Be careful not to get swayed by sales pitches, though.
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I try out my sales pitches and presentations on her.
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Since its inception, Facebook has delivered two contradictory sales pitches.
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Neither of these sales pitches is challenge free, of course.
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The sales pitches were filled with urgency and emphasized familiarity.
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AS DIFFICULT sales pitches go, this one is hard to beat.
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You're not wasting your time on sales pitches for overpriced investment products.
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New branding options will help external sales pitches and presentations look right.
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But it will take more than sales pitches to solve the problem.
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Other sales pitches deployed during an hour dedicated to ammo were less convincing.
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I'd listened and nodded when friends spouted sales pitches for their favorite products.
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Guests should also be wary of dated rooms and time-share sales pitches.
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Duties typically include making sales pitches, developing client relationships and identifying client needs.
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Secretly, she recorded the sales pitches on an iPhone hidden in her purse.
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So far, White House sales pitches haven't converted skeptical senators to publicly support the bill.
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But some of these resignation videos are barely-disguised sales pitches for a new MLM.
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Many of his early sales pitches were for Popeil products, among them the Pocket Fisherman.
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We do that by analyzing all of the states' sales pitches and weighting our categories accordingly.
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Altogether, those traffickers had 5,000 Facebook friends, who might be exposed to their frequent sales pitches.
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Characters repeat corporate sales pitches and slogans so reflexively that the premise's goofy charm wears thin quickly.
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But this hasn't stopped their adoption by police departments or sales pitches making false claims about accuracy.
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It wasn't always pleasant being on the receiving end of those sales pitches, but they clearly worked.
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And judging by the numbers, these companies' sales pitches have been a wild success for them, especially in 2018.
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The amateur ads that came in were clever, funny, well-produced and fairly effective sales pitches for its cars.
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Adults, who have learned from experience about irresistible sales pitches, can find it hard to make good financial decisions.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Tanium publicly disputed the Journal's characterization of how it presents information to clients during its sales pitches.
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Inside a meeting of elite investors, which mixed in yacht and jet sales pitches with doom-and-gloom recession talk
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Also, they were more likely than general investors to respond to remote sales pitches, including those delivered in television commercials.
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One of Mr. Epstein's sales pitches to his wealthy clients was offering tax advantage strategies that sometimes included charitable giving.
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Expanding his online presence and gathering the contact info of donors will help him expand his basis for future sales pitches.
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Judy Foote, the minister in charge of procurement, said Lockheed Martin could renew its sales pitches during the long-term review.
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The software, which integrates directly into a user's inbox, tracks the rate of opens, clicks, replies and bounces for sales pitches.
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It also means resisting sales pitches to plow insurance proceeds into annuities or other investments that tie up funds perhaps forever.
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Posters and sales pitches for Taco Bell's latest menu additions cover the windows of a store on a busy Manhattan block.
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Ultimately, the two hope to move beyond sales pitches and awkward IT dinners to engage enterprise technology buyers in a new way.
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Some of the sales pitches are compelling: Companies offer to harvest customer data so the restaurant can better track its clientele's needs.
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Like, every time, you have to wonder what Musk is really selling, and as time goes on, those sales pitches become more convoluted.
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The customers who made it through that gauntlet were welcomed to their vacation destinations with long sales pitches for expensive local time-shares.
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For the second story, about cabana décor, many members were dying to have their spaces featured, and lured me inside with sales pitches.
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Other apps have used similar models to juice up sales pitches, advise employees on messaging the boss, or generate context-specific email replies.
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But Christie's went beyond that description in its sales pitches, court papers added, and identified the diamond as having belonged to Shah Jahan.
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Researchers could explore the relationship between marijuana and vulnerable population groups including adolescents and their susceptibility to Juul-like products and sales pitches.
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They also heard Singer make sales pitches to several wealthy parents, promising college admissions or doctored test scores for tens of thousands of dollars.
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According to the Times, NIH officials made sales pitches to industry executives at conventions and held private meetings to sell them on the study.
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The employee planned on using the hundreds of no-shows in sales pitches to restaurants prove that OpenTable is a better product than Reserve.
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Average annual pay: $87,575 What they do: Client services directors handle client relationships, and their responsibilities include making sales pitches and identifying client needs.
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On the expo floor, more than 22014 vendors will employ a slew of tactics to rise above the collective cacophony of cybersecurity sales pitches.
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As such, they tell us more about Trump's mental reasoning than his now-familiar political sales pitches, the talking points he repeats by rote.
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Photo courtesy As a lawyer, Dave's dad sometimes tagged along on sales pitches so stores would not dismiss the teen entrepreneur out of hand.
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Popular influencers are posting meditation shots, product sales pitches, or nudes and pairing them with somber messages about standing with those affected by the wildfires.
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Journalists themselves are awkward so-and-sos who, after a career of listening to sales pitches from public relations people and executives, are deeply cynical.
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Sometimes they're lectures (mostly from startups and startup coaches), and sometimes they're sales pitches for services focused on startups, like banks or rental car companies.
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When Cassius Green first started his new job at a telemarketing call center, he struggled with his sales pitches and was constantly hung up on.
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Love is not dead Amid the broken hearts -- and brazen sales pitches -- some social media users were doing their best to prove that love endures.
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As a result, many TV conversations now focus more on making recommendations than mutual appreciation — effectively replacing vigorous audience debate with spoiler-free sales pitches.
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The big picture: Inhuman algobots make billions trading on millisecond time horizons, while trillions of dollars are invested on the basis of archaic sales pitches.
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Though Wong says his company doesn't hold on to any customer data from private events, it does keep emails from industry shows to send sales pitches.
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And the sales pitches use FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) as a primary tactic: It's like selling life insurance, but only by rubbing your face in it.
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Republicans have increasingly made grievance campaigns against Silicon Valley central to their political appeal, while internet personalities hawking products make similar sales pitches to their audiences.
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Using our tried-and-true , we assign a weight to each category based on how frequently the states cite it in their sales pitches to business.
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According to guides from the marketing services Hubspot and Constant Contact, the most effective newsletters strive to be brief, conversational, and light on the sales pitches.
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Under our tried-and-true methodology, we assign a weight to each category based on how frequently the states use them in their sales pitches to business.
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The audience is Caterpillar's local network of dealers, who inspect the machines for the latest technological innovations to help make their sales pitches to buyers in China.
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You'll be able to apply what you've learned to all sorts of situations, from sales pitches to business presentations, ensuring all your speeches are memorable going forward.
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But their rhetoric failed to match the Chinese president's headline-grabbing speech a year earlier, in part because their sales pitches to investors further muddled the message.
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When I hear these entrepreneurs make their sales pitches, they talk about cost savings and resource-use efficiencies but what many of them are really selling is convenience.
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"Consumers have the right to know if reviewers are providing their own opinions or paid sales pitches," Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection said.
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The bitcoin price slump is leading miners to consider their IPO sales pitches carefully, with many involved expecting them to push the potential of other uses for their chips.
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Privacy versus profitsWhile consumers may not be buying companies&apos sales pitches about the perks of sharing data, advertisers certainly are — and they&aposre paying big bucks for it.
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Jared Kushner -- The White House adviser and presidential son-in-law's family last year used his prominent position to insinuate access in Chinese sales pitches and teased US visas.
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Shellshocked investors will need to scrutinize sales pitches like this and not jump to make purchases in the middle of a major downturn, when they may be most vulnerable.
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Numbers in the 90s can be seen in screaming boldface print on "shelf talkers," those hanging sales pitches that dangle in liquor-store aisles like socks on a clothesline.
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According to Eater Chicago, which first reported the story, the employee intended to use the no-shows in their sales pitches to show OpenTable was a better product than Reserve.
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Five questions assessed how open people were to sales pitches, how interested they were in potentially risky investments, and whether they understood that elderly people are more vulnerable to scams.
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"Calls to the FINRA Securities Helpline for Seniors (HELPS)[here], have exposed troubling scenarios of senior and unsophisticated investors buying into sales pitches for speculative energy- based investments," FINRA said.
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The settlement would end a yearlong investigation by the attorney general's office, which had received dozens of complaints from renters about misleading sales pitches by park operators, the people said.
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In my mind, sales pitches were all about bluster, charm, and manipulation — playing on a customer's subconscious to convince them to do something that was not entirely in their best interests.
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Still, if there's any place for over-the-top sales pitches, it's probably Times Square, which draws 138 million pedestrians each year, according to 2018 figures from the Times Square Alliance.
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As she fielded the phone calls and emails canceling orders that equaled 95 percent of her business, she imagined the sales pitches she could make to people now working from home.
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As she fielded the phone calls and emails canceling orders that equaled 95 percent of her business, she imagined the sales pitches she could make to people now working from home.
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Official Washington professed itself to be aghast at Lewandowski, who did not bother to couch his sales pitches in the Beltway's customary euphemisms: He was what they pretended not to be.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 1980s, certain New York art dealers revved up the hype machine so powerfully that its sheer volume made their sales pitches impossible to ignore.
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Startups have reams of information about how customers are already using their products, so tailoring sales pitches for upgrades is far easier than it would be if salespeople were going in cold.
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Lots of gunslinger sales types would happily sell you complex products with high fees and commissions over steak dinner sales pitches (and ask for more of your net worth than they should).
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Those sales pitches are what CNBC uses to weight the categories in our annual America's Top States for Business study, based on a review of all 50 states' economic development marketing campaigns.
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Many of the 48 firms identified by Reuters regularly cold-call customers on the phone with high-pressure sales pitches, according to regulatory complaints and sanctions against the firms and their brokers.
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Wedged in among the cheerily printed short shorts and assorted oddments of New York Men's Day, there it was, at Sundae School, a year-old brand with the most targeted of sales pitches.
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"When people originally bought timeshares 27 years ago, one of the sales pitches was you could give it to your kids — pass it on down like a suitcase full of money," Weir said.
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"Consumers have the right to know if reviewers are providing their own opinions or paid sales pitches," Jessica Rich, the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a press release.
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Although few immediate orders are expected, aggressive sales pitches have increased the tension going into this week's air show, where airlines will be hoping for updates on Boeing's development plans and Airbus's possible response.
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"With Pushfor, I know that anything I receive is from someone I know and it's either important or useful, whereas many of emails I receive are either marketing promotion or sales pitches," she says.
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But SolarCity will face stiff competition from entrenched players, such as SunPower Corp and First Solar, as it works to win jobs through formal bid processes rather than relying on consumer-oriented sales pitches.
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But we also can't roll over for him, the way we've sometimes done over the last 16 months, chronicling even those speeches and rallies that amounted to sales pitches for his properties and products.
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Nothing's officially underway, but prospective candidates are doing some big-picture planning, using 2018 races to road-test their sales pitches and looking for ways to clean up problematic issues before things get serious.
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The result is that anyone searching for hashtags related to the fires will encounter meditation shots, sales pitches, nudes, and a bevy of attractive photos of influencers alongside posts showing the depth of the devastation.
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You can hear an echo of Mister Softee's ancestors by paging through "Cries of New York" (1808), an anthology of the shouted sales pitches of street vendors: fruit peddlers, knife grinders, chimney sweeps, sand merchants.
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She said afterwards she did not know how much was spent and had learned a lesson, even as she pledged to keep up the sales pitches, the Charleston Post and Courier reported at the time.
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That mismatch has created a confusing system, in which some advisers adhere to a fiduciary standard and many others don't, while clients generally assume they are getting advice when they are really getting sales pitches.
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After all, Streak users want the most accurate information possible, but the public might chafe if it knew just how accurate that data was—and considered what it could be used for besides honing sales pitches.
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"Consumers have the right to know if reviewers are providing their own opinions or paid sales pitches," Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement in the commission's press release.
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Get the lowdown on how to be memorable, engage your audience, incorporate humor, and structure your speech — then apply your new skills to sales pitches, business presentations, and more, engaging your audience no matter the environment.
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Whiteside made his announcement Friday on Snapchat and through a post on The Players' Tribune, a few hours after he met with the Heat and the Dallas Mavericks in New York to hear their sales pitches.
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The sales pitches seeking to separate Cheryl Lankford from her money began during the recession as she struggled to get back on her feet after the death of her husband, an American soldier serving in Iraq.
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Many companies vie to make Super Bowl rings, so Jostens has to deliver sales pitches to the Super Bowl teams each year — even though the company has made rings for 2000 out of the 2600 winners.
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However, because LinkedIn's revenue streams and design restrict typical business forms of communication and facilitate paid ones, most interactions on the platform are low-frequency and one-directional in nature, such as recruitment offers and sales pitches.
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"They're creating a target list, but we're not going after Al Qaeda in Syria," said a former law enforcement official who has observed Palantir's work first-hand as well as the company's sales pitches for predictive policing.
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"We actually document in our research paper that there has been a major transition from more technical white papers to the kind of white papers that look a lot more like sales pitches," Catalini told The Verge.
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Among them are the Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive — which prohibits companies from touting exaggerated environmental claims in their sales pitches — and the Unfair Commercial Practises Directive, both of which apply across the EU, the paper said.
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At that time, when naked hawking to your friends was still considered an etiquette blunder, the sales pitches by Rebecca's mother felt embarrassing — as gaudy and threatening to the social ecosystem as a purple rhinestone daddy longlegs.
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Generally, though, it has been a boon for the advertising world, giving marketers the ability to make sales pitches to you based on your precise moods and interests — derived by your likes, dislikes, clicks and thumb swipes.
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If you have ever been moved to tears by a television commercial, then prepare to be devastated by "Heal the Living," one of the most gorgeous and beautifully acted sales pitches you are ever likely to encounter.
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Employees spend their shifts interrupting strangers with surveys and sales pitches, or fielding calls from irate customers who've just spent fruitless hours troubleshooting on Google and are now ready to yell at the first real human they encounter.
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Presumably someone was making money from this venture — some proto-Trump barking orders from his tax haven — but it certainly didn't seem to be Rebecca's mother, whose sales pitches took on an ever more shrill note of desperation.
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"We see a flux of buyers from people outside of Zhengzhou, especially those from smaller cities in the same province," Xu said, who apologized for his raspy voice, which he said was due to one too many sales pitches.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Nineteen Democratic presidential candidates delivered rapid-fire sales pitches to Iowa party leaders on Sunday, touting their ability to energize voters, win the White House and deliver on longtime party goals such as universal healthcare.
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The aggressive sales pitches - at a time when borrowing costs are set to surge and property prices are likely to fall by 280-220 percent - could push up delinquencies and weigh on the financial sector, bankers and analysts warn.
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"We see a flux of buyers from people outside of Zhengzhou, especially those from smaller cities in the same province," Xu said, who apologised for his raspy voice, which he said was due to one too many sales pitches.
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Such casual sales pitches for lethal merchandise coursed through the carpeted halls of this wealthy Arab city's convention center this week, when more than 1,200 military technology companies and contractors from around the world convened to hawk their wares.
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Microsoft charges top dollar for Windows 10 ($120 or $200, depending on the edition) and now wants to bombard users with sales pitches to boot—without so much as by your leave, let alone the option to turn the nuisance off.
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No real university — as in, accredited institute of higher learning — Trump U would give prospects Trump's take on real estate success, delivered via audiotapes and weekend seminars held at hotels, which acted as sales pitches for programs costing thousands of dollars.
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The national police posted a video to Facebook on Wednesday, in which a Cambodian woman makes a public apology for sullying the "tradition and honour of Cambodian women" by wearing "extremely short and sexy clothes" in her online sales pitches.
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To reach 236 million hard-to-count residents — more than one in four — officials have so thoroughly researched sales pitches that they know that ethnic Vietnamese regard the census as a civic duty more than, say, ethnic Japanese or Chinese do.
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Now that I cover advertising, I'd love to hear the sales pitches these companies are making to venture capitalists to convince them the public is dying for better ways to get rid of old junk — and that they have the solution.
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A race is on to work out how best to collect and use emotions data, be it to improve packaging, displays, music, or the content and timing of sales pitches, says Rana June, chief executive of a firm in New York called Lightwave.
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Twitter also declined to say whether it had told Congress about any sales pitches it may have made to RT. Last month, Twitter briefed congressional investigators on its own investigation of Russia's attempts to use the platform to influence the election. Sen.
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Lester Wunderman, the advertising executive credited with pioneering the hugely successful modern techniques of direct marketing, with sales pitches aimed at targeted prospective customers in their homes and geared to their interests or characteristics, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
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Bruce Bartlett, a scholar who has worked at the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation, said it was becoming the norm in Washington for lobbyists and consultants like Mr. Verdery to vie for nonresident scholar posts to help them burnish sales pitches to corporate clients.
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In some areas with spotty or no service, children do their homework in Wi-Fi-equipped buses or fast-food restaurants, small businesses drive to internet hot spots to send sales pitches and medical records are transported by hand on thumb-drive memory sticks.
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On that topic Facebook gives us a clear steer on the potential risks — last year leaked internal documents suggested the social media giant was touting its ability to crunch usage data to identify feelings of teenage insecurity as a selling point in its ad sales pitches.
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Now Ciccone is retreating from the bill entirely after kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart sent a cease and desist letter complaining that her name was being used without her permission to help sell the legislation, both on the effort's website and in various sales pitches to state lawmakers.
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Duguid's assertions, it said, took aim at practices the TCPA never contemplated: The social media company said it was not randomly calling phone numbers with unsolicited sales pitches but was calling numbers supplied by its users, with their consent, to alert them about potential security breaches.
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As the largest tech convention in the world wraps up today in Las Vegas, thousands of attendees are engaged in one last push to make the most of a hectic week filled with problematic product launches, power outages, and too many sales pitches to count — and they're dead tired.
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The order was made in response to an article published by The New York Times describing how retired players, who stand to receive up to $5 million in the settlement, are being bombarded with sales pitches from companies promising to help retirees fill out the paperwork to file claims.
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In the twenty-first century, when our lives are full of distractions and sales pitches, I think poetry is a vitally rehumanizing force, something that can pull our relationship with language away from the vocabulary of the commercial marketplace and back toward the realm of genuine thought and feeling.
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As first reported by The New York Times, scientists and officials from the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism tried to solicit donations from industry representatives several times throughout 2013 and 2014 for their planned trial, both through sales pitches made at conventions and in more private meetings.
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" Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a nonprofit promoting the public interest in financial markets, put it this way: "Freeing everyday Americans from relentless and usually empty broker sales pitches, [Bogle] enabled tens of millions of people to get the benefit of compound returns while avoiding the tyranny of fees.
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While Frankfurt and Paris in particular have made aggressive sales pitches to business leaders, hoping to attract tens of thousands of workers, Ireland has made some inroads: The British lender Barclays said last week that it was in talks with regulators there to expand the license of its Irish subsidiary.
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People who paid the initial $49 fee to sign up were "bombarded" with sales pitches for membership packages costing thousands of dollars in order to unlock the promised "business opportunity," the agency said; in the end, this opportunity consisted of selling memberships to the very same training program they had just been through.
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Among the most notable: Both companies, like many others in the tech industry, are making investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, by which computer programs attempt to connect data in new ways to provide new kinds of insights and assistance to users, and both frequently cite the importance of AI in their sales pitches to customers.
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The links are often ads for stuff like bedsheets and dental implants that are disguised as news articles — or else barrel-scraping clickbait that tempts the reader toward still more ads — and because the thumbnails and headlines are written by the individual advertisers themselves, they range in caliber from straightforward sales pitches to gross body stuff.
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Ms. Primus's soliciting the woman was brought to the attention of the state Supreme Court's Board of Grievances and Discipline (now the Office of Disciplinary Counsel), which accused her of violating an ethics provision intended to protect unsophisticated plaintiffs from high-pressure sales pitches by lawyers who would benefit if their clients eventually sued and won money damages.
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While many of the candidates and their sales pitches are by now familiar — in some cases painfully so — this will be the debate debut of Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire business mogul and former mayor of New York who has been promoting himself, with the help of his personal fortune, as the one player with "the record & the resources" to topple President Trump.
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A staff of 70 salespeople in bright yellow golf shirts greets prospective customers, and their sales pitches highlight many reasons Chinese are looking to invest abroad: a clean environment (none of China's pollution here); a Western education (a Minnesota boarding school will open a Forest City branch this fall); a hedge against an uncertain future (Malaysia offers long-term visas as well as a path toward citizenship).
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Lod, the first railway hub of 19th-century Palestine, remains a crossroads of modern-day Israel: The Friday morning market is a melting pot of Jewish and Muslim women in head coverings, old Ethiopians in traditional garb, younger ones in jeans, ultra-Orthodox and Mizrahi men shouting barely decipherable sales pitches, all of them easily mixing in the packed passageways, forgiving the occasional bump.
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