Sentences with phrase «sold to people by»

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If you want to make $ 100,000, you could do it by selling a $ 100 product to 1,000 people, or by selling a $ 10,000 product to 10 people.

Aeryon, an 80 - person firm that has staked its business on serving the exacting needs of professionals with products that sell for up to $ 200,000, could end up being side - swiped by producers of the type of flying toy you bought at Best Buy for your kids for Christmas.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

The great selling will have to be matched by more great products, made by more great people, funded with more great money — and even then, there are no guarantees.

«We would have people call that they were hit by the recession, maybe they lost their job or business wasn't as good as it had been, so they'd want to sell their machine guns» Goepfert says.

The company has always celebrated the fact that most of its users aren't established businesses, but instead regular people inspired to start selling online by how easy it is to set up a Shopify store.

If you rush out to buy a new smartphone simply because it's hyped as the hot new thing — by the people who are selling it, mind you — you'll probably end up disappointed in a few months.

Even when people do sell the family home to downsize to a smaller townhouse or condo, they tend to make up for it by opting for a more upscale property with high condo fees.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

The proposed changes will also look to address the practice of «trademark squatting,» where people misuse the system by hanging onto a trademark they have no intention of using themselves, such as an internet domain name, to sell it at a later date for profit.

Current securities law dictates that an entrepreneur can only equity crowdfund, or raise money from a group of people by selling portions of his or her company to individuals who meet a handful of specifications deeming them sufficiently wealthy.

One of the quickest ways to make money fast is by selling your old books, CDs (yes, people still buy them) and DVDs as well as smartphones, smartphone chargers and gaming consoles.

The CEO, says a person familiar with his thinking, believed selling through big boxes could introduce Moore paint to new customers; once impressed by the brand's quality, he believed, they would buy directly from Moore stores.

But if you look closer, you'll see I'm always trying to hack culture by studying consumer activity and understanding where, why, and how people buy and sell.

Apple has excelled at giving people what DuBravac calls the «360 solution,» or devices designed from the ground up to work exceptionally well with the content also sold by the company.

«[The company's] entire roadmap was kind of hijacked by the fact that we needed to sell to these people,» Green said.

An analysis of Building 8's recent hires and job listings by Business Insider, as well as conversations with people close to the company, shows an ambitious effort to create and sell millions of consumer hardware units, from a supply chain outpost in Hong Kong to a planned retail push and customer call center operation.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

A person, recruited by the company to sell a product, earns commissions; if that person recruits others, this second layer is called the person's «downline.»

A lot of people were badly surprised by the recession and forced to sell their McMansions and BMW 3 Series.

The Swedish department store that was rammed by a stolen beer truck, leaving four people dead and 15 injured in Stockholm, said Sunday it regrets an announcement that it would reopen two days after the deadly attack to sell damaged goods at a «reduced price.»

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

U.S. direct selling increased 3.3 % last year, to $ 32.7 billion, and the number of people selling by that method grew 5.7 %, to 16.8 million.

People selling toothpaste cued customers by prompting them to run their tongues across their teeth to feel a film.

Freeman went on to say that IBM hadn't come across any evidence that the bug had actually been exploited by Internet attackers but said it could have been sold in the six - figure range if it'd been discovered by the wrong people.

A person familiar with the matter said WPP, owner of ad agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, had been contacted by one private equity group and a venture capital firm expressing interest in the Kantar business if WPP ever decides to sell.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

Remember, people aren't logging into Facebook during the day to be sold on something; they are likely looking to relax, connect, or even be entertained, but not held hostage by marketers gone crazy.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

For starters, in order for one set of people to cash in by buying their stocks in November and selling them in April, another set needs to be doing the opposite.

If you can develop great connections with people by first sharing and then asking through genuine conversation and active listening to find connections, you will increase your chances of successfully selling something by an order of magnitude.

The process to sell Yahoo has been churning on as a variety of potential acquirers and just plain rubberneckers get briefed by management, either by video, phone or in person (only the chosen strategic ones like Verizon and AT&T get that royal treatment).

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

Persons who have beneficially owned restricted shares of our common stock for at least six months but who are our affiliates at the time of, or any time during the 90 days preceding, a sale, would be subject to additional restrictions, by which such person would be entitled to sell within any three - month period only a number of securities that does not exceed the greater of either of the following:

Sometimes people see volatile markets and get shaken out either by selling and going to cash or refusing to buy more shares at discounted prices.

Remember, if the government gives us a tax cut they'll still have to make up the budget shortfall somehow, chiefly by selling more bonds to American citizens (who happen to be the same people getting the tax cut) or foreigners (who will raise the money by selling us more of their goods and services, or buying less of ours).

By contrast, a person that creates units of convertible virtual currency and sells those units to another person for real currency or its equivalent is engaged in transmission to another location and is a money transmitter.

It is not a substitute or replacement but a modern companion to the original best - selling Think and Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill because the people and principles are timeless.

Tozer has since sold his shares back to Wilson, but the company has undergone a rapid expansion — now employing 75 people, increasing sales by 50 % and adding new equipment and processes, including a digital printer capable of putting a picture on a piece of glass as big as 283 by 130 inches.

Shop owners can either increase the prices of what they sell for all customers, or can pass on the cost directly to customers that use high - cost methods by adding a surcharge, which encourages people to switch to low - cost methods.

Williams, a self - proclaimed health - food evangelist, said she'd like to see the company sell packs by themselves to people who can't afford the device.

The exciting opportunity for startups is to skate to where the puck is going — by thinking beyond exploitative legacy business models that amount to embarrassing blackboxes whose CEOs dare not publicly admit what the systems really do — and come up with new ways of operating and monetizing services that don't rely on selling the lie that people don't care about privacy.

In the midst of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the user data of up to 87 million people was sold by a third - party developer to Trump Campaign - linked firm Cambridge Analytica, there has been talk of Facebook potentially adding a subscription layer.

«As you get to the later stages of a market pullback or correction, people will typically sell those stocks in which they've had big profits,» Marshall Front, the Chicago - based chief investment officer at Front Barnett Associates LLC, said by phone.

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Because spending cryptocurrencies are still limited to specific instances, most people who know how to invest buy cryptocurrencies on a cryptocurrency exchange and then convert them back into a more spendable currency by selling them.

According to Jeffrey Berns, Managing Partner of Berns Weiss LLP, «the virtual currency / blockchain practice group of Berns Weiss LLP has been contacted by various people inquiring about potential legal action against Poloniex and Kraken with regard to the recent sell off at those exchanges in conjunction with DDoS attacks.»

Even a company as bottom - line obsessed as Walmart has singlehandedly doubled the market for organic food — by selling billions of dollars worth of it to people who, for the most part, never shop at Whole Foods.

Remember, Zillow is in nearly every respect already an Aggregator: it is by far the number one place people go when they want to look for a new house, and at a minimum the starting point for research when they want to sell one.

And then there is bitcoin, bitcoin allows us to have complete control over our funds, to hide them so bad people don't know they even exist in our possessions, plus we can really easily purchase them or sell them at a 3 % exchange fee at localbitcoins, and doing so safely by choosing a seller / buyer who has 100 % positive feedback, 1000 + transactions and at least 250BTC volume history on his account.