Sentences with phrase «smaller local competitors»

Certainly, avoid selling brands carried in big - box stores, as well as those sold by smaller local competitors, if possible.

Not exact matches

The lack of an active national press market, combined with an industry organised around relatively small local and state markets and an unusually high dependence on advertising in general (often more than 80 percent of revenues as opposed to around 50 percent in Europe) and classified advertising in particular has left American newspapers particularly exposed to the arrival of competitors such as the Huffington Post, Craigslist, and Monster.com.

The costs of inaction for the major Amazon rivals are first and foremost that a local competitor in a small local market looks set to steal a march on them.

But the traditional small - town local lawyer is under the gun: many communities that size are declining, and the lawyers there are older, less likely to have juniors to whom to pass on the practice, and generally work in areas (real estate, wills, document creation) most vulnerable to new competitors from outside the profession.

For example, a small business retailer suffers a decrease in business after a local competitor starts a rumor about their bad customer service.