His business is thriving, though: Albanians short of cash are desperate to sell things.
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First, black managers will be better able to sell things, from insurance to soap powder, to other blacks.
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Owners realize that music helps to keep customers in a venue for a longer period of time, which means more opportunities to sell things.
Consumers in China and Brazil in particular, the survey notes, more frequently use social networks to sell things, look for jobs and write about products.
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Of course it has to sell things - but it doesn't rely, effectively, on waiting, listening, responding to what audiences want, and then delivering that to them.
Put it another way, it's hard work these days trying to sell things to people they don't strictly need - as any "consumer facing" company will unhappily confirm.
Sadly, the wheeler and dealers of the industry are fully aware of this and therefore create ignorance quite deliberately in order to sell things that people would not buy if they were fully informed.
He opened his gallery 12 years ago, so that he could show all the different strands of his work, and he is keen to emphasize that the notion was not born of a cynical attempt to sell things for more money.
There are two main foes in consumers' ongoing struggle to preserve their online privacy: companies that collect data and track people's online behavior to sell them things, and law enforcement agencies that collect data and track people to investigate crimes.
Brokers are paid a 3% fee to sell these things, which comes out of the profits Bank of America makes by capping the returns.
Perhaps after wading through one too many bleach bypass photos of someone's scooter, a trio of Swedish developers thought an Instagram-like app would be an ideal way to sell such things.
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The company makes no secret that the Kindle Fire is essentially a tool on which the company would like to sell you things, which is why the blatant attempts to point you toward new purchases don't feel so much intrusive as, well, helpful.
In periods when markets everywhere decline, the models can tell everybody to sell the same things at the same time, making market conditions much worse.
There are, however, doubts that Greece can realise its ambitions, partly because the absence of a land registry means that the government may not have clear legal title to all of the things it wants to sell, partly because it is not clear what price they could fetch, and partly because privatisation arouses political opposition at home.
By thinking that the resulting pension pot is ours alone--and that the cash value recorded within it will be enough to keep us in old age--we've ignored the fact that we have to actually invest in those real things we can sell to the next generation.
He admitted in meetings that he couldn't sell things to his own members.
The work by artists such as Kac, who bio-engineers creatures and produced a fluorescent rabbit, is one of the harder things to sell.
Encouraging people to be brave and sell things is important.
Among the discarded things lived a community of discarded people people who had been marginalized, or who had willingly discarded themselves, people who had tired of racing all over the city to sell and buy new things that were destined to go instantly out of date, people who had decided that the things that had been thrown away were the only real riches of the world.
In corporate terms, less capital has to produce more things and sell them at lower margins but at a higher return on assets.
To survive the outbreak and the price crash, pig farmers either had to sell out to bigger companies, hold out hope that things would get better or specialize in up-market cuts of pork.
Moreover, these countries sell similar things to each other: cars made in France are exported to Germany, while German cars go to France, dependent largely upon consumers' differing tastes rather than differences in costs.
Much of what goes on in the City is, at root, not that difficult: the firms that operate in it buy and sell things and hope to make money for their clients and for themselves.
"The trick will be surviving until a big market emerges for all the things these guys want to sell, " says analyst Joanna Makris of the Yankee Group.
"The trick will be surviving until a big market emerges for all the things these guys want to sell, " says Joanna Makris, an analyst with the Yankee Group.
If you have a computer and camera and you like to make things, you can make and sell anything you want.
Blagojevich was arrested last month after federal prosecutors alleged, among other things, that he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat that President-elect Barack Obama vacated.
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