Sentences with phrase «rather than competitor»

Such a group boycott may target a supplier or purchaser, rather than a competitor, of the brokers alleged to be the conspirators.

The acquisition will add rich content to Move's arsenal and ensure Moving.com's audience of 1 million unique visitors per month is directed to REALTOR.com rather than a competitor site, Homestore executives say.

For example, if they owned a furniture company they could give cheap transportation and priority to their furniture rather than a competitor's furniture.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long - term thinking.

Then you can show the world, and potential clients of course, your expertise in that area and why they should be hiring you rather than your competitor.

If nothing else, you might be able to get a sense of whether a difference in commissions may be a factor in why a salesperson is recommending an annuity instead of another product, one type of annuity vs. another or even one company's annuity rather than a competitor's.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long - term thinking.

I love that Google seems like it finally understands social — as a complement to search rather than a competitor, and I'm anxious to see how Google + evolves over the next 6 - 12 months.

A central part of the plan to push back the decline of Catholic education is to treat the city's successful charter school sector as a model, rather than a competitor, although charter schools have been contributing to the Catholic sector's population drain by attracting low - income families who choose a free charter over a tuition - based parochial school.

To maintain and increase their profits, breastmilk substitutes companies need to persuade parents to formula feed rather than breastfeed, to choose their formula milk rather than a competitor's, and to use their brand of baby food as early and as much as possible.

He began to retreat from the idea of a christian Council called by himself and to think seriously about the Pope as an ally rather than a competitor.

They must persuade us to choose their product rather than their competitor's.

To illustrate, Nest recently acquired Dropcam, which produces cameras that allow customers to see and monitor their home — ensuring that Dropcam would become a complementor rather than a competitor to Nest.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long - term thinking.

Why would a person choose to buy Bristol - Myers» products or invest in its stock, rather than its competitors»?

excuses aside, who did not know that arsenal were just participants rather than competitors in any of this competitions??? let us not pretend that we are surprised about all that has happened because it has been happening for the last decade including poor decisions of the ref -LCB- do not know whether it is bad luck] the last transfer window will haunt us dearly going forward... most pple here were taking a swipe at manure for buying martial and using it to justify our inactivity!!!

Now, I see yoga and weightlifting as complements rather than competitors.

Choices for families who don't want to have to take sides in the charter wars: Some school districts have tried to see charter school operators as potential partners rather than competitors.

Why not make charter operators partners rather than competitors?

Of course the upside for iTrade is to create an experience for users that keeps their eyeballs on the iTrade platform rather than a competitors.

This is a helpful development for Amazon's music customers, and its a more subtle way for the tech giant to encourage keeping listeners using its own services rather than competitors».

Amazon is focused on customers rather than competitors and that's bad news for every other company, which has to worry about real or imagined competition from the e-commerce and cloud juggernaut.

Based in part on Sittig's years as a broker's assistant managing listings and providing other support services, the partners believe sales associates perform best if given a chance to work with their colleagues as collaborators rather than competitors.

He sees the local community of real estate agents as collaborators, rather than competitors.

Not exact matches

Unlike some of his competitors, Gupta private - labels all products under the NatureBox brand, rather than sourcing them through third - party vendors.

Then instead of focusing on the negative, craft a message that makes customers question rather than outright dismiss the competitor's value.

Rather than increasing the risk of losing skilled employees to competitors, research shows that WLES makes employees more likely to stay.

Rather than embrace the attributes that people liked about them, they tried to copy attributes and designs that people liked about their competitors» products.

We managed to do better than our competitors by paying attention to deep human motivations rather than the transient nature of money.

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition down a company's supply chain rather than «horizontal» — an acquisition of a direct competitor.

Rather than looking to crush their younger competitors, the largest companies are «reaching out to make deals.»

We need to ensure Canadian companies can stay one step ahead of their global competitors, rather than always playing catch - up.

Presents another avenue for sales The convenience and accessibility of a mobile app will encourage your customers to carry out transactions with your business rather than patronize a competitor who only has a website.

Ask the first question every business must be able to answer: «Why should a potential client buy my product or services rather than those of my competitors?»

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition along a company's supply chain — rather than a horizontal acquisition of a direct competitor.

The bookseller holds tens of thousands of events nationwide at its stores to give people a reason to come to stores, rather than shop online from a competitor.

As for the notion that the big payment processors may fear cryptocurrencies as potential competitors, this could become an issue if and when cryptocurrencies recover from their current crash and settle into a less volatile pattern that encourages their use as virtual currency rather than as speculative assets.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Rather than leading an automated race to the bottom, Boomerang's tools push retailers into the realm of game theory and psychology — anticipating what competitors» responses to their moves will be, and how shoppers will perceive them.

«While we have respect for Cisco as a fierce competitor and the dominant player in the market, we are disappointed that they have to resort to litigation rather than simply compete with us in products,» Arista said.

And rather than lag behind large competitors» price increases, use your research to lead when necessary.

Rather than go national from the very beginning, a fourth competitor should look for areas that aren't already well - served by a successful regional fourth competitor.

The firm's two - year - old effort is part of a wider movement to harness digital advice platforms as a tool for advisors, rather than just as their competitors.

As a result, Netflix is in effect a competitor to those companies» on - demand cable TV services, which charge on a pay - per - view basis rather than offering a flat monthly fee like Netflix does.

With competitors making lower - priced equipment, one interesting turn has been how VR tech has made its way into more ordinary products, rather than developing on a specialist - equipment trajectory.

Rather than trying to draw China into the rules - based international economic order — a policy that dates back to Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger — the United States now regards China as a strategic competitor, bent on eroding American security and prosperity.

But then your customers start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you.

By making payments part of its oft - used messaging service rather than a standalone app, Facebook is looking to edge out dedicated P2P payment competitors like Venmo / PayPal, Google Wallet, and Square Cash, which people open less frequently.

CMIT gives me added confidence to know that I have 150 - plus partners rather than 150 - plus competitors.»