For a while, DiCostanzo and Sherry sold bikes to their friends, who in
turn sold them to their friends through parties — hardly a sustainable business model.
Dogs are bred to produce puppies which are in
turn sold to pet stores, online or wherever an uneducated buyer may be found.
The firm needs to sell its capabilities to the new arrivals so that they will in
turn sell them to their contacts.
The company then sells to about 250 bottling partners that manufacture, package, merchandise and distribute the final branded beverages to customers and vending partners, who in
turn sell to the consuming masses worldwide.
Not exact matches
Foursquare could potentially
turn Apple Maps into a more social product, one that would likely boost user engagement and be an attractive
selling point
to advertisers.
And simpler games that work well on mobile usually don't require massive budgets and teams of hundreds
to produce; smaller development budgets mean they don't need
to sell millions of copies
to turn a profit, and there's more room for creative risk.
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To identify your ideal marketing mix, find out which media your target audience
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to for information on the type of product or service you
sell.
I changed my per - hour work into monthly contracts and projects —
turning my services into products I could
sell to clients.
AI also developed a financial model
to sustain its well - being programs — a foundation that generates income by
turning Levi's fabric scraps into goods that are
sold locally.
Then, in
turn, users can buy and
sell the cats using the cryptocurrency Ethereum, which means users have
to buy Ethereum in order
to play.
Today, as even super-hot startups forgo IPOs (at least for now), and some public behemoths
turn private, the time has come
to recognize the hugely significant contributions of those corporations that choose not
to sell their stock
to the public.
Then he got arrested a third time after
selling larger quantities of the drug
to a friend who
turned out
to be an informant.
That grew into a business called Vortex Medical Inc., which in
turn was
sold to a public medical device company for $ 55 million in 2012 and was recently featured on the medical TV drama Grey's Anatomy.
Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members
sell products
to their friends and followers; in
turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips
to New York
to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.
In return, those retailers expected products
to turn over quickly and virtually
sell themselves.
As the baby boomers — the oldest of whom will
turn 70 this year — begin
to retire, they often
sell their businesses
to a younger generation that is more diverse than ever before.
Some say one long - term scenario has Canadians making a final toast
to the 200 - year - old brewer, as the Molson and Coors families
turn their back on generations of tradition and
sell out
to one of the giants.
It does not prevent Google users in Spain or elsewhere from reading snippets of the same stories when they look up news in Google search results, where Google stands
to capitalize by
selling ads alongside news stories that
turn up.
The key
to confidence in what you
sell is
to know your weaknesses and
turn them into strengths.
«It
turned out
to be pretty smart,» he says, «because that guy hasn't been able
to sell one of»em.»
As the years went by and his E-business consulting company prospered, Salonek
turned over the role of
selling to hired hands.
Dorsey said Square's own technology has given it an eagle's eye view into its customers» day -
to - day operations and
selling patterns, which in
turn has sparked another business opportunity, in small - business lending.
Mock - up Milk Bones for dogs, almost - Advil medication for headaches, might - be Mars bars for snacks and supposed -
to - be SoftSoap for bathrooms: the store
sells knockoff products for much cheaper than it
sells name brands, earning it a higher profit margin and helping
turn Dollarama into a near $ 3 - billion a year company.
He
turned to best -
selling author, Brian Carter.
That
turned out
to be the wrong angle, and Virgin Cars ended up shutting down just five years later,» Branson says, adding that in retrospect, «the biggest potential for disruption in the automotive industry had nothing
to do with the process of
selling cars, but rather with how cars were powered.»
Another thing that'll
turn off an investor is
to see that the entrepreneur has
sold off the majority of his business before they've even had their first VC round (we all know that VCs are the ones we're supposed
to give up our control
to!).
Dack
sold out in 1948
to AH Marston Corp. of Toronto, which in
turn sold the company
to the prestgious English shoemaker Church & Co. Ltd. in the 1960s.
Instead, the FBI seems
to have
turned to what some call «gray - hat» hackers, who find vulnerabilities and
sell them for exploitation by the authorities.
The thing that'll
turn off an investor quicker than a cold shower is a business that either has a salable product but has made no effort
to sell it, or they've discovered that the market potential for the product is far less than anticipated.
To our credit, two years later we had turned the company around and pulled through all of that trauma and sold the company successfully to Expedia for about $ 700 millio
To our credit, two years later we had
turned the company around and pulled through all of that trauma and
sold the company successfully
to Expedia for about $ 700 millio
to Expedia for about $ 700 million.
With Windows 8 not
selling well, despite the company's claims
to the contrary, and consumers unlikely
to go anywhere near the overpriced Pro, it may not be a smart move
to turn businesses off with high prices.
If most of the dozens of exchanges competing today are just places
to buy and
sell coins, Circle has loftier ambitions: It wants
to eventually help consumers
turn their trading profits into a Tesla, a mortgage, or a portfolio of blue chips.
And it also hints at what could
turn out
to be an important new business for the company —
selling merchandise, such as lunchboxes, backpacks, and action figures, that capitalizes on the popularity of its shows.
Numerous Quebec producers are opposing the federation's rigid rules around production, and have
turned to the black market
to sell their syrup.
When it opened this year in Chicago, for example, it worked with a partner
to turn a Chicago Transit Authority bus into a mobile market
selling organic foods in the city's south and west sides.
Then buying and
selling cars (well before he was old enough
to drive)
turned into buying and
selling a house at age 16.
TechCrunch catches up with the company behind BarMax, which
sells for $ 999.99 in the iPhone App Store and has
sold more than 100 units, enough
to turn a profit.
Throughout Zappos's history, Hsieh has approached management the way Steve Jobs approached product development -; with an uncompromising rigor bordering on insanity — and he has attempted
to turn the humble act of
selling stuff on the Internet into high art.
Other ways you can
turn your passion into money is by
selling or licensing photography through Shutterstock or listening
to new music on Slicethepie.
Netflix and other content services threaten
to turn the TV into simply one screen among many, and premium picture quality — once Sony's bread and butter — is now a
selling point for only a tiny market segment.
Joel Martin, principal of Eight Mile Style Music and co-owner of Eminem's music catalogue, told Advertising Age that he and Eminem had previously
turned down «over 100 deals
to use the song in ads before agreeing
to sell it
to Chrysler.»
But the launch didn't get quite the fanfare the brand had hoped for as many customers
turned to social media
to express disdain for the collection, claiming it was far too similar
to some of the products
sold at Outdoor Voices, an outdoor clothing company based in Austin.
That, in
turn, required a more intensive approach
to selling, says Smit.
That's not
to say that Amazon will suddenly
turn every Whole Foods into a fulfillment center for everything it
sells but it actually does something even better.
Traditionally, P&G's customers have been the retailers that, in
turn,
sell its brands
to consumers.
Selling With a supermajority of iOS apps being offered for free — more than 90 percent, Blau says — companies have
turned en masse
to a business model in which customers pay for extra features.
These days, the game a lot of mercenary entrepreneurs are playing is
to get a product out, get a lot of people using it, get a lot of hype online,
turn that into a lot of hype in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, raise a lot of money and
sell out.
Their company, TekDry,
sells machines that dry electronics in 30 minutes by using tiny silver balls that heat slowly and
turn the liquid water
to vapor.
You may not know that Petty played what
turned out
to be his final shows just last Monday at the Hollywood Bowl,
selling out three shows
to conclude the band's 40th anniversary tour.
After revenues surpassed $ 100 million, the company was
sold to British Telecom in 1985, and its founders
turned their attention
to other ventures, including Corel Systems and Newbridge Networks.