Low-Hanging Fruit

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Definition of 'Low-Hanging Fruit'

A commonly used metaphor for doing the simplest or easiest work first. In sales, it means a target that is easy to achieve or a problem that is easy to solve. It refers to the sale of consumer products or services that are easier to sell. A low-hanging fruit presents the most obvious opportunities because they are readily achievable and do not require a lot of effort.
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Investopedia explains 'Low-Hanging Fruit'

An example is when sales professionals new to the field tend to seek out the easiest customers to sell to first. These customers are considered "low hanging fruit." A low-hanging fruit is also a strategy a company implements in order to boost sales quickly. However, there are usually only so many low hanging fruits, and once those have been "picked," the company has to put in more effort to achieve results.
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'Low-Hanging Fruit'

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    ... At some point, emerging markets will have picked all of the low hanging fruit that
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  • Long-Term Investments For 2012

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    ... Banks Granted, it's low hanging fruit only because the bar is still set
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    ... How long to you have to get it back? What are your options? Is there any low-hanging
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  • Optimism Already Built Into United Natural Foods

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    ... All in all, there could be as much as 20% improvement just from picking this
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  • American Eagle Outfitters Needs To Tend To Its Nest

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    ... A new CEO is in place now (formerly of Levi's) and there seems to be low-hanging
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  • Pier 1 No Longer A Recovery Story

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    ... That does not make Pier 1 a bad stock from this point on, but it does mean that
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  • Kraft Hopes Two Is Better Than One

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    ... some sort of content that can generate discussion (and trading revenue) and speculating
    on takeovers, restructurings and splits is pretty low-hanging fruit. ...

  • A Lazy Summer Portfolio

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    ... basis, the company has actually beat estimates in all four of its last quarters,
    making the 2010 EPS estimates of $2.55 low hanging fruit (my apologies for the ...

  • Alaska Suffering From Cutbacks

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    ... Another reason might be all the low hanging fruit available to develop in the lower
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  • Lululemon's Growth Moots The Valuation

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    ... There will be a day of reckoning, a day when the growth disappoints and investors
    suddenly realize that the low-hanging fruit has been plucked, but that day isn ...

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