Not exact matches
As marketers, we often
focus most
of our
attention on new customers and their acquisition costs while overlooking the needs and value
of returning customers, the very people who will help us
really build profits.
Here are a few common «lack
of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead
of one thing
really well — Getting things done themselves instead
of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead
of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying
attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead
of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week
The
attention of global foreign exchange markets in recent months has not
really been
focused on exchange rates among the major countries (Table 4).
«We are
really focused on consistent execution
of service and we pay
attention to new technologies that can help us provide customers with a seamless experience,» DiGiacomo says.
«One
of the things that we have placed
focus on in our company and requires even more
attention, is a dynamic training program, to offer the right type
of service to
really help improve the overall image within the food industry and to help raise the customer service bar in general in the BVI, which has an economy based on tourism and financial services,» she says.
That is only fair
really, after the Germany international was the
focus of all the
attention while he was struggling for form.
After facing our fourth game in the English Premier League this weekend, Arsenal will face the first
of the six group games in the Europa League and if Arsene Wenger is true to his word it is likely to be a much changed team that lines up for the Gunners and that could well mean that we do not get a good result, but will the Arsenal fans
really mind or will we accept that Wenger needs to
focus all his
attention on the EPL games?
Each
of the children
really looks forward to getting a night out at a restaurant they choose with
focused individual
attention from their favorite grown - ups.
ONE: Toddlers have a few critical times
of the day when they
really need your
focus to be on them — to «fill their cup» with your love, play, and
attention.
Even ten minutes
of true
attention is worth more than three hours
of being «together» but never
really focusing on what your tween is saying.
Says Finkel: «The cruel twist is that, just as we've built the form
of marriage that requires all
of this
really targeted, specific
focus on your spouse's psychological needs — the sorts
of things that are going to take time together,
focused attention, energy and motivation — we are investing not more time for the relationship but less.»
«The idea
of focusing so much
attention on brown rice versus white rice - enriched cereal is
really taking the thunder away from strategies that would be more appropriate.»
If a piece
of content
really needs to capture
attention immediately, the call to action needs to be super-clear and
focused.
Like a magician's trick, it takes our
attention off
of where it should
really be
focused: on the commission's crucial recommendations for campaign finance reform.»
The
attention surrounding Governor Cuomo's handling
of the Moreland Commission is «an easy distraction,» they write, that «takes our
attention off
of where it should
really be
focused... the commission's crucial recommendations for campaign finance.»
This happens because a key behavioural characteristic
of Defence Contractors is that they will always choose to conceal technical risks identified early in the programme, by engaging with procurement officials and getting them to
focus on declared risks which ordinarily fall in the trivia category, whilst skilfully diverting their
attention away from those
really huge «show stopping» risks which they will only reveal later on, when things go wrong, to realise their objective
of «growing» the Contract by getting Abbey Wood Team Leader to raise Contract Amendments and / or let Post Design Services Contracts.
«That was a massive collapse that led a lot
of people to
really focus more
attention on vultures,» Buechley says.
«If we can narrow our search to one part
of the gene, then we can
really focus attention on that area to see if something there is linked to the disease.»
Set fewer goals and
focus your
attention on the handful
of things you're
really passionate about.
Focus on all
of your sensations,
really paying
attention to how the experience feels to you.
We've gotten pretty good at saving time and energy during the day — meals from Sakara Life, our organic meal delivery business, help free our minds from having to think about food and instead allow us to
focus on the things that
really need our time and
attention — like leading a team
of 80 employees and making sure our thousands
of clients nationwide get their healthy food on time.
Elise is incredibly thoughtful and
focuses so much
of her
attention to personalizing a plan — making sure it
really worked for ME.
«There are a lot
of pathways that still need to be explored, but basically, we can conclude that bringing
focus and
attention to the present moment and
really exercising that non-judgmental
attention [through mindfulness] seems to strengthen connections in the brain and then result in this kind
of re-regulation
of the body,» says Lindsay.
I love the satin lipsticks but adore the look
of really bright matte lips where they are the
focus of attention.
What
really caught my
attention was that their mission was to
focus on the positive side
of Detroit.
The site
focuses a lot
of its
attention to determining your personality and matching you with others but besides that you cant
really do a lot on the site.
The moments where she's the
focus of the flick are
really the only ones worth paying
attention to, and that's a credit to Green's go for broke performance.
We had good,
focused attention from the chief minister and a
really good team
of officials in Lahore.»
However, we are
really concerned with the validity and reliability
of the personnel decisions, not the measures themselves, and the screening approach is designed to
focus attention on those teachers who are near the margins
of each performance category.
More and more
attention goes to students just on the verge
of passing, and schools don't have capacity to
focus on students who are doing
really well or
really badly.
With cars like the Ford
Focus RS and Honda Civic Type Rcruising the street, the Mazda 3 doesn't
really get all
of the
attention it deserves.
It's always sad to see a service go, but it will be a good opportunity for them to
focus 100 %
of their
attention to a project that will
really take off than to only
focus a small portion
of their
focus on something that's just doing alright for itself.
Having said that, he wryly admits that the experience
of turning in a screenplay and having the director «challenge every word» can
really «
focus one's
attention.»
Investing in these markets
really began to heat up after the turn
of the 21st century, when most
of the
attention was
focused on the so - called BRIC countries, which are Brazil, Russia, India and China.
If you are constantly having to keep an eye on each
of your pets to make sure that they aren't going to hurt each other, are you
really going to be able to set aside a couple
of hours each day to
focus your
attention solely on your parrot?
The graphics are what you would expect from a game
of the 21st century, but are not meant to be the
focus of our
attention: Hard Reset is gameplay orientated, ultimately, and in that area alone, it
really excels.
That
really bothers me because they represent the type
of developer I love and that is all too rare: one that
focuses on top - quality writing, morally ambiguous stories, complex RPG systems with punishing limits and gameplay that forces you to constantly pay
attention and think.
After all, much
attention has been
focused on the sheer physical ambitiousness
of recent
really big pictures by, say, Julian Schnabel and others.
«What
really focuses a banker's
attention is the prospect
of closing a deal within six months,» Mandelstam said.
But if you
really want to get into nifty mapping software, take a look at dynamic mapping applications that let you shift the centre
of your
attention and bring various clusters
of associations into
focus depending on what you've chosen.
What I'd
really like to see, though, is a moratorium on slide presentations and a return to the human speaker as the
focus of attention.
However, it is the whole life insurance where the company
really excels so this will be the
focus of our
attentions today.
That's especially true
of Portrait Mode, which
really focuses attention and emotion on the subject, blurring out the world, for an almost old - world film feel.