Sentences with phrase «sales agents get»

Your pocket will be exhausted until it becomes empty because that's how they earn as a business and how sales agents get commission from — the more services they are able to sell, the bigger commission they get.

Not exact matches

Many real - estate agents get involved in business sales because it often involves the sale of property.

For the old - style agent charging the standard seven - and - three commission, though — 7 % on the first $ 100,000 of the sale price, 3 % on anything over that — life is expected to get tougher.

A short sale is similar to a regular sale in that the seller contracts a listing agent to put the property on the market, but with a short sale the lender gets involved, too.

«As smaller farmers got out of the business, we took 15 to 20 of the largest growers and began packing and marketing for them out of our packinghouse and acting as a sales agent.»

BUT he (AW) did say last few days of the transfer window is the most busies time where he gets calls from players / agents / clubs wanting to join / offer / sale

The point was Wolves get a player that gets them promoted, Porto get a massive cut from his next sale to more than make up the valuation gap, and his agent gets two paydays.

This was absolutely not a sale in the traditional sense — it's glorified loan meant to get Porto the kind of fee they wanted (and couldn't get from a big club a year ago), to get Wolves promoted (which is their massive payday), and to get Mendes more on the agent fee front (which is more lucrative for him via sale than a traditional loan).

On Verizon's website this past weekend, the company reported unusually high call volumes to speak to an agent, and recommended that customers get help for sales and support on the website or via the company's smartphone app.

Set in 2010, Michael Shannon (They Came Together, Man of Steel) plays an opportunistic Orlando - based real estate agent named Richard «Rick» Carver, who has gone from getting people into homes through sales to getting people out of homes through evictions, and he's making a heck of a lot more money doing the latter.

Also, getting in to the Director's Fortnight [at Cannes], to launch that movie on that international platform — I had access to international financing companies and foreign sales agents.

We've also got a bloody Pat Healy on the poster for «Cheap Thrills,» the Midnighters entry that's foreign sales rights have already been snatched by international sales agents Films Distribution.

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Our sales agent Christian was very helpful with a goal of getting us what we wanted.

Yes, you can get the attention of an agent and publisher with 60,000 book sales — especially since the traditional publishing averages LESS than 5,000.

To get movie interest you need an agent that specializes in that and the way to inspire the rights sale of your book is to get a ton of book sales, a lot of media attention, and support from known people who provide strong testimonials for your book.

I make a nice extra income from all my self pubbed books and my friend got snapped up last year as her book sales were attracting the attention of a well know UK agent.

Or read «Hot Deals» in Publisher's Weekly magazine to get names of agents who've brokered recent sales.

Either they got an agent on the strength of a first sale, or they got one due to having had one or more successful e-books.

It gives me a simple, fair way to cut all the other parts of the value - chain in on my success: because this is a regular retail sale, my publishers get their regular share, likewise my agents.

The really interesting part is that every one got an agent AFTER they made a sale, not before.

In light of this new agency commission model where Amazon and Apple will no longer carry the product per se but have an agreement to sell titles via their site in exchange for a 30 % commission on the sale (see earlier post to get up to speed), suddenly agents need to re-examine the whole definition of net receipts in publishing contracts.

Macmillan wants dictate ebook prices for end customers (in other words, no discounting by resellers) and will treat its resellers as «agents» who get a fixed 30 % of the sale.

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For established clients, agents may assist in getting their backlists on sale again, and helping release digital shorts in between larger book releases (a strategy more and more authors are using to keep readers engaged and earn extra money in the process).

This is a huge paradigm shift for publishers, who have typically taken a business - to - business approach to sales and marketing, pitching their list to key agents within the industry supply chain; primarily sales reps who stood the best chance of getting their books sold into bookstores.

I sometimes think about getting an agent, then I read the 15 % fees they want from my sales.

David Naggar, VP of Kindle content and independent publishing, sent a letter to a few Hachette authors, literary agents and Authors Guild president Roxana Robinson over the weekend suggesting that «for as long as this dispute lasts, Hachette authors would get 100 % of the sales price of every Hachette ebook we sell.

If I'm successful in getting enough sales, an agent or publisher will snap me up and they can worry about producing the print book.

Some people take ten years to get an agent, and I know people who have an agent but then, after ten years, have yet to have a book sale (although I think that might say more about their agent, actually!).

If I had lucked out and got an agent for my first novel, a vampire romantic suspense, and it had sold to a publisher, and if it had sold only 3,000 copies in the first months, (i.e. being with a publisher wouldn't have led to an increase in sales due to the magic fairy pixie dust I'm told that publishers employ), I would never have published the second or third book in the series and likely would have been dropped by the publisher for publishing a «dud».

So in the same way that the realtor will try to get you a good price (but will be reluctant to jeopardize the sale by asking too much), your literary agent won't ask for a killer sum just because you think your book is worth it.

(Got ta love us amateurs; - >) You're the only person that I've seen that included what the publishers goals for sale are, most don't want unsolicited work, so getting an agent is the writer's dream.

If an agent has been in business for a couple of years and has no real track record (or won't share sales information — a major red flag) it's a strong indication that he doesn't have the skills or the contacts needed to get editors» attention.

Someone with these assets will probably start making sales right away, but someone who's coming to agenting from a non-publishing-related field is going to have a much tougher time getting up to speed — if indeed they ever do.

Sometimes, eg for sales in Eastern Europe or Asia, there could be a local agent involved as well, so after they've all got their share you'll only end up with 50 - 60 % of the advances and the royalties earned.

Yes, the agent banked the money, sat about for six months and then advised the author to self - publish, because these days publishers like to see whether you get any sales on your own.

If the author's agent has managed to retain all the rights mentioned above, however, the publisher doesn't get this income and relies only on primary sales, hard and soft.

No worrying about selling past an advance, or taking pennies on the dollar for each sale because a publisher and agent need to get a cut.

It may be that your enthusiasm as an agent was off, that nobody else has the same enthusiasm for that client's work... For whatever reason, you may have put in all this work and can't get a sale from a publisher, but you want to continue helping the client.

I am entirely unpestered by agents, and when I thought I'd test the water and approached five of them myself, I got four rejections, only one mentioning my sales figures.

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This is the stage where your critique partners love your work, you're getting personalized rejections from agents or editors and highly complimentary reports from your beta readers, and yet... no sale or offer has materialized.

The figures, of course, get better for the agent as the sales go up.

Through that I got an agent for my debut psychological thriller and in that process, and the sale of the novel, that fact that I was published by Kindle Press with high book sales was taken very seriously and was a bargaining chip in my negotiations.

Over the weekend, Amazon made its own appeal to authors, saying it was «thinking of proposing» that, for the duration of the negotiations, authors published by Hachette get to keep all of the revenue from their digital - book sales (see Amazon's letter to authors and agents here), with both Amazon and Hachette giving up their percentages.

IF an agent wants to see a manuscript, they get a printed book, one that can be edited easily and reprinted by the e-book & print - on - demand service & one with sales stats?

Before this, agents and writers have taken paltry royalties for their e-books sales, brushing the issue aside as unimportant because sales were low, whereas, as I've been saying for years, they needed to get the principle established before e-books took over the market.

I think the key is that if the program they are going to get you into adds value (ie: sales / exposure), then in certain cases it makes sense, but for simply being able to say you are agented, I agree, there's no value there.