Sentences with phrase «than an actual sale»

These two trends together means that potential sales via mobile are far greater than actual sales.

Customer service training is pivotal when it comes to selling products and services; often those client - representative interactions hold more value than the actual sale itself.

So you need to buy your own stock at print price direct / wholesale price Other self - publishing companies see this as an opportunity to mark up printing prices (by an average 50 to 150 percent) and make more money from authors than actual sales.

This would make marketing and promotion the true factor involved, rather than actual sales, just as marketing and promotion is the true factor involved in the Oscar race, rather than performance / quality.

Although the iPad remains the best - selling tablet, Apple's share of the tablet market dropped 8.1 points year - over-year during the last quarter — albeit based on shipments rather than actual sales to end users, according to new iDC numbers.

Only Amazon would ask for all of their authors to give up the ability to sell books on other platforms for the chance to be in this exclusive system, especially when a book borrowed by someone on the KU program actually pays less money (sometimes by a lot) than an actual sale.

That number is for downloads — many of which will have been free — rather than actual sales, and yet that's still an average of just 30 downloads per available book a month: 360 a year.

Please note that comics marked with an asterisk have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.

Depending on who you ask, these figures are 1/3 — 2/3 lower than actual sales.

In some cases, they track the number of books shipped from warehouses to retailers, but these numbers often prove higher than actual sales due to returns.

Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.

For the company, things like «channel presence» — meaning, literally, how present its products are in the most direct sales channels to potential customers — are a more important metric than actual sales.

Rents have risen higher than actual sales prices as a percentage.

Not exact matches

Tying the data to actual sales is a better approach than looking at ad performance.

Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.

For example, automate the monthly plan versus actual for total sales and total costs, if that makes things easier, rather than for every line of sales.

While the privately - held family business declined to reveal actual figures for its overseas markets, Russell said that sales in international markets such as Singapore, Japan, United Arab Emirates and parts of Europe currently account for less than 10 percent of the company's total revenue.

Rackham's classic is one of the few sales books based on actual data rather than personal anecdote.

These fluctuations were large relative to actual economic and policy surprises, as the only notable negative piece of news that day was the release of somewhat weaker than expected retail sales data for the United States one hour before the event.

If the set conversion is further from becoming an actual «profit» for the store (i.e. a conversion creates a lead from a visitor, rather than a sale from a lead), you may want to be more certain that one variant is working better than the other.

Actual sales data from the DFW area (NTREIS) shows a 13.6 percent increase in new construction sales for the month of March with average prices that were 3.2 percent lower than last year.

If sales expectations were much higher than the actual amount of work done, the owner may have hired too many employees.

«We had distribution increase last year, and this year is really more rate of sale than it is actual distribution,» he said.

However, the actual sales rate amongst those people is less than 5 %.

Sale of items designed to look like realistic weapons or perceived to be an actual fire are currently prohibited, unless they include colors that are other than black, blue, silver or aluminum or include non-removable orange stripes.

And the value of sales tax exemptions received received by a company are capped and based on the actual expenditures made, rather than on initial estimates, he said.

That wasn't always the case though, as New York's blue sky law was initially weaker than that of many other states, until the New York Supreme Court determined in People v Federated Radio Corporation (1926) that the act's purpose was to «defeat all kinds of fraud in connection with the sale of securities and commodities and to defeat all unsubstantial and visionary schemes in relation thereto whereby the public is fraudulently exploited,» even if the fraud can't be proven to have «originated in any actual evil design or contrivance to perpetrate fraud or injury upon others.»

Things I am sharing with you are actual things that I love, rather than just trying to get you to buy anything and everything on the sale.

The actual sales potential is likely far higher than how many packs were actually sold.

October's 2014 deliveries of 2,959 may have been higher than the actual market due to the stop sale orders issued in September regarding the airbag an emergency brake issues.

Automaker halts sale of eK micro-wagon that boasts fuel figures up to one - tenth better than actual

Internet keyword advertising is offered for non-fiction titles at no cost to the publisher other than the percentage charged for actual sales.

The UK has long experienced a greater level of transparency in terms of actual sales figures than the US market, and several authors have come forward to outline exactly what they've earned from the sales of their books.

In other worlds, the actual sales figures could be vastly different than what the above results show.

«What we've found in general is that the revenue per book from Safari is actually comparable or higher than the revenue of an actual sale.

By claiming lower - than - actual sales, Koretko pocketed an additional $ 125,000 of income.

Most hardware makers shy away from providing actual sales numbers, but some simple math and new information on total Android activations tell us that Google Android tablets are catching up to Apple's iPad (s aapl) on a daily basis quicker than previously believed.

Or, is a sales manager hastily completing a survey every week / month that rewards top - of - mind recall more than actual data?

But I am saying that acquiring «best - selling» status is easier than it might appear and in many cases, might not even relate to actual sales volume.

However, those that purchased the T - Mobile version of the tablet were left out in the cold in terms of updates, as the much lower than expected sales of the Streak 4G forced T - Mobile to abandon the tablet not even six months after launch due to the costs in developing the updates exceeding the actual installed userbase, with the carrier deciding to reduce support to mere maintenance updates and leaving those that did purchase the tablet to fend for themselves in terms of acquiring the expected updates to Android Honeycomb that were long promised by the carrier at the tablet's introduction.

Rather than allowing authors to upload their manuscripts for free then taking a percentage of each sale — which is after the percentage the actual retailer will also take — BookBaby charges a one - time upload fee and then the remaining royalties belong to the author, other than what the catalogs like Amazon or Barnes and Noble charge.

This marks the first time that Amazon took a proactive stance against a state, rather than simply canceling its affiliates program or building an actual physical presence in the state in exchange for a waiver on the sales tax.

Before we got to money, we looked at actual unit sales, which came out to be 61 % digital and 39 % print: A couple things to keep in mind: A lot of the print sales on the right of the graph above are occurring on Amazon (more occur there than any other single source).

I can speak to actual incidents at more than one media - conglomerate publisher — confidentiality requirements keep me from specifying — and some (not all, and quite probably not «routine») Amazon sales are being treated as «deep discount» in royalty accounting.

While it would be uncouth of us to reveal actual sales numbers and we've blurred them out here, we will say that today's top sellers are handily making as much or more than the top selling indies from prior years were.

And (2) the famous 70 - percent royalty an author is paid in this setting by Amazon seems to be figured on the actual price of the sale (in this case, 99 cents) rather than the author's list price ($ 2.99), despite the fact that the author didn't know about the discount that doesn't seem to have been in response to any competitive price pressures.

When actual sales are higher than expected and earned royalties cover the cost of the advance, all further royalties will be paid to you at specified times over the year.

And even when I've worked on major projects for companies like DC and Marvel, on books which have been in major bookstores outside comic shops, and with major authors, the Bookscan numbers came in at less than 10 % of my actual sales.

I am someone who receives the sales numbers for our titles directly from Amazon and I look at them every week; and, I agree that the actual sales numbers are much LOWER than anyone is pretending to have achieved.

To put it another way, my considerable experience with the relationship between Kindle Store sales rankings and actual units sold says that there are fewer than a handful of all Kindle blogs that are currently averaging more than 1 or 2 sales per day.