Sentences with phrase «to spur sales»

It does this to make its own services and devices more attractive, not to spur sales of those e-books.
Whether this will help spur sales remains to be seen, as the plant has only recently switched over to producing 2014 models of the Viper.
The growth of short - term rental opportunities may well spur sales in some areas.
A company lowering the price on anything will certainly spur sales.
The argument for the Kindle Fire is that Amazon wanted to create a great media consumption device that could also spur sales of content like books and music.
Well, since Amazon gets a cut of any transaction that takes place, spurring sales by any means available obviously makes good business sense.
As it is, McMahon said, Cuomo's program promises to promote growth in a way that will increase Syracuse's urban density and spur sales tax growth from greater economic activity.
In similar fashion, SK Hynix said Tuesday that «weak mobile demand» spurred a sales decline in DRAM memory chips in its financial report.
The Federal Reserve's policy errors are now becoming quite apparent, particularly when you look at the major homebuilder stocks, The yield on the 10 - year Treasury breached below 1.80 today, but even lower mortgage rates aren't doing much to spur sales so far this year.
Inasmuch as the Westminster show has great prestige and publicity, wins there spur the sale of victorious breeds.
Early Spurs sales figures for the Bournemouth clash looked strong but they weren't strong enough and still a long way off Spurs» best attendance at Wembley of 85,512 against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League.
We can expect that Nintendo have surprises in store, now needing to slot in a big hitter to spur sales throughout the Christmas period.
Nintendo reacted quickly and dropped the price, which spurred sales and with the help of more software, the unit has been doing fine ever since.
The auto maker also says the Volt spurs sales of other Chevy cars, noting that over the last four months, some 200,000 viewers have clicked from the Volt's website directly to that of the Chevy Cruze.
Whether these inclusions will be enough to spur sales remains to be seen, but barring an HTC - like re-imagining of its smartphone portfolio, the Xperia ZL appears to be the best Sony can offer.
Spurring sales over 2009 was a variety of special editions including the Ralph Gilles - designed VooDoo, 1:33 Edition Viper ACR, and dealer specials like the convertible ACR built for Woodhouse Dodge, the same dealer that campaigns the Viper Competition Coupe in World Challenge.
I've just been writing Book 3, hoping to get more quality content up there and hopefully spur sales that way.
I know for a fact that this move spurred sales because I purchase a pink 3DS for my better half.
Now Apple is pivoting the iPad toward students to help spur sales while adding new capabilities for both students and teachers.
In recent years, skyrocketing residential values spurred sales, which subsequently led to a spike in 1031 activity.
Although they don't have hard data to prove it, the broadcasters strongly believe their shows spur sales.
Realtors express their views on the direction of home prices in 2010; First time home buyers tax credit spurs sales; 56 % of Realtors disapprove of Obama's performance as President Emeryville, CA - December 10, 2009 - HomeGain, the first website to provide free instant home values, today announced the results of its fourth quarter Home Prices Survey of Realtors ® based on the responses of 928 U.S. real estate agents and brokers across the United States.
To spur sales activity, cap rates need to return to the historical 9.0 percent to 10.0 percent range, according to research from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.
The re-introduction of water and dust resistance, as well as expandable storage, have really helped spur the sales of both Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.
These measures have also spurred sales of energy - efficient appliances and encouraged other energy - saving behavior.
In turn, an increase in pet - friendly hotels can represent a valuable opportunity for retailers by spurring sales of pet travel products.
In a related development, Apple has announced a cheaper 8 GB variant of the iPhone 5c to help spur sales in the low - end segment.
«Yet this video got people talking» and spurred sales to increase 700 percent, he said.
Early sales have disappointed, though some key data are expected this month on Regeneron and Sanofi's drug, Praluent, that investors hope could spur sales.
New high - end products like half - million - dollar digital presses are spurring sales.
Cosucra has judged that the current dairy price climate is ideal to spur sales of its Pisane Pea Protein range, which it originally launched on a dairy - replacement platform eight years ago.
So when Fed Is Best frequently promotes eerily similar headlines claiming, «One bottle would have saved my baby» — it seems to make early supplementation innocuous, while deploying a similar tactic used to spur sales of infant formula.
The background music in stores and shopping malls designed to spur sales also spur emissions of greenhouse gases.
While the update is small a larger update with more content is in the works, so hopefully it will spur some sales.
The AWD option shows Ford brass is willing to shake things up in order to spur sales.
Jaguar Land Rover will spend about $ 6 billion in the current financial year on new models and technologies as the luxury carmaker looks to spur sales that grew at a slower pace.
Jaguar Land Rover will spend about $ 6 billion in the current financial year on new models and technologies as the luxury carmaker looks to spur sales that grew at a slower...
These new areas can be good hunting grounds for new products that will spur sales.
A Bargain Booksy feature is a great way to spur sales of your book.
Amazon is pricing its devices to spur sales, and «they don't care that the operating margin is 1 percent or 2 percent,» said Kerry Rice, an analyst at Needham & Co. in San Francisco.
As far as I can tell, the success of my novella has spurred sales of my traditionally published books.
HP, Verizon, and Acer are all offering discounts and price cuts to try to spur sales of android tablets.
There are certain tactics that are often considered by marketing strategists, as well as Amazon buyers — such as downpricing an eBook in order to spur sales that will potentially up the book's exposure in other places on Amazon — but there is no single formula that will guarantee prime placement.
The box office success of Julie & Julia has spurred sales of Julia Child's opus, Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
One thing the class - action lawsuit leaves out of the equation is the rationale behind Amazon's push to keep prices for e-books low, which was similar to the reason Apple tried to keep the price of electronic songs low: namely, an attempt to use those low prices for content to spur sales of the actual money - making element in the market — the hardware.
In addition to that, we have authors who want to use the e-format to spur sales of their print and ebooks.
I listed one of my book for free on KOBO this morning hoping to spur sales of another book.
3 - It will spur sales / royalties for book 1, because they'll need to buy that first to understand the series at all.
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