Sentences with phrase «years your business gets»

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Small businesses are steadily on the rise, and are projected to only get more popular in the coming years.

Ten years later, as a young executive at a global management consultancy, I got to work in fancy, climate - controlled offices and travel the world in business class.

Over the last few years, business owners have been tightening their belts and getting creative over cost - cutting.

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

The Small Business Administration asked for almost $ 1.1 billion for fiscal year 2013, but don't get too excited.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

At this year's SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin entrepreneur Lyn Graft gives tips on how to get investors and customers excited about your new business.

The program, Woman Entrepreneurs NYC (WE NYC), will roll out over the next three years and is targeted at underserved women, who might otherwise struggle to find ways to get their businesses off the ground.

«While your business likely has major goals to get to in the next six months to two years, don't ignore the little things that make experiences for your customers more awesome in the meantime.

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

It took most of the year, but now I am able to leave the business in the capable hands of my employees and get some balance in my life.

Get your small business, and your life, on track with these resolutions for the coming year.

You want to get to a there, a point in the future (usually three to five years out) at which time your business will have a different set of resources and abilities as well as greater profitability and increased assets.

Two years ago, Star Toilet Paper rolled out a unique business model when it began putting ads on toilet paper that businesses can get for free for their bathroom stalls.

As I have repeatedly said over the years, I do not believe that the overwhelming majority of advisors - be they wirehouse, hybrid, independent or RIA - have gotten into this business because they want to work against their clients.

All these tweaks and improvements are great, but they'll only be of minimal value to you and your business in the coming year if you don't also actually get in the habit of putting out compelling content.

Sylla says this was the moment «IBM got a big dose of shareholder value,» the focus that has transformed American business over the past 40 years.

The six finalists in the running for National Small Business Person of the Year share what they wish they'd known as they were getting started.

«There are times you get numb,» says Gordon J. Vanscoy, whose business, $ 240.1 million Pantherx Specialty Pharmacy (No. 65, with a 5,318.7 percent three - year growth rate), is riding the Affordable Care Act bronco.

Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

Nearly five years after the recession ended, bankers are lending more and businesses say it's easier to get loans.

You're stuck with talking to yourself and what can you say to help get over the year end blues and back to business?

You'd think that, after a few years, it's a time that even a first timer starter - upper would get used to suffering through, but that's not how things work in the business of building new businesses.

Over the years, you've been a vocal advocate for getting Canadians to address various business challenges, including the need to go global and the skills gap affecting the labour force.

General Electric is looking to get out of the railroad business after a hundred years, according to The Wall Street Journal's sources.

Every few years, some interests on the left or right become frustrated that most Americans care deeply about the small - business community — and that concern gets in the way of those interests» policy objectives.

«If your business is going well, that's the time you've got to reinvent it,» says A&W CEO Paul Hollands, a 36 - year company veteran.

As a result of the added marketing, businesses expect to get more leads in the following year.

«I went down to Silicon Valley a number of years ago, and there were places where you just get [hit] with this entrepreneurial energy when you walked in the door,» recalls the business graduate.

After this, I got to work on one of my many online entrepreneurial business ideas that I've been thinking about for years but never taken action on.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

There's No There There Mainly for the sake of my sanity, I had also connected my Bitcoin account to a real bank account (again, it was one from years and several businesses ago), which is the only reason I ever got started with this whole crazy system.

Business and political leaders across the world are getting ready for this year's Davos edition, but the political context in which they will be meeting is completely new.

However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder of Junar, an open data platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.

Some, like Tom Salonek, were just getting started in business 10 years ago.

«They get stronger and stronger by the day, as importers like Constellation Brands and Heineken get savvier,» Harry Schuhmacher, editor and publisher of industry publication Beer Business Daily, told Fortune in an interview earlier this year.

After 43 years in business, grey sweatpants, plaid, and puffy vests remain Roots staples, and still, shoppers can't get enough.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

Attend this year's conference and you'll not only get invaluable networking opportunities with dynamic, inspiring businesswomen — you'll get solutions to some of the biggest issues affecting your business (and yourself as an entrepreneur).

«I was in business for nine years prior to getting financing.

Tim Interesting comments - the miners [and speaking as a miner] have seemed to get it wrong and done so many times over many years resulting in increased cyclic behaviour of their businesses.

«Once your travel budget gets above $ 100,000 per year, it's time to look at what you can do with a travel partner,» he says, noting that small businesses hitting that mark may be able to negotiate lower rates.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

«If cost - sharing subsidy payments are pulled, insurers would still have to provide lower deductible plans to low - income consumers, but they wouldn't get paid the $ 7 billion a year it costs to do that,» Levitt told Business Insider in an email.

Foreign investors who put at least $ 500,000 into a new business can get a U.S. visa under the 20 - year - old Immigrant Investor Program.

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

That was some 30 years ago and I always remember people at the time saying how impressive it was that this young man had somehow gotten a loan, bought a business, and was running it successfully.

And the fact that it takes a little while to get to know how each other works best - that's normal, I've been working with new business relationships for many years.

After years of budget cuts, the U.S. Small Business Administration is finally getting a $ 730 million boost from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

In the 50 years that followed, Xerox was born, a trillion - dollar industry developed around document duplication, every business got a copier (if not two) and home printers became able to reproduce pages.