Sentences with phrase «spurring sales by»

Well, since Amazon gets a cut of any transaction that takes place, spurring sales by any means available obviously makes good business sense.

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Learn to tell the difference between the sales that won't go forward unless a relationship is nurtured and maintained, and the sales that are better served by getting prospects excited about buying your product or service, then spurring them to reap the benefits immediately.

Walmart, eager to continue its streak of 14 quarters of comparable sales growth in the U.S., has made spurring shopper traffic a top priority by offering services like drive - by pickup for groceries and introducing express lanes for pharmacy prescription pickup.

Apple's days of enormous growth spurred by iPhone and iPad sales are over because there's just not enough new market opportunity for the devices, one analyst says.

Walmart's e-commerce sales have been spurred on by recent acquisitions, increasing 29 % in the most recent quarter compared with the same period last year.

Spurred by calls that gun controls were imminent, buyers purchased more Remington firearms, and sales surged 36 percent, to $ 1.3 billion in 2013, Moody's said.

Growth in retail sales and investment has also picked up, spurred by stronger stock markets, falling unemployment and more buoyant sentiment.

Spurred on by the literal belief about the buying journey being nearly 70 % complete before sales assistance is requested.

The Mirror understands that Spurs have made an approach for the Germany international, who is up for sale and valued by the Bundesliga champions at around # 20m.

Thursday 4 January 2018 First team: Spurs v West Ham United (Premier League) Wembley Stadium, connected by EE, 8 pm Tickets on restricted general sale Live updates on Twitter @SpursOfficial

Yet, today, with just under two weeks to go before the Transfer Window slams shut, Arsenal Football Club sit diminished by fringe player sales and first team injuries, whilst Spurs, their biggest rivals from last season, and throughout history, have strengthened.

But these very valid points are undermined by her unnecessary finger - pointing at feminism, which feels more like a tactic to spur book sales rather than an honest assessment of how the movement actually deterred breastfeeding.

Each also acknowledges that boosting sales tax revenues by spurring new economic development will take years.

Dozens of Central New Yorkers gathered on the lawn in front of the East Genesee Street offices of Planned Parenthood in Syracuse Tuesday, saying they were spurred into action by undercover videos of the agency's executives apparently talking about the sale of body parts culled from aborted fetuses for medical research.

MASSENA - Legislation was signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today that may help spur economic development in St. Lawrence County through the sale of a block of hydropower from the St. Lawrence - Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project.

«Simplified nutritional labels spur healthier choices in grocery stores: Price sensitivity dropped by 19 percent while sales increased.»

Other elephant watchdogs worry that DNA tracking will prove too effective and spur more ivory trading by permitting legal sales — just as the South Africans hoped.

Spurred by growth in online music sales, Entertainment / Lifestyles overtook Personals / Dating to become the leading paid content category, with consumers spending $ 264.8 million on the category in the first half of 2005.

General Motors +21 %, or +43 % for New GM (Buick - Cadillac - Chevrolet - GMC) Spurred by fleet sales and incentive spending, General Motors regained the top spot in the U.S. auto market in March — although, in a statistic that's ripe with foreshadowing, the company actually sold more cars and trucks in China than in the USA.

However, August vehicle sales surprised, jumping 15.3 % to 420,101 units compared with July and 28.3 % ahead of year - ago, spurred by deliveries of light vehicles that set an all - time record of 405,518.

Yet the company persisted and since 2013 has begun to see an upward shift in its sales spurred by introducing two new crossovers — a segment that U.S. consumers are clamoring for — and the stupendously cheap Mirage.

Although Pontiac has been moving more G8 sedans than ever in the last two months, those sales are likely spurred by significant incentives.

And now, spurred by markedly decreased fuel prices, the auto industry seems poised for continued robust sales, especially in the types of vehicles that enthusiasts tend to choose — trucks and SUVs, musclecars, and sporty compacts.

Sales of the all - electric Nissan LEAF jumped 423.5 percent to 1,937, spurred by the move of vehicle assembly to Nissan's vehicle and battery assembly facilities in Smyrna, Tenn., as well as a substantial price repositioning to include a wider range of trim levels and added value.

I'm spurred on by every sale and every smile of a happy reader.

There are certain tactics that are often considered by marketing strategists, as well as Amazon buyers — such as downpricing an eBook in order to spur sales that will potentially up the book's exposure in other places on Amazon — but there is no single formula that will guarantee prime placement.

This offer would have meant that neither Amazon nor Hachette would receive any of the sales price on these authors» titles, a move which Amazon claimed was meant to spur the parties into reaching an agreement while still ensuring that the authors were not harmed by the negotiations.

A hybrid publisher that is confused by these questions or dismissive is probably not selling and marketing your book to retailers, and may rely only on you and Amazon to spur sales.

ComiXology's Thor sale is no doubt spurred by the release this week of the new movie Thor: The Dark World.

According to the article, the week leading up to Christmas showed the highest print sales in three years, possibly spurred by the release of a number of celebrity book titles.

«Although Apple expanded its iPad lineup by keeping around older models and offering a lower entry price point of $ 249, it still wasn't enough to spur iPad sales given the excitement around the launch of the new iPhones,» IDC analyst Jitesh Ubrani said in a statement.

In fact, recent reports from the company suggest that e-Books sales have overtaken physical copies in the USA for the first time in its history, no doubt spurred on by the device's success.

In an attempt to spur mainstream adoption of its e-reader, the Kindle, (and to fend off the growing number of competitors in the e-reader, digital book, and tablet market) Amazon reduced the e-reader price by more than half and established a policy of capping off e-book prices at $ 9.99, which publishers criticized, arguing that the low prices of e-books would cannibalize sales of higher priced hardcover books.

Largely spurred by the growth of online retailers — a model that leaves the traditional middleman out in the cold — publishers are seeing amazing opportunities to maximize sales and develop customer networks like never before.

«Although Apple expanded its iPad lineup by keeping around older models and offering a lower entry price point of $ 249, it still wasn't enough to spur iPad sales given the excitement around the launch of the new iPhones.

Despite a recent increase in home sales, spurred on mainly by the first - time home buyer tax credit, U.S. home prices fell 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2010 from the fourth quarter of 2009.

Companies with a large share of global sales have outperformed other groups of stocks this year based on the uncertain prospects for the US economy, U.S. dollar weakness, and high hopes for a global economic recovery, spurred by developing economies.

Spurred by Destiny's sales figures on PS platforms, Sony and Activision are poised to continue their mutually beneficial partnership for Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, the latest installment in the action behemoth that will whisk the series into the year 2065.

The greatest irony is that the American and PAL versions of Super Metroid sold well as a result of aggressive marketing by Nintendo that was spurred on by the game's poor sales in Japan.

Dramatic sales were trumpeted by indies, by the press, and by the platform holders themselves, spurring huge increases in content supply which inevitably pulled each ecosystem back towards the more familiar hit - driven model.

Along with a boosted catch, a second hoped - for payoff was the sale of carbon credits on international markets aimed at offsetting greenhouse gas pollution by financing projects that absorb heat - trapping carbon dioxide — typically by planting trees but in this case through spurring plankton growth.

Recent comments by a Ministry of Commerce official who refused to be named indicate that incentives to scrap existing cars so as to spur new car sales, which have been sagging as of late, will be passed soon.

This is spurred by three major factors — increasing awareness about the real purpose of life insurance, rapidly declining term insurance rates and the sale of term plans on the internet.

It's that tØ exchange, spurred by a July regulatory finding, that would be financed via the ICO sale.

Spurred by the iPhone 4S launch, several analysts expect sales of Apple's iPhone lineup to explode during the fourth quarter of this year.

In terms of the sale of other devices, Apple sold 4.2 million Macs this quarter, a four percent year - on - year increase, spurred by the release of the company's new line of USB - C MacBook Pro laptops.

CoinMetro has been since been spurred by recent success to extend the token sale up for XCM until Saturday the 31st of March, 2018.

• Designed and implemented Sky Box program that presented up - to - the - hour performance metrics broken down by department and projected best - performing department on top, spurring competition amongst sales teams.

The white paper, The U.S. Housing Market: Current Conditions and Policy Considerations, calls for increased lending to creditworthy home buyers and more loan modifications, mortgage refinancings, and short sales to reduce the rising inventory of foreclosed homes and help stabilize and revitalize the housing industry; an approach long recommended by NAR to help spur the housing market recovery.

Nor does it say what approach it will take on Fannie and Freddie reform, what approaches it will take to replace HAMP, HARP, and the other foreclosure - prevention programs in place, how it will dispose of the 200,000 government - owned foreclosed properties, or how it will spur home sales by boosting job growth.