Sentences with phrase «own drum»

play music for a few hours — guitar and drums.

By the time he completed his undergraduate studies in Massachusetts, he was a competitive karate master and played drums in a pop band.

With a focus on small businesses, Local Web Leads (No. 335) aims to drum up more sales for clients using search, social, and display ads.

The Roots» drummer Questlove is marching to a different, erm, drum — or make that drumstick.

Western Australian - based Golden Saint Resources is venturing to London to drum up capital to develop its diamonds assets in West Africa.

Set competitions and advertise offers on your Instagram account to gain followers and to drum up interest around your brand.

But since his election he has sought to drum up support in Europe for what he calls a «protection agenda».

Migicovsky, who relocated to Palo Alto, Calif., after graduating from the University of Waterloo, tried and failed to drum up funding from venture capitalists.

Of course, it's hard to resist giving in to a more cynical suspicion that reports like these are a vague attempt to drum up a bit of fear within the VC industry, which, in turn, will provide lucrative contracts for the branding agencies that will swoop in to «refresh» a VC's look.

Beat your own drum and inspire the world!

The Chicago - based business, which ranks No. 18 on Inc.'s list of the fastest - growing private companies in America, offers deals on items such as chrome - over-bass snare drums and troubadour tube amps.

Whether this is an extremely busy time for your business, or not, there are many efforts you can make to drum up some sales before -LSB-...]

Most likely the group will be a 4 piece, 2 guitars, bass and drums.

EN Primeur is a yearly campaign launched each spring by the producers and «negociants» of Bordeaux to drum up interest and sell the wine from the previous vintage as futures, two years bef

Whether this is an extremely busy time for your business, or not, there are many efforts you can make to drum up some sales before the end of the year.

For example, failing to get your brakes fixed when you only need to replace the pads, could result in the need to replace the drums as well, due to delaying the job for several months.

Related: 9 Ways to Build Your Pinterest Audience Even if your business isn't trying to drum up retail sales, you should take notice of the social media platform.

But fear not — Kolanovic will continue beating the drum as long as there's an issue.

European aerospace giant Airbus is debuting its on - demand helicopter booking platform, Voom, in Mexico City on Thursday in an effort to drum up demand for choppers among well - heeled urban commuters sick of spending hours in traffic.

Airbus is debuting its helicopter - booking platform in Mexico City in an effort to drum up sagging demand for choppers.

With the new facility now up and running, MacDonald argues that his company has been much more successful with its highly focused direct sales strategy than the firm would have been had it recruited intermediaries or agents to drum up customers.

One way to clear my head is to practice an instrument like guitar, piano or — ideally — drums.

But before you spend a fortune trying to drum up new business, why not get in touch with those people who once loved you — your former customers?

For some reason, the tech press and now the WSJ continue to beat this drum like it's some sort of big deal.

This time they let the show begin: there was the guy in the orangutan suit — playing a character from Thinkin» Things — beating a drum for Edmark.

Kuroda has been beating that drum for years and his comments in confirmation hearings in the past two weeks suggest he plans to pump cash into the economy much more aggressively than outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who was reluctant to be too bold for fear of sowing the seeds of future problems, such as an economic bubble.

Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.

Travis Boatman, EA's senior vice-president for worldwide studios, was primarily at the event to drum up publicity for the company's new lineup of traditional console games.

Most notably, Sarah Paulson, who won an award for her role in the miniseries The People vs. O.J. Simpson, used her acceptance speech to drum up more support, asking everyone who is able to donate to the ACLU «to protect the rights and liberties of people across this country.»

John Payne, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, said the financial decisions being revealed in the CNBC Millionaire Survey reflect a basic behavioral finance lesson he has been drumming into the heads of business students for years.

But instead of a big hit to drum up some hype in the city that never sleeps, Cirque's got Shpeel on its plate, and it isn't the sort of entrance the 26 - year - old company was hoping for.

Although Unifor again claims it has surpassed the 40 % threshold needed to call a vote, organizers are still trying to drum up enough support to comfortably meet the majority of the 7,000 workers required for victory.

«That was the first moment when I realized, OK, it's true,» Ulman says months later, his fingers nervously drumming a couch cushion in Livestrong's Austin headquarters.

All you need is enough skills to drum up the first version of your mobile app.

The pre-eminent American science journalist, Gleick herein explores the history and effects of knowledge communication between humans, drawing a link from African talking drums and the earliest alphabets through the telegraph — once «a nervous system for the Earth» — to Wikipedia and Twitter, and the current state of information overload from which so many claim to suffer.

Yet he still finds time to bang the drums in Run the Red Light, the rock band he founded with his brother Toby in the late»90s.

Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

For example, Springsteen spent three weeks trying to get drum sounds: experimenting, testing, rinsing, and repeating... three weeks of hitting drums, over and over again, trying to find what Springsteen felt was the perfect sound.

If your sales have slowed, don't offer a discount to drum up buyers.

«But Americans have had such dramatic losses that the whole idea of owning has been drummed out of people's minds,» he says.

A slew of online platforms has made it simpler to drum up employment, from one - off gigs to full - time jobs.

«I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios — I don't understand it,» the Facebook CEO said.

And on Valentine's Day 2015, as his wife was playing the piano at home, he watched their cat, Yoda, discover a new toy: a rug under the couple's drum set.

Consider hosting a few events to gauge and drum up interest.

Even «Seinfeld» was panned by focus groups when it was first tested, and «Breaking Bad» struggled to drum up viewership in its first seasons.

I'll find myself sitting cross-legged next to a taciturn Swedish engineer, a heavily tattooed biker, or another migrant - there's a computer programmer from Chennai - as our children play with the wooden blocks, rattles and drums.»

Offering your own freebies either in person or online can be an excellent and budget - friendly way of drumming up business and building the customer loyalty you need to get repeat orders and keep business booming.

Then I hustled, cold calling everyone I could think of and drumming up business.

The mood is best captured by Pitbull, who swaggers on stage later in the day in a tight black shirt and dark sunglasses, a spectacle that brings the housing - mad crowd to their feet as a pounding drum beat kicks in.

The chocolate ellipsoids are then put in a big rotating drum.