Too many may make the cost of the sales effort uneconomic relative to the revenues accrued.
Aspire put a team of 15 on the Georgia Tech sales effort, which also includes Yellow Jacket basketball.
If New Jersey attracts strong demand in its sales effort, it will be a sign that commercial-real-estate values are getting stronger.
For its part, Eos appears to be overhauling its sales effort. (The company denies this.) One quirky promotion promises a free Apple video iPod for purchasing a round-trip flight by August 31.
The sales effort begins in March.
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The sales effort is a way to reduce exposure to some of the high-risk, high-return property funds that got scuffed up during the financial crisis, said Timothy Walsh, director of the New Jersey Division of Investment, which manages the state's pension money.
And, according to fraud charges filed Thursday by the Massachusetts securities regulator, the managing director of the UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) group responsible for auction rate securities in the U.S. began liquidating his own holdings just as that sales effort got off the ground.
In an effort to increase sales to middle-income families, Prudential is experimenting with policies for sale through banks that can be issued more speedily.
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The Chinese government has been pushing for slower real estate construction and slower sales all year in its effort to keep property prices from rising further.
The anti-obesity effort to limit sales of sugary drinks was one of a number of ambitious public-health initiatives Mr. Bloomberg has launched since taking office in 2002.
The defects scandal came on top of disastrous performance last year by its US division, which handed out cheap loans in an effort to boost sales, but then found that many customers were unable to make their repayments.
Make sure your sales funnel is fine-tuned before you launch a content marketing effort so you can turn these potential customers into sales, conversions, or whatever other metric you may be striving for.
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As a testament to this finding, we document the decimation of online credit-card financed counterfeit software sales due to a focused eradication effort.
Disney is also the only major studio not to support an initiative to offer movies in the digital cloud in an effort to boost online sales.
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The company also said on Thursday that it was cutting about 80 jobs, mainly in sales, as part of an effort to automate and streamline the way its daily deals are sourced and distributed.
Catching up with Amazon.com, which has just launched new online bookshop sites for Germany and Britain, will be costly for Bertelsmann but its increased Internet presence is bound to add to the overall marketing effort put into book sales.
So, of the four bestsellers at Kindle on the current list as of the time of me writing it, only 1 is a legitimate book by real authors and it has been attacked by fake reviewers in an effort to reduce its sales so they can increase theirs.
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The hazard here is that GM might be tempted to load up the bank with poor-quality loans to shaky dealers in an effort to pump up vehicles sales, says Sean Egan, managing director of Egan-Jones Ratings.
Put it together and it seems like more effort to plug the dike in sales is needed.
These cuts have come in the form of layoffs, sales of assets and an overall a greater effort by banks to streamline operations.
The announced plan to shut down underperforming stores follows a late-2005 effort to jump start wireless phone sales by dumping Verizon Communications and signing with Sprint Nextel and Cingular .
The effort triggered a 28% increase in sales among small businesses that accept AmEx.
Streamlined Sales Tax Project, a joint state and business effort started in 1999.
Usually, infographics make at least a slight effort to find data to include in their sales pitches.
Executives say the effort helped push Rolls-Royce to record sales.
Whirlpool disclosed a sales and distribution alliance with Chinese retailer Suning in an effort by the world's largest maker of home appliances to increase its small share of the market in China.
What is more, the requirement under present circumstances to meet these obligations lest creditors (sovereign and commercial) refuse to lend further funds is encouraging the continued and probably burgeoning effort to earn hard currency through major arms sales overseas.
Dell's biggest push, going forward, is an effort to move the company past the direct-sales model pioneered by its founder (see " The Second Coming").
An example, cited in the study, is an effort to innovate within processes and technologies related to sales support for example, tracking contacts, managing and converting the sales pipeline, and generating revenue.
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Your job is to spend your effort and part of that extra money to increase the sales.
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