“Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.” CompanyProductsPercentTwentiesCustomersAdvertisingBrandsThirtyAcquireFortyRevenueExposure Author:Bill Wyman
“The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.” GivingProductsFortuneIllYieldOccupationRevenueMake Out Book:A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth Source: A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth
“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .” YearsRunningMovingNightGivenSportsTelevisionFootballProductsSmartAffairFinancialEntertainmentMagnificentLooking BackMondayRevenueLove AffairReconcileFeesRetainingMonday NightMonday Night Football Author:George Bodenheimer
“I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I look at that and say, "Hey, that's an exciting thing to get behind!" Because they can improve that product. That leaves more upside from an innovation and revenue potential than you're gonna find in a lot of places. So you could say that's a downside, I see that as an opportunity.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksOpportunityBehindsProductsExcitingInnovationPressesImprovementHeyRevenueExciting Things Author:Steve Ballmer
“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.” WayYearsLooksThreeCreativityFiveFiguresProductsPeriodsPerformancesCompetitionCurrentsObviousOne WayCompareFive YearsThree YearsCapabilityRevenuePercentagesAccountingFive Year OldsAxesThree Year Olds Author:John Kao
“Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.” TechnologyProductsCostTraditionalRevenueJeopardize Author:Norman Pearlstine