Sentences with phrase «so business figures»

The ten or so business figures who accompanied the PM were just «tourists», No 10 insisted.

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And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

St. Paul, Minn., is home to the so - called Defense Alliance, an independent business network that helps small - business owners figure out the daunting task of winning contracts from Uncle Sam — specifically, the Department of Defense.

You need to ask yourself the hard questions now so that you can get busy and figure out how to position your business on the strategic roadmap with the big guys — without ending up as road kill.

For one thing, the company selling the franchise has already invested in a brand people recognize regionally or nationally and in doing so has figured out a business strategy that has been proven to work.

Sabongui also helped him figure out how to refuel his tank and realign his responsibilities — toward more mentoring, for example — so he had a greater sense of purpose and personal reward even as the business slump continued.

The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures» worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci's first year since coming out of stealth mode.

So, given that driving more traffic to your site will increase your online business's odds of success, you jhave to figure out: How do you do it?

Despite its size and power, the biggest challenge for the company isn't all that different from what other media companies are facing: Its core business is slowly fading, due primarily to competition from the Web, so Bloomberg has to figure out how to transition from that business to a different one.

«The key, in business and in leadership, is staying really close to the other people who kind of know what is going on so that it doesn't take you too long for you to figure that out.»

So, being smart or talented isn't going to help you unless you can use those smarts to figure out a way to simplify those tasks that will make a business successful.

There are so many ways to set up your promotions with different audiences and media that you just have to go through some trial and error to figure out the perfect mix that works for your business.

Relying almost exclusively on data - driven processes, Nguyenova is a proponent of continuous AB testing in multiple areas of the business (to quickly figure out what works and what doesn't), and encourages constant adaptability so startups never run the risk of going obsolete or succumbing to competition.

I've finally figured out why I like it so much, and why other apps like Hicphat and even Yammer are going to be the defacto messaging tools in business over the next 5 - 10 years.

Either way, remember that it's important to use realistic figures so that your budget can help you guide your business.

It's not unusual for world class faculty to be paid so generously, but the highest paid business school professors tend to be widely known and publicly visible figures at universities that can afford them, not at a troubled school that has been in a long - term fight for survival.

So it's critical for you to identify those stakeholders — and figure out clear ways to communicate with them — in case your business or theirs is hit by a disaster.

If you think about the next five years, it's going to get harder and harder to make money in transactional businesses, so you've got to figure out some way to break out of that.

So I figured it'd be the perfect time to put together a few tips in four steps that will make the journey more enjoyable for any business traveler.

These business leaders have figured out a few techniques — and one of them is to not focus so much on their age.

So whether your business is still in its infancy or in the middle of a full customer - engagement evaluation, figure out which persona your company tends to have.

As they do so, be sure to determine whether the profit figures have been disclosed before or after taxes and the amount of returns the current owner is getting from the business.

In a world where even the lowly buggy whip has moved into the online realm (seriously, Google it), Yellow Media, that provider of inexpensive booster seats also known as the Yellow Pages, has been buying up rival phone directories and figuring out ways to make its antiquated business model work by slowly, so slowly, moving its services online.

A TalkTalk spokesperson clarified to Business Insider that this 1.2 million figure is made up of multiple pieces of data from each compromised individual — email addresses, names, and so on.

Businesses need to figure their costs, employees» work hours and who their full - time employees are so they know who will be offered coverage; they should build up their reporting systems, and if they're not offering coverage, they should decide how to realign the workforce to reduce exposure to penalties, he says.

So Stix holed up in his office for a couple of weeks and started doing research, trying to figure out where the business had gone wrong.

So says consultant Keith McFarland, who is one of a number of business thinkers trying to figure out how to transform the strategic planning process into something entrepreneurs can embrace.

Combining with Disney are 21st Century Fox's critically acclaimed film production businesses, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together offer diverse and compelling storytelling businesses and are the homes of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape of Water and The Martian — and its storied television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which have brought The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons and so many more hit TV series to viewers across the globe.

With so many different franchises for sale today, figuring out which franchise opportunity is the right business opportunity can be daunting and difficult to say the least.

«Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green not only backs up everything it says with well - established facts and figures so you finish the book thoroughly convinced Jay and Shel are telling you the absolute truth, it also opens your mind to endless possibilities around marketing your business.

A connector thinks about - what questions / context do I need to ask that this person is not giving me, so that I can figure out how to play a role to help them in succeeding in life or business - where I can be helpful?

With so many content formats available — each with its own particular strengths and limitations — it's not easy to figure out which ones will work best for your business.

So far the company has done jack shit for business, aside from drum up a deal with Juno Therapeutics which gave them $ 25 million shekels for the boffins to run around and figure some shit out.

Investors are not just swayed by large figures, so making a claim that your business will turn in a large amount of profit is not just enough.

I knew Mohnish Pabrai and Guy Spier owned nearly 10 % of the business between the two of them, and figured that if they liked this business, management was probably not so bad.

«What's going on is that many CEOs, COOs, GMs, and other executives haven't figured out that sales and marketing alignment is more about culture, philosophy and business orientation than it is about marketing providing sales with leads, marketing messages and sexy product brochures and sales selling enough so everyone, especially those in marketing, gets to keep their jobs.»

HOFFMAN: So an idea isn't complete until you figure out how to build the business.

So, whether you want to increase revenue, bring on a class action lawsuit, or increase the number of qualified candidates, figuring out your audience is key to driving your business growth.

Buying or launching a business involves many steps, so it's easy to feel confused when trying to figure out your first move.

If you can't figure out what occurred in that interview and are so stupid that you fall for such ridiculous pap, then you have no business voting.

Meanwhile Justice Moro — so far largely seen as an impartial individual heading up a serious and comprehensive operation exposing corruption practices of mainstream politicians and powerful business figures — had made a critical move when he decided to make public the contents of a series of tapped phone calls intercepted by the police while investigating Lula.

Those figures explain why Labour scores so badly on having business policies that are good for the economy as a whole.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

Critics say the club is being used as a means of allowing business figures to fund the Tories without publicly revealing they do so.

Senior business figures have responded with suspicion and alarm to his arguments, pointing out that law - abiding companies should not be portrayed so negatively.

So when wine is allowed to be sold in grocery stores I think the liquor stores instead of fighting this to the bitter end they should be embracing the change and start to approach this like every other business in the US that has competitors and learn what their customers like, and learn about customer service, do a marketing plan, figure out how to compete against the grocer like most liquor stores in other states where wine is sold in grocery stores do.

So this month we have seen Chuka Umunna launch a Future Candidates Programme aimed at encouraging more business figures to stand for the Labour Party.

This isn't a burden, it's an insurance program that covers the salaries so businesses can figure out coverage while an employee is away so that they don't have to lose good employees.»

«I was so taken aback by the promotion's success I focused on nurturing that spark assuming we'd figure out the business model as the company continued to scale,» Kadakia wrote in the surprisingly candid email in which he details the company's struggles.

Your business is personal so only you can know the most effective way of expressing your aesthetic — and it will likely take a little trial and error to figure out what that means for you.