Sentences with phrase «pressures on the small business»

An unnecessary ban would have placed even more pressure on small businesses already overwhelmed by one of the worst business climates in the nation.

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Now that major cable and Internet companies (usually one in the same) have pressured the FCC to create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Information Superhighway — Google and Verizon requested net neutrality exemption for wireless Internet just last month — small businesses» online presence is in serious jeopardy.

With growing small businesses, SMB's and start - ups, there can be a lot of pressure to be on the bleeding edge of technology.

Starbucks has felt the pressure too, changing its business model for NYC locations to focus on smaller more efficient spaces.

WASHINGTON — President Obama pressured the heads of the nation's biggest banks on Monday to take «extraordinary» steps to revive lending for small businesses and homeowners, drawing a firm commitment from one large bank to make more loans and vaguer assurances from others.

Higher compensation costs are not being passed on to customers, but there will be more pressure to do so as Obamacare begins to impact small businesses in 2014.

Small business in this nation has been under a sustained and carefully orchestrated attack for years, where larger, often retail giants, put ever increasing pressure to bear on smaller independents — who are mostly «mum and dad» businesses.

The new deputy PM, Barnaby Joyce, has stated that he expects the government to deliver on the inclusion of an effects test, noting that it is «imperative that the government resist the threat and the pressure from the BCA and Wesfarmers and one or two other companies and sends a message that they are here for the whole economy and not just a small part of the economy»: Joe Kelly,» «We'll deliver betterment for small business»: Barnaby Joyce» (The Australian, 21 February 2016).

... supporting small businesses, helping people aspiring to buy their own home, reducing waiting lists, and easing upward pressure on rents and housing benefit bills.

In April this year, he said Putin «can be forced into all sorts of directions if sufficient political and other pressure is put on him», but then refused to answer questions on the subject at a Federation of Small Businesses meeting.

The training has been especially developed with the installer in mind, thecourse is easy to understand and not over-complicated by technical jargon; it has a strong practical emphasis and does not put too much pressure on the smaller company, both in terms of financial outlay and time spent out of the business.

this may be of interest to you, I was chasing a P2293 and 171 507 and I think a 174 code on a 2006 Jetta GLI, I had replaced the «Low Pressure» fuel pump and also the high pressure pump cam follower (that's where you helped), BUT because I am a small business (just me) I can not afford all the diagnostic equipment that Mr VW can, so I sent the customer to Mr VW to diagnose the problem, they assured her it was the Vacuum pump, so I purchased and fitted it and sent her on her way, oh shit phone call check engine light back on, when I checked the 2293 code had gone but not the others, why am I not surprised VW screwed a cusPressure» fuel pump and also the high pressure pump cam follower (that's where you helped), BUT because I am a small business (just me) I can not afford all the diagnostic equipment that Mr VW can, so I sent the customer to Mr VW to diagnose the problem, they assured her it was the Vacuum pump, so I purchased and fitted it and sent her on her way, oh shit phone call check engine light back on, when I checked the 2293 code had gone but not the others, why am I not surprised VW screwed a cuspressure pump cam follower (that's where you helped), BUT because I am a small business (just me) I can not afford all the diagnostic equipment that Mr VW can, so I sent the customer to Mr VW to diagnose the problem, they assured her it was the Vacuum pump, so I purchased and fitted it and sent her on her way, oh shit phone call check engine light back on, when I checked the 2293 code had gone but not the others, why am I not surprised VW screwed a customer!!!

While larger businesses are adapting to these changing customer expectations using shift workers and international call centres, research suggests small and medium sized companies are simply lengthening their working day, putting greater pressure on staff.

Whether you run a small fishery on Lake St. Clair, you hope one day to get the nod as a Car City Record's A&R person, or you teach sixth graders at St. Joan of Arc, you face a dizzying array of financial pressures, stresses on your business, and uncertainties about the economy and even about your health.

Congress has the opportunity to get patent reform done right this fall and alleviate the pressure patent trolls put on small businesses.

However, small - business owners should be cautious because of pressure to increase wages and benefits in a tight labor market, an anticipated reduction in consumer spending, and warnings from lenders against taking on too much debt.

«The small increase doesn't surprise me,» says Jean Crosby, vice chair of NAR's Business Issues Committee and general manager of Prudential Crosby Adelman, Rockford, Ill. «Owners are competing for the most productive sales associates, and that puts pressure on broker profitability — and broker income.»

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

«Reusing waste saves money for big and small businesses and relieves pressures on our planet,» says Duncan Baker - Brown.