As I mentioned in my blog, Becoming a Dynamic Sales Team, this rise of the empowered customer is forcing sales executives to look for new ways to equip their sales teams and help them stay ahead of the competition.
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Cubist also scaled back to a lone coffee station and water cooler for the sales and marketing group, forcing employees to huddle and mix.
Like most businesses, yoga studios would likely pass the sales tax onto the customer, forcing prices up.
The mighty Wal-Mart Stores showed its mortality Thurday as the retailer's December sales fell short of expectations, forcing it to cut its outlook.
Demand for the portable games console - the PlayStation Vita - has also been weaker than expected, forcing Sony to cut sales forecasts.
The same system that ultimately produced few convictions also blocked tens of thousands of gun sales to people prohibited from buying them, forcing them to get their weapons another way or go without.
These distress sales drive the price of animals down further, forcing pastoralists to sell still more of their herd.
Taxes on real estate sales are way down and crime is up, forcing Oakland to spend more on overtime to keep cops on the street.
By 2003, big drug makers seeking to protect their U.S. sales shut online pharmacies out of the Canadian supply chain, forcing them to seek supplies elsewhere.
The company, which is already the subject of an SEC probe over allegedly forcing wholesalers to take stock in order to boost its apparent sales, said it may be forced to restate prior-year sales and profits.
For years, tax experts and business lobbies have lectured the states that they'd have a better case for forcing out-of-state sellers to collect their taxes if sales taxes weren't such a complicated mess.
Drucker cited the example of a rapidly growing consumer goods business that announced a pending price increase and saw its sales spike by 50% and then abruptly dry up the following year, forcing the firm into bankruptcy.
This low-end user demand is forcing Caterpillar dealers to reduce their inventory levels, which is further impacting sales of the company.
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They chose the shipping address, even though forcing online vendors to collect the tax by definition makes the tax a sales tax, which would normally be collected based on the location of the sale.
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It has also been beset by rising inflation in China, which is forcing the government to continue its monetary tightening policy which is impacting the auto-sales growth.
As was rumored last week, according to TradeTheNews.com, the deterioration of the global economy is forcing the company to cut up to 5, 000 jobs in research and development, marketing, sales, and other areas over the next 18 months, including 1, 400 jobs Thursday.
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