Sentences with phrase «started calling about»

My ex left a joint card with a balance, which I didn't know until they started calling me about it.

Then other people started calling about bill collection abuse and credit reporting errors that weren't connected with a bankruptcy case.

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To promote the book, she started a blog, called Footnoted.org, where she wrote about corporate shenanigans and other news investors could use buried in the — you guessed it — SEC documents» fine print.

The best IT staffers, she found, were the ones who were able to field the calls that start with «I don't know anything about technology,» offer reassurance and empathy, and then walk people through the learning process — the ones, in other words, who offer the users some empowerment.

I called it Lean Startup and started writing about it, and it's kind of taken over my life since.

The elder Redstone controls about 80 % of the voting shares of both CBS and Viacom through a family holding company called National Amusements Inc., a chain of movie theaters started by his father (Shari Redstone controls the other 20 %).

When Hootsuite started, with just a few dozen employees, we were honestly worried about being swamped with calls from our millions of users.

In addition, while the iPhone X is the most expensive Apple phone to date, starting at about $ 1,000, Tim Cook said during the conference call that the phone was also the most popular phone sold in China during the quarter.

And when you start to dissect the so - called «elevator pitches» of star salespeople, like the ones who met you and managed to get you to do business with them, you'd be surprised at just how many follow the pattern I'm about to show you.

I wrote a pretty good piece on this a while ago that's worth revisiting and, in case you're too lazy to link back, the three main suggestions are: (1) Get Past the Past as Soon as Possible; (2) Call on Your Customers While You Still Can; and (3) When You're Thinking About Quitting, Remember Why You Started.

and, in case you're too lazy to link back, the three main suggestions are: (1) Get Past the Past as Soon as Possible; (2) Call on Your Customers While You Still Can; and (3) When You're Thinking About Quitting, Remember Why You Started.

He started telling me about JavaScript and a site called Nitrous.io and how he can write 50 functions and maybe only two of them could be error - free.

Cineplex already boasts a thriving indoor digital signage business, which it started about five years ago and expanded this year with the recent acquisition of a London, Ont., firm called EK3.

With the shock value of the fears of Musk and others abating, Arruda thinks dialogue about so - called «bad AI» will start to have a little more subtlety in 2016.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

The start - up is called Cocomo and is based in Boston — and the man whom Gates once called one of the top five programmers in the universe e-mailed Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner to tell him a little about it.

The system starts with what is called behavioral interviewing, in which candidates are barraged with tough questions about how they've handled specific assignments and problems.

As you might expect, the discussion started with what he called the «rule of three,» which is a simple way to think about the need to focus the scarce resources and bandwidth of the entrepreneur on the most critical and pressing issues.

Saddington, who is the CTO of VinWiki, an Atlanta - based start - up that provides automotive histories for used cars, also runs a cryptocurrency forum called The Bitcoin Pub and two YouTube channels about the cryptocurrency.

But when he started getting calls about Mexico, he couldn't ignore the country's huge potential.

Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»

And because of their frustration, they are starting to call organizations out about it on Twitter and in other channels.

And he also knew that the business he's starting, a service called Diggen to allow Web retailers to better target shoppers, was hardly about to inflame the passions of the kinds of people who donate money on sites like Kickstarter.

Hours after the call for a referendum, reports about long lines for cash machines started appearing on social media.

When I started out, I'd call and say I was a Top 100 Leadership Expert and was inquiring about speaking opportunities.

We called around and asked questions about their business and just basic advice for someone starting a Screenmobile.

Part two reports everything we know about America's newest companies and the entrepreneurs behind them; thanks to a rather amazing collection of researchers, we now know a whole lot more than anyone ever did about that difficult, tortuous, imaginative process called starting a business.

In October of 2016, Kalanick said he asked Page to call him to talk about «flying cars,» an area of technology that Uber is interested in, and that Page has invested in through a start - up called Kitty Hawk.

At about 50 cents a pop, the aforementioned VIX call options expiring in 13 days have only been this cheap on a couple of occasions since the start of 2011, and not in three years, according to data compiled by Macro Risk Advisors.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

The $ 928 million center was slated to start construction late last year at a 500 - acre site in the Derrydonnell Forest near a small town called Athenry, but groundbreaking was delayed after complaints about the building were filed to the local council, reported Business Insider.

Horn made a false start, outsourcing customer service to a call center, which left him «in the dark» about whether his customers were being well served, he says.

In response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a living.

Bricklin got together with an old friend, Bob Frankston, who knew more about programming, and the two started a company called Software Arts Inc. (See «Software Arts wrote the first best - seller,» page 71.)

When friends started bombarding her with messages about the colorful drink, Laylah responded by calling it a «Frappajappajooza» — and people believed her.

The news was also starting to leak and reporters were calling about rumors regarding a new spinoff.

Or where you call a call center, and they suddenly tell you something about your own data that you didn't think they knew about, and it really starts off the wrong customer experience.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Ever since Tesla released its second generation Autopilot hardware and started offering an option called «full self - driving capability», there's been some confusion about Tesla's plan for rolling out fully autonomous driving.

His aggravation level seemed to be building throughout the call and started with questions about capex prior to his outburst on volatility.

The debt deal, which came on Friday after about 19 similar summits since the start of the debt crisis (with few results), called for countries that use the euro to allows two European bailout funds to aid European banks directly, rather than make loans to governments to bail out the banks.

His center is making resources for engineers on how to build more ethical products and starting an educational campaign, called «The Truth About Tech,» in 55,000 American schools.

Republican lawmakers, who normally resist regulation of private business, started coming down on the company as early as Sunday, with Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona calling the privacy violations «significant» and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida saying he was «disturbed» by many things about the company.

Some say they're starting to get unsolicited calls from workers inquiring about job opportunities.

FX Empire has an interview with Anton Ivanov about the Company's activity and talks about possible advice to traders, who are already operating on the currency market or just starting to explore the world called Forex.

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.

I'll close this story down with the one I started — the entrepreneur who called me to tell me he was about to be profiled in a major news magazine.

When a few of his colleagues started talking about this new digital currency called «Bitcoin», he dug through some of Satoshi's papers over a weekend.

That's at about the level that certain European countries started getting margin calls.

Trentlage was born in Chicago and began penning jingles as a high school student, starting with one about a fictional company he called Modern Plastic Brooms.