Sentences with phrase «than recommendations of»

Recommendations of agents they've actually used to buy or sell a home are FAR better than recommendations of agents they only know from their book club or softball team.

Nothing sells better than the recommendations of other readers.

But I think Nye should keep his opinion to himself and let people decide on the basis of something other than the recommendation of a «celebrity.»

Not exact matches

This recommendation comes from finance professor Anat Admati, who says: «Economists tend to think that beliefs and behavior are guided by incentives and rational processing of information, but I know that there is more to it than this simple model, and that other disciplines have much to say.

They are reported to prefer and lean toward companies that produce goods and services that have real rather than perceived value, and they more readily rely on the opinions and recommendations of their peers when making a purchasing decision.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

The app's user can set a search for destination and price range, though the company said more than one - fifth of sales are from recommendations generated by its algorithm, not from the price alerts users set to track fares for a particular destination.

According to a Nielsen survey spanning more than 100 countries, 92 percent of people surveyed said they trust the recommendation of a family member or friend over any other marketing channel.

This week, we tallied the performance of our picks, and I'm happy (and relieved) to say that we really were better than average — although we also made a few recommendations that haven't panned out the way we hoped.

Why: A trusted recommendation is more powerful and effective than any type of advertising.

From great online content to endless book recommendations and must - read lists, most of us struggle to fit in all the reading we want to do rather than locate cool stuff to check out.

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

Meanwhile, a wide array of scientists and experts have come to the same recommendation — intense work liberally sprinkled with breaks to increase output — through research rather than athletic metaphors.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

Smart marketers have long understood that word - of - mouth recommendations from consumers — «brand advocacy» — have greater impact on sales than any other source of information.

Rather than pulling a user out of the rabbit hole, the recommendation engine pushes them further in.

This means that peer recommendation or disapproval should influence Millennials» purchasing behavior more than it does that of non-Millennials.

With less than 100 days until the May 9 B.C. Election, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has released its 2017 Provincial Election Platform, which outlines key issues and priorities of the regional business community and makes a series of recommendations to the parties running to form the next Provincial Government.

The new fiduciary standard mandated by the Department of Labor prohibits advisors from making recommendations that will cause compensation for their services to be more than «reasonable.»

Netflix's system for coming up with personalized viewing recommendations helps save more than $ 1 billion a year by reducing the number of subscription cancellations, they said.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

With respect to the Named Executive Officers other than the CEO, the Committee's compensation decisions involve the review of recommendations made by our CEO and Executive Vice President of Human Resources («EVP — HR»).

Any participation by them in the nomination process is considered to be in their capacities as members of the Board and is not considered to be recommendations from security holders who beneficially own more than five percent of the outstanding Shares.

Management provides the Committee with a recommendation concerning the size of the equity awards for the Named Executive Officers other than the CEO.

Powered by the industry's largest network of real - time shipment location data, FourKites uses connections to more than four million GPS devices and a proprietary algorithm to provide precise arrival time predictions and real - time recommendations.

More than 60 % of shareholders of one major energy company recently voted — against management's recommendation — in favor of the company reporting on its climate progress.

Effective January 1, 2011, upon the recommendation of the GNC, the Board increased to $ 25,000 the annual fee paid to the chair of each standing Board committee other than the AEC, which remained at $ 30,000; set at $ 25,000 the annual fee paid to the chairs of the CRC and Risk Committee, which were formed effective January 1, 2011; eliminated the annual stock option grant; and increased the value of the annual stock award to $ 140,000.

They know that a system of paying for transactions, advice in the form of product recommendations, obscure disclosure of costs, and weak reporting benefit the investment industry more than investors.

Further, in an effort to encourage transparency and responsiveness to AGM voting, companies will need to explain what action has been taken to consult with shareholders when more than 20 % of votes have been cast against the board's recommendation.

(e) Not later than 60 days from the date of this order, agencies shall report to the President, through the Director of the National Economic Council, recommendations on agency - specific actions that eliminate barriers to competition, promote greater competition, and improve consumer access to information needed to make informed purchasing decisions.

The study found more than a third of Americans (34 percent)-- and more than half of Millennials — are likely to ask for recommendations for an insurance agent or financial advisor on social media.

Try to think of these recommendations as a loose guide for development, rather than a rigid checklist or dogmatic list of rules.

There it is said that «the collaboration models that the recommendations suggest smell more of a board of company stockholders than a plebiscite.

His recommendation comes after it emerged that the former vice-chancellor of Bath Spa University was handed more than # 800,000 in her final year.

The royal commission, noting that no one seriously defended violence or denied its presence, offered 87 recommendations for control and regulation of the media, but without including any explanation of the phenomenon of increasing violence — other than passing references to economic pressures and competitive necessities.

My recommendation to many clergy (including myself) who become trapped in the role of ministry rather than in fulfilling the vocation of ministry, and hence on their way to any number of destructive mistakes), is to walk away for awhile.

More than 80 % of its recommendations have been implemented.

The Commission shall study the proposal that Congress by statute allocate fixed percentages of radio broadcasting facilities to particular types or kinds of non-profit radio programs, or to persons identified with particular types or kinds of non-profit activities and shall report to Congress, not later than February 1, l935, its recommendations together with the reasons for the same.7.

According to the Netflix gurus, «75 percent of viewer activity is driven by recommendations,» they use a team of «more than 40» freelance TV and movie experts who hand - tag every piece of programming available, and they know everything you do within Netflix.

Erasmus was persuaded to put his recommendations into print, so he set down the Axiomata, among which were the following: «Good Christians... are less shocked by Luther's principles than by the tone of the papal Bull.

He prefaced his memorandum with a recommendation that reform be instituted in the express context of future self - determination and be accompanied by an affirmation of belief in those spiritual values which in India bulk larger than politics.

«I'm perfectly prepared to have the Act amended along the lines of the Select Committee recommendations because I think that it's operating in a slightly more lax way than was intended, but I'm not prepared to abolish it completely.

If you have a look under the food philosophy section of the blog you'll see my recommendations for a blender and a food processor, both of which are amazing and much cheaper than a Vitamix!

Hi Irma, it seems like the varieties we have in Sweden are different (or have different names) than in other parts of the world, so it's difficult to give any recommendations.

And the recent amendment to Codex recommendations reflects evidence that while people with coeliac disease can tolerate a low level of gluten without ill effects, some people are more sensitive and can only safely eat foods with less than 20ppm of gluten.

Most people consume less than half of that recommendation.

A government with vision will embrace that recommendation rather than commission and ignore a succession of reports on issues such as drug patents.

Because we tend to de-emphasize grain intake in our WHFoods recipes and meal plans, and because we generally tend to emphasize intake of low glycemic index foods that have limited to moderate amounts of available carbohydrates, we set a WHFoods recommendation level of 225 grams for total carbohydrate — about 10 % higher than the low end of the range recommended by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in its discussion of Dietary Reference Intakes.

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Typical recommendations are to store and ship in a cool, dry environment with temperatures of less than 27 °C and relative humidity less than 65 %.