Another strategy: Accelerate any big-ticket business-related purchases into that crucial year to reduce reported income.
That's a good thing, since team officials are growing more leery of participating in the secondary ticket business.
But Big Pharma, rather than riding to the rescue, has largely abandoned antibiotic research, a low-ticket business, for more lucrative pursuits.
In the constantly evolving ticket business, his company has developed an application that lets fans use their smart phones to upgrade their seats right in the middle of the game.
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In the US luxury goods purveyors like Hermes, Tiffany, Coach, Bulgari, getting killed because they do close to 20% of their high ticket business in Japan.
He now wonders if sports teams belong in the secondary ticket market business at all.
Telemarketing is a scripted, single-call-close, almost always targeting a small-ticket, business to consumer (B2C) model.
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Another panelist suggested that Sternlicht and Loeb form a pro-business ticket and make a run for the White House.
Mr Taylor, nicknamed "the Grizz" for his bear-like no-nonsense style, made an unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in the 1996 US presidential election, campaigning on a pro-business ticket.
The new one gives out points based on how much you spend on a ticket, rewarding business passengers who fly coast-to-coast while making the benefits less valuable to passengers who might fly a lot but only bounce from Corpus Christi to Houston.
Of course, the world doesn't need more bad business ideas, and leaving a secure job to start a business is like "buying a lottery ticket" says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies startup failures.
But let's be clear about one thing: The museum business is no ticket to easy street.
Often times, that's cheaper than what it costs to buy a business-class ticket in advance.
Telemarketing is single call, scripted, high pressure, lower ticket sales items, small business to consumer sales.
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Previously, the only way to see the inside of a Cathay Pacific Lounge was by holding a First or Business Class plane ticket.
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Being able to fly point-to-point for the cost of a business-class ticket holds enormous appeal--especially in regions such as the Southeast that are booming with population growth and new businesses.
For example, rudimentary revenue analyses may look at the number of tickets sold and at revenue figures sliced and diced by different business dimensions such as ticket, campaign, or revenue type (advertising, merchandising, concession, etc.), as well as the time dimension required for trending and seasonality analysis.
In the U.S., recent reports showing sagging retail sales and a slump in business orders for big-ticket items have raised concerns about a slowdown.
American Airlines, owned by parent AMR Corporation, has picked up an antitrust battle against Sabre Holdings, a global distribution system that provides flight data to third-party ticket agents and websites, saying its business practices are anti-competitive and not in the interest of the consumer.
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The most recent iteration of the big-ticket package, Oracle's E-Business Suite, is a set of business applications designed to work with a single database.
On his frequent business trips he buys a coach ticket if the flight is shorter than six hours (it no doubt helps that he usually gets upgraded), and he travels on weekends.
It is a discretionary entertainment business competing for fan viewership, ticket sales, and other revenue streams with other sports, movies, HBO, video games, outdoor recreation, Walt Disney World and every other form of entertainment.
For Frankel, offering millions of strangers a front row seat on the often messy and exhausting roller coaster ride that is her life, proved the ticket to building her multi-million dollar business empire.
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Unless you are Toyota, the classic manufacturing business, autos, has been no ticket-to-ride lately.
Unless you are Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ), the classic manufacturing business, autos, has been no ticket-to-ride lately.
Any small business owner knows that loyalty is the golden ticket to sustainability.
But Disney has since sold out of the hockey business, and the Ducks, whose season ticket base has shrunk in recent years, could sure use a basketball partner in the Honda Center.
Amtrak blames the poor economy and reduced business travel for the decline in Acela's ticket sales.
Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin.
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These are big ticket items that are sensitive to credit conditions and indicative of both business activity and consumption.
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