Sentences with phrase «trying to get»

I think I've always been good at giving black - and - white feedback, but I'm trying to get better at offering suggestions and minor feedback.

The basic idea behind selling by email is to trade emails with the client, thus creating an online conversation that can then be segued into the face - to - face, phone, or web conference that you're trying to get.

«The idea for Sole Socks came about when we were trying to get that no - sock look.

Are you trying to get funding?

«All of the leagues are trying to get educated on the issues.

«I'm multitasking» is typically a nice way of saying «I'm killing myself trying to get a million things done at the same time.»

Everyone in the segment has been trying to get a piece of this new niche market, and fancy burgers are popping up everywhere.

«At least 50 percent are entrepreneurs specifically trying to get a business off the ground,» says CEO Dave Girouard.

Budman's move is the antithesis of the world of startup hubris, where you begin with trying to get users and burning through venture money.

In deal news, investors are angry with Botox - maker Allergan, and they're trying to get an activist involved to shake it up.

A day later he sent me an email: «While I can't please everybody and you can always find people who will criticize you, I'm passionate about news, and yes, at times I've lost my cool in the context of trying to get things right.

«In the beginning, I was trying to get these other search engines to work with me and nobody would return my calls,» he says.

The affluent are as opinionated than the average consumer, so why drive them away when you're actually trying to get them in the door?

You want to think about what to do in the face of an of these, and if you're trying to get outside funds, having a contingency plan shows that you've considered what to do if things don't go according to plan.

You're trying to get the one thing to be a hit, because entrepreneurs have a lot of failures, and I certainly had a lot of failures,» O'Leary says.

If you catch yourself thinking about writing an expert you are connected with for advice, consider if it'll come off as trying to get something for free.

Otherwise it's far to easy to have all the other dynamics of your personal relationship overwhelm the work you're trying to get done during the day — both for good (in terms of your business) and not - so - good.

However, it's also trying to get money out of the big ad networks, and the nature of this technology means Three is heading for a clash with regulators over net neutrality.

Anyone trying to get an idea off the ground needs to ask two questions: «Why am I doing this?»

TurboTax is a bit intense when trying to get you to upgrade, but it also is a pretty seamless user experience.

The top tip: Nearly three - quarters of respondents suggested travelling the day before a morning meeting instead of trying to get up at the crack of dawn (or in the middle of the night).

One way Greene is trying to get more customers is by forging partnerships with more traditional business consulting companies that recommend the kind of technologies their customers should use.

«As [technology] continues to accelerate and continues to increase, regulators have got to understand what it is that the innovation's coming up with and we're still trying to get educated,» he said.

Because then you'll be flailing around like a Fruit Ninja player trying to get back to your slides.

The European Union is trying to get Apple to pay about $ 15 billion in back taxes, but Apple disputes the finding.

Around the time Bezos launched Amazon, MTV was still suing its former employee, trying to get its domain name back.

«We lost the air conditioner, hot water, and TV, and we also lost the opportunity to dream about what could be as we were too caught up trying to get by,» he writes.

doesn't let people leave without trying to get them back.

As far as where you're going, are you trying to get funding?

This is why we've been so focused on trying to get the price down, trying to make things easy for consumers.

Yet, we resist change because we're always trying to get back to the way things were before, e.g., our heaviest body weight.

And at the GPet Expo, I saw hundreds of companies trying to get Fido to eat their food.

Viacom is trying to get consumers to lobby Dish to continue carrying its content, but Dish CEO Charlie Ergen seems adamant that he wants a much better deal than the one Viacom is currently offering.

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

The result: all those tourists leaving pop cans and popcorn boxes all over the place were inevitably viewed as pains in the neck, as obstacles these workers faced in trying to get the job done.

By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

He noticed that a growing number of cellphone users were trying to get reception inside buildings.

We can also give our support to those small companies that are trying to get a foothold in a very complex business that has a lot of barriers to entry and a slow adoption curve.

There are so many young people racing that have created fancy proposals, who are trying to brand themselves, who are trying to get themselves noticed... it's not always easy.

It's her job to ensure that what is often the most frustrating experience a user has — trying to get answers when something's not working — is among the most delightful.

Nvidia is trying to get ahead of the market with its system for Level 5 autonomy.

The hardest aspect of my job as an executive coach is trying to get CEOs such as William and Rachel to sit still for 20 minutes a day in quiet, contemplative thought.

We're trying to get much more hands - on around people understanding the rules and regulations of their city and their buildings.

Welcome to the maddening reality of being a woman trying to get ahead in business.

Even as China shutters Bitcoin exchanges and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission signals heavier scrutiny of initial coin offerings, clients of trading giant Goldman Sachs are still trying to get in on the cryptocurrency trade.

Look at what you are trying to get across, what you're trying to sell and see how the product or service can best be highlighted in a positive, new, fresh way.

Britton tells Inc.: «You can't just continue to push advertising messages into their faces, trying to get them to buy something, because most young people have adopted media consumption technologies to avoid exactly that.»

After initially pushing short - form video for Facebook Live, the social network is now trying to get publishers to create longer - form, episodic content instead.

She was married and had been trying to get pregnant for a while.

Google is trying to get it right for people who type in questions looking for specific answers.