time of the year to remember the sacrifices made by the men and women serving in the U.S. military, and to support causes that help them when they return home.

Prioritize customer service: According to a study of last year's holiday trends, shoppers care as much about the shopping experience as they do about the gifts they buy.

The holiday season is the best time of the year to throw some caution to the wind and embrace the motto «treat yourself (or your friends and family.)»

Last year, more than half of all online transactions during the holidays included shipping at no charge, a 10 percent jump from 2010, according to a survey of online shoppers by comScore.

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

At the very latest, your holiday cards need to be received before the end of the year.

After pulling back on its holiday season hiring in anticipation of weaker sales this year, Macy's (m) said on Friday it will hire another 7,000 temporary workers, citing a strong number of shopper visits so far this Christmas period.

This year, April 15 is a Sunday and April 16 falls on a holiday in the District of Columbia (Emancipation Day).

Some employees celebrate holidays at different times of year.

Yes, the holidays are truly the most wonderful time of the year.

Yet fewer than half of employers (47 %) plan to pay holiday bonuses this season, according to the same poll, a slight increase over last year's 45 %.

Netgear's (ntgr) stock has done fine, but trailed the S&P 500 index for most of the past five years until a big rally the past few months, largely over excitement about how well Arlo cameras sold in the holiday shopping period.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a striking holiday missive last year: If you're thinking of buying an at - home DNA testing kit, make sure to consider the privacy implications: «Although most tests require just a swab of the cheek,» the agency wrote, «that tiny sample can disclose the biological building blocks of what makes you you.»

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

Walmart, which is planning to spend $ 2 billion to strengthen its e-commerce operations in the next two years, invested heavily in improving its shopping app ahead of the current holiday season.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

Switching on the Christmas lights in London's world famous Oxford Street is usually a jubilant time for U.K. retailers, but this year the holiday season is full of uncertainty.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

Main Street is getting into the holiday spirit this year, according to a recent survey from Bank of America.

With the rush of prepping for the end of the year, taking stock of goals, and managing the to - dos and emotions of the holiday season, the end of year can be a tough time for business owners and employees.

As we approach the heaviest shopping season of the year, many of us will do our holiday shopping from the comfort of our homes, taking advantage of the Cyber Monday deals, or praying Amazon makes that last - minute delivery in time for gift giving.

«We look forward to welcoming back holiday employees who return year - after - year to Amazon and welcome new faces to the team, many of whom will continue on with regular, full - time roles with the company after the holidays,» Dave Clark, Amazon senior vice president of global customer fulfillment, said in a statement.