BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Hot Button
- a sales or marketing offer that particularly appeals to a buyer
Wiktionary Definition for: Hot Button
- a central issue, concern or characteristic, especially one that motivates people to make a choice
- the principal desire that a salesman needs to "hit" in order to make a sale
Additional Resources
- Patient Protection Still The 'Hot Button' Issue.(Brief Article)
- The Patients' Bill of Rights will be the hot button health care reform issue when Washington lawmakers return later this month for the second session of the 106th Congress, insurance industry and employee benefits groups agree. The question is whe The Patients' Bill...
- Research articles 2000-01-10
- Education becoming hot-button issue in 3-way battle for state Senate seat.(News)
- The campaign to determine the next state senator for Naperville, Aurora and much of the Tri-Cities has been a relatively sleepy affair so far. Sunny Abello of Batavia has run a cautious campaign, parroting state Sen. Chris Lauzen's conservative stands on hot-button issues ...
- Research articles 2000-02-20
- New Chairman of Congressional Energy Committee Copes with `Hot-Button' Issues.
- By Heather Fleming Phillips, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 19--WASHINGTON--From blackouts in California to blowouts on the nation's highways, Billy Tauzin is the man in the middle of it all in Washington. Tauzin, the folksy Republican...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- HFPA talks Hot Button at meeting.(Home Fashions Products Association)(Brief Article)
- NEW YORK -- The Home Fashions Products Association will host a discussion of "Hot Button Industry Issues" on Nov. 16 following its annual membership meeting. Topics to be discussed include the impact of China, the question of new safeguard quotas and...
- Research articles 2005-10-03
- HFPA Talks Hot Button at Meeting (Home Textiles Today)
- New York --The Home Fashions Products Association will host a discussion of "Hot Button Industry Issues" on Nov. 16 following its annual membership meeting. Topics to be discussed include the impact of China, the question of new safeguard quotas and the possibility of new flammability...
- Research articles 2005-10-03
- Two push right button to win new vehicles.(Neighbor)(Mount Prospect/Prospect Heights)
- Byline: Jean Murphy A Mount Prospect car dealership beat the odds recently. Joe Mitchell Buick/GMC, 801 E. Rand Road, had two customers win new 2006 General Motors vehicles in the On-Star "Hot Button" promotional event which ended May 31 - and there were only...
- Research articles 2005-06-17
- Time Warner New York's Hot 'Button' (Multichannel News)
- Among all of the campaigns that are receiving Mark Awards this year, the highest scoring entry was the "My Favorite Button" campaign from Time Warner Cable's New York division. That coveted distinction makes it the winner of the Top of the Among all of the...
- Research articles 2005-07-25
- Indecency to Be Hot Debate Topic at Broadcasters Expo in Las Vegas.
- By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 17--When members of the international broadcasting community gathered in Las Vegas last April for the National Association of Broadcasters' 2003 convention, their industry was largely focused on the United States' ...
- Research articles 2004-04-17
- Associations cite hot issues
- WASHINGTON -- Free trade, product labeling requirements, Medicare benefits and taxes are among the issues at the top of retailers' minds as Congress convenes in this election year. While chains of all stripes share a wide number of concerns, hot-button issues also vary by trade class. For food retailers...
- Research articles 2004-01-26
- Future of Opel is hot topic in Germany
- General Motors Co. has waded directly into Germany's fevered election politics in its effort to secure financial support for its German carmaker, Adam Opel. GM hoped to line up investors for cash-strapped Opel by mid-July. But as sale talks drag on, the carmaker's fate is turning into a hot-button issue...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Southern stores comfortable with 3-button sport coats; upscale retailers hot on item for fall.
- Upscale men's clothing retailers in Southern cities report that the new three-button sport coat silhouette has met with an enthusiastic response from customers. Retailers in cities with customers associated with conservative fashion tastes report successful sales of three-button sport coats. One retailer in Dallas, TX, attributes the acceptance of the...
- Research articles 1994-02-10
- Barneys New York gets it right in its 3-button ad campaign. (three-button suit)
- NEW YORK -- Barney New York's dramatic print advertising campaign that broke in New York last month resulted from Tom Kalenderian's top-to-bottom evaluation of the store's tailored clothing operation and his conclusion that the huge three-button inventory was too hot to hide. With the theme...
- Research articles 1997-10-29
- MAKING A DEAL: STRIKE YIELDS PENSION GAIN; UNION CALLS SETTLEMENT A START; SANDIA'S CONTRIBUTIONS STILL AN ISSUE.(Sandia National Laboratories, Atomic Projects and Production Workers Metal Trades Council)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Pensions were a hot-button issue in negotiating the settlement between striking workers and Sandia National Laboratories officials. Roughly 500 members of the Atomic Projects and Production Workers Metal Trades Council, a gro ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Pensions were a hot-button...
- Research articles 1999-09-20
- Rumblings.(PGA Championship is being held at Oakland Hills Country Club.)(State Representative Leon Drolet is sponsoring bills that ensure free speech at taxpayer-funded sports venues.)(Edsel Ford II, Ford Motor Co. plans to step down as chairman of The S
- Debates will heat up Future Forum meeting Fireworks often conclude events, so it's fitting that debate on hot-button ballot proposals on affirmative action and educational funding will this week close out a Traverse City gathering of business lead Debates will heat up Future...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- Engineering Goes Global.(enormous growth in global outsourcing of engineering services)(Viewpoint essay)
- By Terry Costlow Offshore outsourcing is growing rapidly, putting pressure on U.S. engineers The push to outsource engineering and programming to lower wage countries remains a hot button, but it is rapidly becoming a common ...
- Research articles 2006-11-06
- Calling for Copps.(Michael J. Copps, leading candidtae for Federal Communications Commission seat)(Brief Article)
- Democratic contender for FCC accustomed to battles If Michael J. Copps wins a spot on the FCC, he might need a crash course on the telecommunications industry's many hot-button issues, but at least he's conditioned to taking heat over contenti ...
- Research articles 2001-03-12
- Wired for wireless. (Editor's Note).(Brief Article)
- Wireless. That's the hot button right now in oil heat delivery. Everybody's talking about going wireless. Our cover story this month spotlights one such application, and there were many companies exhibiting wireless technologies at the oil heat shows Wireless. That's the hot button right now in...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Cox tweaks Latin offering.(Cox Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
- BOSTON -- Cable operators and programmers were tutored on hot-button industry issues, ranging from marketing to the Latino community to the pro and cons of video-on-demand, during "master courses" at the Cable & Telecommunications Ass BOSTON -- Cable operators and programmers were tutored on...
- Research articles 2002-07-22
- Congress must act to end tax cheating.(Looking Inside)
- While exporting jobs is now a hot-button issue nationwide and companies are under fire for sending work abroad to boost their bottom line, Americans may find a new federal report even more disturbing. The General Accounting Office, the investigativ While exporting jobs is now...
- Research articles 2004-04-12
- Merrill Lynch rule, other issues to get SEC airing.
- It's time to step back and see where we are Wall Street's top cop is planning an unprecedented roundtable for investment advisers that will address such hot-button topics as who should regulate stockbrokers charging fees instead of commissions It's...
- Research articles 2000-04-10
