Sentences with phrase «use numbers like»

I have spoken with practitioners who use numbers like 5 % for a conservative portfolio, 6 % for a balanced portfolio and 7 % for an aggressive portfolio.

Does Amazon care how you price your book if you use numbers like that?

Nagourney could have used numbers like these to draw some conclusions, but didn't.

Sewaholic Patterns are designed and produced here in Vancouver... it's a small, independent pattern company and Tasia, the owner, names her patterns with Vancouver streets or neighbourhoods instead of using numbers like the big pattern companies do.

In the climate arena, I think for too long, people have used numbers like «two degrees» or «350» to give a kind of mechanistic determinant to what needs to be done, when, in fact, when you look behind those numbers, it really is much more about choices.

I don't think that every home a Realtor sells is going to be as much as $ 400,000 but the critics will want to use a number like this for major cities.

Not exact matches

I try to use the numbers that I have digitally as a marketing strategy and a promotional tool, so when casting comes down to me and a few other actors, hopefully if I have a big enough digital presence, I can use that to be like, «hey, look at me, I'm also a built - in marketing house.»

McCarthy of WebMetro recommends that, in addition to using a statistics counter like Google Analytics, advertisers should even have a separate phone number attached to their online advertising.

Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

If so compelled, use only a passcode «like» the one you normally use; mix and match the letters, numbers, and symbols — and even then be wary.

This means that while we can certainly use calories as a tool to guide our eating choices, we shouldn't live like Lulu Peters, focusing solely on one number.

In the early days, Hammond said they used their software to «write» about any sport that could be expressed with numbers: baseball, basketball, soccer, and the like.

Regulators also took issue with a number of claims used to market the technology, particularly calling it a «first step in prevention» against diseases like diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer.

Although hackers are unable to steal sensitive data like credit card numbers through the security holes, they could use it to manipulate people's televisions and play offensive videos, install unwanted apps, or suddenly scroll through channels.

Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

Sites like booking.com and expedia.com offer discounts and even free stays once you've used their site a number of times.

This price differential is largely due to a law that forbids firms from calling cellphones like they would a landline — i.e. using an «autodialer» — and which requires an interviewer to punch out each number by hand.

There, AT&T defines it as «information that directly identifies or reasonably can be used to figure out the identity of a customer or user,» like a name, address, phone number, or email address.

Apple shows the tablet in a number of educational use cases, like taking notes and making presentations.

The app lets you earn «Sweatcoins,» or points based on the number of steps you take in a day, which you can then use to buy a limited number of specific goods that Sweatcoin has made available — like a Fitbit tracker, fitness classes, or subscriptions to apps designed to help you eat healthier.

Data like phone numbers and email addresses will be used for targeting, according to the report.

You can use an exercise calculator (here's one I like) to estimate the number of calories you burn from a wide variety of exercises.

I have seen too many overly enthusiastic marketers try to capture audience attention using slightly spammy tactics, like blasting Facebook pages with irrelevant updates, filling Twitter feeds with 24/7 automated tweets, sending automated direct messages, and yes, circulating «X» number of cat memes.

If you're using a tool like Salesforce or Contactually to send out a number of emails at once, be sure to personalize before sending.

You might see some shirtmakers use terms like «yarn number» (referring to the thickness of the yarn) or «ply» (meaning the number of threads comprising the yarn, e.g. «two - ply»).

Using open data from 7,236 cities, researchers looked at factors like affordability, access to jobs, frequency of service, quality, and number of stops.

This information includes your name, email address, school, where you live, pictures, phone number, your likes and dislikes, where you go, who your friends are, how often you use Instagram, and any other personal information we find such as your birthday or who you are chatting with, including in private messages (DMs).»

In that report, you might list all of the variables about target markets, total number of messages sent, the software you used, and analytics like how long it took people to open an email on average.

The US News methodology uses a number of measures — like selectivity, employment rates, and bar passage rate — to rank top law schools, and the weighted average of these scores determines the ranking.

An increasing number of companies want to use drones for things like inspecting rooftops for storm damage.

I was used to pulling all - nighters in insurance, like when the TSX needed numbers the next day, but this was way more involved.

To demonstrate what the VOAL calculation would look like using realistic numbers, let's start with an example from Facebook.

For Twitter, you can use tools like Twitter's advertising analytics platform, closed - loop marketing analytics, as well as educated estimates to determine your Twitter numbers.

The numbers have it: All - day breakfast isn't pulling McDonald's like it used to.

It's a visually lovely story, and looks fairly unique because it does really look like the store design team used it to experiment with a number of ideas.

Ultimate Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of points in those programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.

4 % seems like a fair number to use for understanding where you stand with respect to your retirement odds.

Like with GDP, there are a whole set of problems with using the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy, but it is a reasonable proxy, and perhaps in our case, it is the best measure that can be found.

You can also use tools like call tracking numbers, website URL tracking, and other lead management software to track your marketing sources.

What numbers do you like to use when forecasting returns for stocks and bonds?

As Google has become more serious about handing out penalties and making drastic algorithm changes like the Panda update and the Penguin update that punish sites that publish poor content and use outdated and black hat SEO tactics, a number of websites have been affected.

Like many of the screens, strategies, and portfolios I track and prefer, the High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio uses a small number of historically relevant ideas to create a simple, yet powerful investment plan.

After you've hit the number of rides you need to get your bonus, I'd quit and just use the destination feature to pick someone up along the way to pay for gas money like I do now.

There are a number of strategies you can make use of to find out what your «financial» personality is like, so that you can get out of debt and start learning some responsibility.

Used by companies such as UniCredit, UBS and Santander, Ripple has been increasingly adopted by banks and payment networks as settlement infrastructure technology, with American Banker explaining that «from banks» perspective, distributed ledgers like the Ripple system have a number of advantages over cryptocurrencies like bitcoin,» including price and security.

This can begin with a business literacy program that introduces topics like cash flow and understanding balance sheets and profit and loss statements, all using fictitious numbers.

I believe in order for anyone to unseat Bitcoin from the number 1 position, they will need to be the first to transparently integrate their currency with current forms of payment options -LSB-...] By taking cryptocurrency mainstream, and allowing it to be used like any other form of payment, they can hit a user segment that has largely been untapped by current cryptocurrencies.

A common mistake businesses make with Instagram is to use the same goals they use with their other social media networks, like «we'd like to sell X number of this product.»

At the same time, according to the Electronic Transaction Association a significant number of those that used this type of financing liked the speed of funding, ease of application and the affordability of total loan costs.