Sentences with word «points»

The FTSE 100 ended the first day of May up 0.2 percent to 7,520.36 points.

Ask industry - related questions, inquire about your customers» pain points, or simply ask for feedback.

When negotiating, the biggest thing to consider are the pain points on each side, which could be personal or professional.

The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.1 % age points.

In other words, you value friendliness and empathy, even when you're just getting your oil changed... Above all else, always be nice, and make an effort to understand and empathize with your buyers» and sellers» points of view.»

Some higher - end brands live in both the fashion and comfort world — even if a few luxe designers are loath to admit they try to make shoes comfortable, as though it devalues their brand, Schneider - Levy points out.

They also report that social media is the second most likely way U.S. Millennials will learn about a new product (26 percent of respondents), just 3 percentage points behind TV advertising (29 percent).

In the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.

The companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

But, as Wolff points out, they also have a big disadvantage — they can be obviated entirely.

Study up, and make good points the next time your representatives in Congress hold town hall meetings.

This video does a pretty good job of outlining the main points, however:

But as Robertson points out, the implementation and ratification will take another year - plus.

Sound points, but when you get down to the methodology, I am not how much stock I'd put in Facebook being a disappointment to marketers.

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

As Brito points out, «There is nothing illicit or illegal about bitcoin.

The S&P 500 index edged 2.72 points higher to 1,692.09.

He points to Japan, wherenthe Nikkei index hit about 40,000 points in the»90s; today's it» sn9, 500.

Not because I'm rude, but because the first step in the long road to getting paid is identifying real pain points and creating practical solutions that someone's willing to pay you to provide.

At the March 20 - 21 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 % to 1.75 %, as had been widely expected.

However, if we look at estimates of earnings before interest and taxes, which removes the effect of tax payments, the S&P is expected to see an increase of 8.6 percentage points.

For one, Forrester points out that Facebook isn't good at driving engagement between businesses and their customers.

Washington voters passed legalization measure Initiative 502 with a margin of nearly 10 points.

He points to Japan, where the Nikkei index hit about 40,000 points in the»90s; today's it's 9,500.

Craig Fehr, Edward Jones's Canadian investment strategist, points out that every other sector besides utilities and telecoms posted double - digit gains last year.

You should primarily watch the speaker, but allow your glance to bounce to your target when the speaker finishes interesting points.

On Wednesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index was within two points of its all - time high.

As the giant social network points out, it has 650 million sports fans.

As Kessler correctly points out, the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was basically a covert CIA operation — a fact that Congressional investigators have had to dance around as they proceed with their Benghazi witch - hunt.

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

Embrace customer desires and eliminate their pain points.

Of course, neither situation is ideal, as Naked Security by Sophos points out.

At 7:28 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were up 2 points, or 0.01 percent.

Owning so many of the logistical control points of the pulse trade is a core part of AGT's competitive advantage in what is otherwise a low - margin commodity business.

Mr. Guillebeau has many points to make, but I will sum up a few of them below: You don't need a lot of money to start a business.

He points to the hearse and I look over.

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

«If you look at someone who takes five, six, seven meds a month, a lot of the pain points you can only address if you are the pharmacy.»

It's hard to know how significant but it could be ten, fifteen, twenty basis points.

That is not a problem: Start summarizing the main points.

Bonus points for a healthy variety of videos, interviews and case studies that keep this 10 - week, 10 - hour - a-week course engaging.

Apple has always touted Apple Pay as one of the big selling points of Apple Watch, unfortunately for Canadians it's a feature that will be absent at launch.

On the day, the Dow dropped 0.93 %, or 204.69 points, to close at 21,844.01.

Zandberg points out that alcohol companies are experts at developing and promoting consumer brands, something that cannabis firms, until now confined to the medical space, haven't done before.

This year's second most popular resolution - looking for a new job - also points to a growing optimism.

But he makes some compelling points about the city and its future.

Yet, once a letter of intent is in hand, many business owners seek counsel to cut through these complexities and gain prescriptive, salient action points to guide them all the way to the closing and for a time afterward.

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

«It wins huge game - changing brownie points for both the giver and the recipient.»

An unnamed source says the cost could be up to 25 basis points per transaction, compared to 15 down south (a basis point is 1 / 100th of a percentage point).