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We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for 'The Lost Symbol.'
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
For years, we've asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.
I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
If I see one of my sales assistants neglecting someone because he doesn't look like a good client, he's fired immediately.
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.
Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.
If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.
'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
I love that with a lot of my favorite records, I couldn't tell you the sales on them, like Scarface or some of the UGK albums.
We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.
My first job was at a local bakery, and when I graduated from high school, I was promoted from retail sales to cake decorator.
You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.
I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to maximise sales.
Rentals are 10% of the sales of luxury brands globally, and we are able to achieve that in India by experimenting with location.
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
As a kid back home in Texas, I was followed by sales associates in stores and called derogatory names more times than I can count.
eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.
We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.
I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.
There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.
At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.'
For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
If I could inexpensively pick up a killer sales force without a lot of the other things that I don't necessarily need, yeah, I'd be all there.
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
I had a fundamental love of fashion, of products and accessories. I loved the merchandising side of it and understanding how to maximize sales.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.
Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become the preeminent power in the region.
My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.
The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.
My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.
The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.
Sales have never been a source of joy for me in terms of my music. It's really about who's turning up at your shows, what people are saying about it.
I'm a musichead. My favorite Gaga song of all time is 'You & I' - it might not be the popular vote in terms of charts or sales, but it's my favorite.