Seattle, Washington About Blog The Thirsty Dog Blog is your source for
stories about business and the world of consulting in Seattle.
Seattle, Washington About Blog The Thirsty Dog Blog is your source for
stories about business and the world of consulting in Seattle.
Before moving to London he was a macroeconomic analyst in Chicago, where he developed an affinity for data and statistics that he now uses to enrich — and demystify —
stories about the business world.
There might be the reviewers that need to make a living and might be a bit scared of angry fans doing bad
stories about their business when they where being too honest.
Seattle, Washington About Blog The Thirsty Dog Blog is your source for
stories about business and the world of consulting in Seattle.
In the ensuing years I became a journalist, specializing in
stories about business, stock markets or white - collar crime.
Before moving to London he was a macroeconomic analyst in Chicago, where he developed an affinity for data and statistics that he now uses to enrich — and demystify —
stories about the business world.
Listening to
their stories about our business and their lives teaches me about shared values, which form the foundation for a strong corporate culture that motivates people to do their best every day.»
I have heard both wonderful and horrible
stories about business owners who hired a Web site developer from a simple online search.
You often hear
stories about a business owner that remortgaged his or her house and was on the verge of bankruptcy when they hit it big.
«This is
a story about a business executive dealing with serious challenges at work and in his personal life.
You should send press releases featuring interesting news relating to the world around you (not inside information about your company) to editors, writers and anyone in the media who can do
a story about your business.
More often than you would expect, a manager of a private equity fund looking to raise capital tells
us a story about a business that, in the words of the fund manager, does no marketing.
This means that in addition to each piece being a great stand - alone story in itself, your various pieces must work together to tell one larger coherent
story about your business.
Famous in Germany for not talking to the press, the Albrechts have passed their tightlipped ways on to their U.S. business: Trader Joe's and its CEO, Dan Bane, declined repeated requests to speak to Fortune, and the company has never participated in a major
story about its business operations.
Adding complete information about your business helps you tell the best
story about your business.
For example, here's
a story about a business that used the weather as a reason to create a relevant marketing message: I happened to learn that my kids» schools were opening late because of a snowstorm a few weeks ago from the Twitter account of a car wash in town.
The Post-Standard last fall published a series of
stories about businesses that took advantage of the state's Empire Zone tax credit program.
I'm always suspicious when a publication decides to do a «business»
story about the business of pornography, mostly because I assume they're just trying to get attention!
And to an investor focused on value investing in the late 1990s, there were plenty of illogical arguments to be found, whether it was a focus on eyeballs (webpage views) over profits, or any other metric that left one reminded of
the story about a business losing money on every sale, but making it up on volume.
Every accountant has horror
stories about businesses that got careless about records for legitimate expenses such as website or cloud services, or claiming undocumented expenses.
Are my posts telling
a story about my business?
There are many personal
stories about businesses responding to the loss of a standout employee.
New York Times article about business travelers and the need for world travel insurance In an online article from the New York Times, a great
story about business travelers and their need for worldwide travel medical insurance.
Not exact matches
I prefer
business plans that demonstrate great returns for investors on exits of $ 100 million (or thereabouts), to moonshot
stories about billions to be made on some crazy bionic baby food.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote
about a practice in which it claims a growing number of
businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news
stories from publishers as sponsored posts.
Lizzy Okoro Davidson, the founder of Bunch, a magazine highlighting
stories of creative professionals, says she's seen Harris's comments
about Millennials reflected in her own social and
business circles.
It is much more powerful to incorporate mini metrics and statistics along with the
story, versus telling the audience
about your student's three - million - dollar
business.
In between all the
stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent
businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.
One woman who attended a CRAVE buzz party told everyone
about her
business, at that event she gained two wholesale buyers, which led to the news doing a
story on her
business on the morning news the next day!
So I think it's a really tough seat and for me, it's really more
about how you work with your
business partners, how you share the data, how you get on key messages, consistently tell those
stories, and how you put bravery out there and really drive the agenda of the company forward.
The company prints
about a million
business cards a day.It is a similar
story throughout the broad range of others products, including brochures, catalogues and corporate reports.Such growth has not been without its problems.Expansion has meant six complete moves in 10 years and after being at Balcatta just a year, there is a need to move again — to more than double the size of just the print operations to more than 2,000 square metres.
«So in order to stand out, in order to have people share
stories about you and to evangelize for your
business on your behalf, you need to create these exceptional experiences.»
David has a remarkable
story about how his
business came to be and shares his experiences and how his
business is since appearing on Shark Tank.
David has a remarkable
story about how his
business came to be and shares his experiences and how -LSB-...]
He's got a little
story about his pal the ski instructor who knows that the secret to getting a good tip and repeat
business is taking students 10 percent beyond their comfort zone, no more.
Here are some
stories about how these resourceful entrepreneurs used what they had to grow their
business.
The second, which you can read
about in Fortune's latest cover
story on blockchains and big
business, involved tracing Mexican mangoes.
That's why it's especially encouraging for me to occasionally stumble upon a
story worth sharing that suggests there are still people in our
business who actually give a damn
about the things that really matter.
My colleagues and I share a lot of things —
business intel,
stories about our pets and kids, leftover Easter candy — but this query felt infinitely more personal.
«And while this has been a very damaging reputational moment for the company — the dramatic decline in the stock price, the front - page
stories, all kinds of negative press
about the
business and various assertions and attacks — we think the Valeant
business is quite robust.»
Make sure the innovation
story is a
story about your organization, not a
story about YOU and the ONE great idea that launched your
business.
Small -
business owners often spend too much time talking
about the
story behind their product and the difficulties they went through developing their
business rather than homing in on their milestones and achievements.
Lencioni writes these amazing fables — fictional
stories about corporate scenarios that use this really engaging medium to deliver
business advice.
In fact, they work really well in social
stories, but will just annoy people if you're blogging
about your
business and related topics.
In my 2007 book
about Lazard, I tell the
story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard
Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.
Pointing to a recent New York Times
story about the unemployed leveraging their passions into
business plans, Bizbox predicts a coming golden age of entrepreneurship.
Regardless of how elaborate a deal or
business might be, the underlying economics tell the real
story about who is paid, for what, and when.
Thanks to the Facebook - owned platform getting serious
about attracting
businesses, and launching exciting features like live video and Instagram
Stories, a lot of brands are going to start promoting themselves on «the gram.»
She worked on a range of projects including CNBC's Emmy - nominated Special Report
about the financial crisis, Boom, Bust, Blame: The Inside
Story of America's Economic Crisis; CNBC's Marijuana & Money Special Report; and America's Top States for
Business.