Sounds like we should be applauding, rather than carping about sales growth, and perhaps looking elsewhere for improvement.
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The story started in reports from structured data about sales and ended in the analysis of unstructured documents.
We do know about sales and shipments of new phones, those figures are collated quite accurately each quarter.
You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions.
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What do you do about sales taxes in states like Pennsylvania, Washington, D.
Smith said the team just started spitballing ideas about games they would like to play without worrying about sales or marketing.
The company also got smarter about sales prospects--first, by demanding that anyone calling on customers, including engineers, had to wear a suit.
His new book is about sales, which sounds like a must purchase.
In my previous Harvard Business Review blog I have written about sales leadership being the toughest of the functional leadership roles.
Slash, no stranger to tech (he was immortalized as a character in the video game Guitar Hero), is optimistic about sales prospects.
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Think about sales and the information we get to interact with prospects.
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In corporate news, Zillow lost 18.1% after the company reported disappointing third-quarter revenue and warned about sales forecasts for the current quarter.
Frequent spenders might want to wear tags in high-end malls that would trigger text messages and videos about sales as they walk the mall.
Still, these facts about sales and use taxes might surprise you.
An employee in an adjacent store in the mall in Phoenix told us she sees plenty of foot traffic in the Microsoft store, but has no idea about sales.
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The event he says is not about sales.
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Ms. Vickery helped Mr. Chakra redesign GreenForest's Web site, and Joe Wallace, who handles sales for IBM's storage business and is based in New Jersey, offered advice to Ms. Grantham and others about sales strategies.
"If we couldn't muster good sales during the holiday season, that doesn't say much good about sales going forward and how that will translate into demand" for store space, said Ryan Severino, a senior economist at Reis.
Browning talked with The Associated Press and other outlets at the start of the show's media days about sales, tailoring German engineered cars for American buyers, growth in sales of diesel-powered vehicles and the possible unionization of the company's U.S. factory in Tennessee.
Growers like Mr. Cheek say there is also reason to be optimistic about sales this year, since there has been some good weather on key tree-buying weekends this month and an apparent fondness among 20-somethings to buy real trees, even if they are table-top size.
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For all the record companies' bleating about lost sales, nobody is about to starve.
There are 57 Tiffany stores in Japan today, accounting for less of its top-line revenue, about 18% of sales, which is now about even with the sales generated by the 45 stores in the rest of Asia and 27 stores in Europe combined, Lakner says.
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Sales at his dealership are down from about 300 cars a month before 2006 to about 100 sales a month now.
But Wall Street isn't so sure about future sales growth, at least in the short term.
To be sure, any prediction about future sales of unannounced products should be viewed with caution.
During Christmas week all retail surveys I read became pessimistic about holiday sales this year.
There is an ongoing debate about the sales tax disparity between brick-and-mortar and online-only merchants.
Yet the two concerns remained cautious about future sales trends, citing weak economic growth and consumer uncertainty.
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