Sentences with phrase «times my clients say»

Your business exists to solve someone's problem, and every time a client says, «I wish you did this,» you get an indicator of how to take your product to the next level.

Many times my clients say that they have learned more than their dog.

I can not tell you the number of times clients say to me how can someone say I did something without something more like DNA or another witness and now I am looking at life in prison.

Remember your reaction the last time a client said, «Stop complaining about what we do with the contracts.

But when was the last time a client said, «Great brief!»

Not exact matches

Having a few clients gives Joanne Sonenshine's consulting group time to focus on their specific needs, but «there is a fear that if one or two go away, we are in a serious financial conundrum,» she says.

Spend time listening to what your loyal customers and clients are saying so that you can consistently perfect what you do.

«While the headline that Anthem is leaving Express Scripts is in of itself not surprising, the timing is highly unexpected,» Evercore ISI analyst Ross Muken said in a client note.

The last time you asked your assistant to make a dinner reservation for you and a client, when you recently dropped off your dry cleaning and asked for extra starch in the collars, when a client was delayed sending in payment and you had to follow up, did you say, «please» as part of your communication?

«Instead of pecking themselves to death trying to figure out how to comply with all the state and federal regulations,» says Breslin, «we help our clients get ahead of the legal issues — such as vacation time, workers compensation and insurance, and they can focus on what they do best.»

But big customers can leech time and attention from other clients and, if they pull out, leave a small business in a rough financial spot, he says: «All your eggs are in one basket.»

Hoffman and other high - ranking officials took turns filling the void, but he says it was «only so long before clients started to feel there was no one giving them full - time attention.»

«We knew it was time to move out,» says Charlton, «when our client calls got interrupted by band saws in the background.»

For example, don't part ways at a time that could have major negative consequences for the client, Elster says.

Nine times out of 10, Knitowski says, those clients wind up paying.

Sepeti says she and Ken built enough of a client base during their part time days to support the business, but they didn't have any money for advertising.

Your reputation for reliability precedes you because you've proven over time that customers, clients and colleagues can trust you to do everything you say you will.

Andrychuk said that «we coach clients to be open and not discriminate» and that after being contacted by The Times, her team updated all their ads to ensure they didn't exclude any age groups.

With the scandal set to hurt profits and as funding costs climb, the debt load will likely increase beyond 5 times Ebitda, Mizuho Securities USA said Thursday in a note to clients, adding its internal credit rating on BRF is now three steps below investment grade.

«The Microsoft [Advertising] guys... arranged meetings with the senior advertiser [clients] long before this decision was made,» said Montgomery, meaning they were hamstrung by the browser division by the time the client meetings arrived.

«There's a lot to work through,» Sweet says, noting that she learned from one employee that when he is sent on sales trips to Texas, he is stopped one out of every two times as he is driving to the client site.

«Being designated a primary dealer by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is consistent with our global strategy of expanding our broker - dealer activities, as we seek to serve our clients with broader execution services and greater market insight and ideas,» Corzine said in a press release statement at the time.

«These [fall] benefit meetings with clients are a time to look at last year's tax return and see what they can do differently with benefits to help next year's taxes,» said John Gugle, CFP and principal at Alpha Financial Advisors.

Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.

On average, it's about seven times more expensive to get a new customer than it is to get a repeat purchase from an existing client, says Alan Middleton, assistant professor of marketing at York University.

One Northwood client, who asked that his name be withheld, says that following the sale of his transportation business in 2003 for between $ 25 million to $ 50 million, he was surprised how complex and time - consuming managing his new wealth was.

iSight said it began notifying clients of the threat in October, and other retailers more recently in order to give them time to track down and remove the malware from their machines before the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping sprees.

Exemptions and payout caps can save an insurer from paying more than it can, Shey says, but a catastrophic event with hundreds of clients filing claims at the same time is worrisome.

Bruno Monteyne, an analyst with Bernstein, said in a note to clients: «Local competition, within 10 to 15 minutes» drive time, remains the key driver of store disposals.

M&A bankers say their clients are asking them to pitch Jeff Bezos on a deal, Financial Times reports.

Cayenne Consulting's Hirai says that his clients generally fall into one of two categories: those intimidated by the process and those who could write the plan themselves but would prefer to spend their time on other priorities.

Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager much needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure shame played a part,» management consultant Peter Sheehan has said.

But, as David says, broaden your horizons on your own time; never turn clients into victims because of your lack of expertise.

LEDs last a very long time, so it's amusing to hear astonished clients say they haven't called an electrician or manager to intervene in three years.

«We're growing because we are responsive and because we are able to build trust with our clients,» Stejskal says of his 12 - full - time employees and hundreds of consultants.

That said, a plan is still a worthwhile investment: in my time advising clients, I find that there are some attributes that separate those that succeed and those that don't, and one is a proper social media marketing plan.

For entrepreneurs whose clients aren't on a repeating business schedule, Calvin Harris Jr., a consultant and CPA in Columbia, Maryland, says simply making an effort to reach out to clients at unusual times can lead to more business.

And I realized a lot of times I would have to apologize to my clients, saying, «We don't actually have as much allocation for you, you wanted to put in $ 20 million but we only have $ 2 million left.»

If you're simply planning on taking a project to please a client, but you know that it's going to hurt your output on other assignments, and you know you're going to wake up every morning uneasy until the project has passed, then this is probably a very good time to say no.

«The client said he gave them a Mexican ID card — but there's people who visit the US all the time who have Mexican IDs.

With Google's all - important search algorithm in a state of permanent improvement — Quipp says it is updated 550 times a year — the SEP team needs to stay on top of all the technical developments and rapidly adjust the company's advice to clients to reflect those changes in the search world.

«I send E-mail to my clients at least 30 times a day,» she says.

«People were focusing more of their time on responding to emails than creating great work for our clients,» says Mroueh.

CME CEO Terry Duffy said in a statement: «At a time when market participants are seeking ways to lower trading costs and manage risk more effectively, this acquisition will allow us to create significant value and efficiencies for our clients globally.

All three said they returned from maternity leave to find they hadn't been promoted (although they claim MoFo nevertheless billed clients for the lawyers» time as if they were more senior).

«One of the client's preoccupations is to avoid the «Times Square effect,»» says Moment's Hans Samuelson, the LAX project manager responsible for co-ordinating the media elements.

Henry Klingeman, Gross» lawyer, likewise said his client «never thought, at the time these things were happening, that he was doing anything illegal.»

«Often times, I see clients who have large pensions become too conservative with their investment portfolio,» says Reston, Va., financial planner Mark Atherton.

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

Milestone: «We only work with select clients we fall in love with — and this year we will fall in love for the 150th time,» Gardner said.