Sentences with phrase «several businesses this year»

Not exact matches

Business Insider spoke with several people who have known him for years.

According to the report, Foursquare is now back on track to beat sales expectations by the end of the year, and the business development team has been successful in attracting several new advertisers to their «post-check-in product.»

The advantage of having a small business with a smaller customer base is that you are better able to provide your clients with the attention they deserve — the kind of attention that will keep them satisfied and loyal to you for several years.

This is welcome after several years of lacklustre investment by Canadian businesses across the economy.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

But for several years, companies in southern Louisiana, where his business is located, have suffered along with the oil industry, which is affected by changes in global oil supplies and technologies like fracking.

While IBM has been selling Watson data crunching for several years, Kenny said that many of those deals have involved IBM's consulting teams helping businesses use the company's machine learning services.

Over the years, several Canadian Business editors had the pleasure of interviewing Suzanne.

The transition was several years in the making and represents the latest chapter in one of Canada's most enduring, and successful, family businesses.

Following her graduation in 2009, Toshack spent several years working at the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney before enrolling at Harvard Business School.

He is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager with 10 + years of experience in the IT arena, advisor to several fast - growing ventures, popular blogger and contributing author in tech and business media (Inc., Wired, Pando Daily) Also, Andrew frequently speaks about project management, business and innovation at such events as E2 Innovate, PMI Global Congresses, Enterprise Connect, IBM Connect and more.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

Of course, I would argue that any business starting out, especially if it is a CPG brand sold at mass retailers like mine, investing heavier in marketing the first several years is a must.

The OECD, in a 2007 economic outlook assessment, singled out the U.S. as having an especially sluggish rate of business investment, even several years into the post-dot-com-bust recovery.

There's No There There Mainly for the sake of my sanity, I had also connected my Bitcoin account to a real bank account (again, it was one from years and several businesses ago), which is the only reason I ever got started with this whole crazy system.

Not only is that clear and inspirational, it gives everyone plenty of scope for the business to aim at over the next several years.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

On average, a broker who connects a small business with a healthcare provider collects between 4 and 8 percent of the company's health premiums — fees that translate to several hundred dollars or more per employee per year, and keep coming in for as long as the business customer continues to maintain coverage.

But after several years of experiencing tropical weather all year long, with a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle, healthy living, and business opportunities that far exceed the coastal opportunities in the U.S., I'd never go back.»

While the tough job of organically growing Scotia's wealth management business had been underway for several years, the bank suddenly found itself with options to fast - track that growth.

I've spent several years listening to entrepreneurs pitch their deals and I've read more than my share of business plans.

Several years ago, Jordan Fantaay, founder and CEO of email productivity startup Fantoo, ran a business that created hardware for sports and fitness entertainment systems.

This is how LendingClub's business sounds eerily like the activity that caused several years of losses at Morgan Stanley when Mack was at the helm (he resigned in 2011).

Several years ago, when he was in university, Cutler ran a brokerage business connecting his classmates with students looking for tutors.

If so, you may be doing something wrong, according to Victor Green, author of How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying, and a serial entrepreneur who's launched several successful companies and spent the past 15 years consulting with other entrepreneurs.

Lots of businesses have changed hands in the past several years, but plenty of money is still sitting on the sidelines.

• You know several of their goals for the year, including personal and / or business goals.

Several years ago, my company needed to hire a contractor to construct a new building for our business.

In a post laying out several tips for start - ups in the new year, Blumenthal separates the big data hype from the reality on the ground for many small businesses, and offers sensible - sounding advice on how founders can avoid being overwhelmed by walking a middle way.

According to Gibson, the GDS is slowly changing the way it does business, and has been for the past several years.

I personally have worked at home for the past four years, running several businesses.

Before coming to Business Insider as assistant managing editor, Lyndsay worked for several years in book publishing, most recently in the literary department of ICM Partners.

Over the past few years, several individuals have told me effectively the same thing: «Books are business cards on steroids.»

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

I quickly learned that Turkey is the envy of many with several programs to help new businesses including tax credits to angel investors and grants to technology - based entrepreneurs to support their first year of operation.

«When we think back over the centuries that Lloyd's has been doing business, of course we understand that women weren't even in the workplace for several hundred years,» said Beale.

In a poll conducted earlier this year among several hundred corporate members of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a nonprofit business - research organization in Houston, more than half the respondents (56.8 %) said they worked in fully walled offices, while less than a quarter (21.4 %) claimed modular settings.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

«Over the past several years, we've grown our audience and our content offering exponentially, and now is the right time to add Joel's creative and strategic leadership to the team and drive the next phase of Hulu's content business,» Hopkins said in a statement.

With all the different domain extensions that have been enabled over the last several years, it's incredibly easy for a new business to settle for something like a dot - info, dot - people, or dot - business extension.

How many were still in business after several years?

In the past year, Coty has bought several brands from Procter & Gamble Co, the personal care and beauty business of Brazils Hypermarcas SA, and stakes in cosmetics retailer Younique and ghd.

The company had said earlier this year it was looking for buyers for the sprawling property, where it assembles the Q400 and several business jets.

The Crown corporation had the mortgage insurance business to itself until the 1970s, when several private - sector firms tried and failed, over the next 20 years, to establish themselves.

«In Europe, we have business in hand that will ramp up over the next several years that will almost triple our sales there,» says Hasenfratz.

The company said earlier this year it was looking for buyers for the sprawling Downsview property, which assembles its Q400 turboprops and several business jets.

Several of Lauren Conrad's former castmates on The Hills, which ended last year, have started businesses of their own.

After a few years, he built a brick business where he had several employees and was thriving, certainly relative to where he'd been before,» she relates.

Jade and I worked at Warner Bros. for three years prior to starting our company, and we took on several smaller projects in the first couple of years of our business before we went after bigger projects.

For the past few years I've hosted or have been a guest on several hundred webinars, teaching people a variety of things from LinkedIn marketing to how to start a business from scratch.