Sentences with phrase «people take me up on»

I have done this myself several times, and so far, have never had one person take me up on the offer.

I had 97 people take me up on the offer and to date have over 50 reviews of my book listed on Amazon!

So far, I've only had one person take me up on it (out of thousands of losers.)

And at Austin Animal Center, they invited the public to come out and spend Christmas Day with their pets — and more than 200 people took them up on the invitation.

Many people took him up on it though, so I'd call it a neat souvenir from the day.

These three codes are due to run out on Sunday so be quick, I can see quite a few people taking up on # 8 off Dragon Quest Heroes.

Fifty people took him up on the offer, showing that the chance to air a matter with a perfect stranger might be worth more than general advice about free advice would have it.

Most people take us up on our free consultation offer and we sit and discuss all the options available in terms of what insurance companies will cover and how much compensation one can expect.

Many people took me up on my offer to critique their resumes for free — here's the thread: Free Resume Critique

I'm a tech writer, as well, and just posted to our church forums that I am available to help with resumes (what with the job market the way it is, I've already had more than one person take me up on my offer).

Not exact matches

Altman, by contrast, has advocated for the government to take on responsibility for affordable housing, «instead of letting rich people drive it up to increase their own wealth.»

Also, take a page from my upcoming book on my convict period: When leading teams and people, recognize that it's critical that you understand how you show up.

Always agreeing to take on tasks, meet up with people and increase your responsibilites can hinder your business and hold it back.

I went from a person totally okay with curling up in my leggings and sweatshirt into a tiny ball entertained by pre-loaded podcasts for an entire flight to a traveler constantly comparing the lack of amenities, professionalism, and comfort of any seat on any airline to the two roundtrip business class flights I took on Emirates.

This frees me up to think and focus on the tasks that I know will take up most of my time, like building a team of amazing people who are smart, thoughtful and motivated to achieve something.

«People came and stood up for Barcelona, stood up for the victims, stood up for us,» Marfeel's Chiavegato says, adding that the executive team took several employees to lunch on Friday to talk them through the trauma.

Whether it's the barista frothing my cappuccino as I impatiently embark on my next transcontinental flight or the construction workers blocking the street while cars pile up and they, doughnuts in hand, mosey along attempting to clear the blockage du jour, people seem to be flat - out taking their blasted time.

The discovery of the network leads to some intriguing theories about why people often fail to come up with creative solutions when they're focusing on a problem but succeed later, when they're doing other things, like taking a shower or watching a movie.

When it's released next month, Apple's HomePod will only work on the iCloud account owned by the person that set it up out of the box, Refinery29 reported on Wednesday after having the opportunity to briefly take the smart speaker for a spin.

That only took 15 minutes, so I switch over to my party preparations: the alcohol lineup based on crowd - sourced recommendations alcohol was delivered on Sunday, the BarStaff bartender and waitresses were confirmed a few weeks ago, and I'll wait until Wednesday afternoon to put in the order for the set up / clean up people on Last Minute Help.

Access to the complete Twitter stream costs about $ 30,000 a month, with fees based on usage that can take the charges up to $ 1.5 million a year, according to people who have used the data.

Kalanick's appointments, former Xerox Chief Executive Officer Ursula Burns and former Merrill Lynch Chief Executive Officer John Thain, take up two previously unfilled seats on Uber's now 11 - person board of directors.

When your employees truly own their tasks and projects, you can take those items off your plate: Instead of feeling that you need to check up on people, they'll come to you when they have problems or need guidance.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dubbed the «Last Great Race on Earth,» kicks off in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 5 when thousands of people will line the streets to watch teams of 12 to 16 dogs embark on the 10 - to 17 - day adventure that will take them up to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.

What's the point of having a website slider if only 1 % of people click on the item that is taking up your most valuable homepage real estate, especially when 84 % of those clicks are on the first item anyway?

Preparing for what Gordon envisions would require the kind of disaster planning that took place prior to Y2K, when the Red Cross advised people to stock up on candles and medical supplies.

Most of the entrepreneurs I talk with are wrapped up in the challenges of building something new, taking on the world, hiring people, and making payroll.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

Instead of having managers and subordinates, Zappos will be made up of 400 «circles,» or teams of people who work together and take on various roles within those circles.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

You break up a job and let four people take on an extra 5 or 10 hours a week to get the job done.

«Whether you're a Dyson or a Toyota it takes 18 months to tool for headlights,» says one person who has worked with Dyson on its project, while selecting suppliers can also take up to two years.

I've heard no more than yes and I've seen people take negative feedback and give up on an idea.

«There's pre-op, post-op recovery, during that time sometimes the patient is on a follow - up medication... what we're looking to do is take that experience, that itinerary that person follows and digitize it,» he said.

In his time, Whyte set up cameras and filmed people congregating in public, taking notes along the way on how they behaved, where they migrated to, how long their conversations lasted, and so on.

Startups prize people who step up and take on new challenges during periods of growth or change.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

Lee said the cold weather has led some people to give up their tickets to the opening ceremony, which will take place at the open - air Olympic stadium on Friday.

On the other hand, «If people want me to shut up and take my money, I'm fine with that as well.»

The iPad Pro's keyboard isn't as good as the one on a normal laptop, and it's now up to developers to build compelling apps that take advantage of all the new iOS 11 features and give people a better reason to ditch their laptop for an iPad.

Few things will cause more customer dissatisfaction and ruin your reputation faster than being difficult, adversarial, and uncooperative when people believe what you said in your guarantee and take you up on it.

Dozens of people dressed up as Pikachu, the famous character of Nintendo's videogame software Pokemon, dance with fans as the final of a nine - day «Pikachu Outbreak» event takes place to attract summer vacationers in Yokohama, in suburban Tokyo, on August 16, 2015.

This moves people up and frees you to take on new things too.

That could lead to future data scandals that may make people take Zuckerberg up on his assertion that if Facebook can't keep people's data safe, they shouldn't use it.

Before long Biznik took on a life of it's own as folks joined from all over the country an even the world, responding to the call for independent business people to show up, collaborate, and work together to help each other stay in business.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

Hopefully more people will read up on something like bitcoin then take action to their best interest.

But just as worrisome, if not more, is that when there's no clear guidance on how much time off is okay, people could actually end up taking less.

Sometimes you get the most profound insights when you are traveling, especially if you take the time to chat up the person sitting next to you on your flight.

Where some people focus on the debt snowball or debt avalanche methods, others might transfer high - interest balances to a 0 % credit card, sell possessions to raise cash they can use to pay down debt, take on a part - time job to speed up the process — or some combination of all these methods.