Otherwise, though, sales and marketing can be very challenging. spotty. There's a lot of travel. We certainly spent a lot of time this year traveling to customers, but I wouldn't read anything more into that other than just, you know, travel and overall across the company, accrual of bonuses, which is not always linear every quarter.

Feb 13, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / Frank, other | earnings call 2024-02-13 | transcript 263ac6b7-9358-44bf-ac14-c15c5678e6a3 | chars 32458-32793 | segment 33

Our travel spending has doubled this year, and that is because we see promising opportunities with new and existing customers around every corner, and we're enthusiastic about closing them.

Aug 2, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Scott Bebo, CEO | earnings call 2023-08-02 | transcript 143b5348-e204-4a37-b9ab-a60540f469ad | chars 10035-10224 | segment 10

Also, our travel to customers has snapped back to above pre-COVID levels, such that we have spent nearly as much on travel in the first half of the year as we did in all of 2022. This is a welcome development because we're responding to greater customer interest, which should lead to additional licenses and faster commercialization.

Aug 2, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Frank Lorenzio, CFO | earnings call 2023-08-02 | transcript 143b5348-e204-4a37-b9ab-a60540f469ad | chars 13067-13401 | segment 13

In searching for a metric that can illustrate our activity level better, I found that travel to customers for new projects is up between 450 to 500% over the last three months versus the same period last year.

Feb 15, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Scott Bebo, CEO | earnings call 2023-02-15 | transcript 974fb221-c27a-4065-9971-9bf0bbf89366 | chars 4294-4503 | segment 4

Travel activity up 450 to 500%, I think quarter on quarter. How should we think about what this really means? I mean, is this a sign of activity in earlier stages? Or one of my follow-up questions here will be, I think one of the key things for your story and impact on your stock will be getting somebody over the finish line, getting them to production. That seems like a critical thing. Is this travel activity? Is this more early stage or potentially late stage stuff that could help you get over that finish line?

Feb 15, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Scott, other | earnings call 2023-02-15 | transcript 974fb221-c27a-4065-9971-9bf0bbf89366 | chars 30505-31023 | segment 31

Yeah, I'm sure you won't be surprised that I say it's a mix of both, Richard. No, I will not, Scott. By the way, I just want to be clear. I'm comparing the three months from kind of the beginning of November until now. from last year to this year. And, you know, last year it wasn't really that impacted by COVID. So it's pretty fair comparison. This is normally a time of year with the holidays and everything that you don't see a ton of travel happening, but we are, I mean, we're just, we have lots of irons in the fire and it's a fun kind of exciting atmosphere where we're constantly preparing for the next customer meeting and for the next set of data that we have to do to show to convince them to move in the application area that we'd like them to move in. So yeah, so that's where all that comes from.

Feb 15, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Scott, other | earnings call 2023-02-15 | transcript 974fb221-c27a-4065-9971-9bf0bbf89366 | chars 31024-31835 | segment 31

Customer visits and associated progress and development are accelerating. And with the dip in semiconductor backlog, companies have the capacity and inclination to implement new solutions like MST to add capacity, cut product costs, and achieve competitive advantage. Atomera is perfectly positioned in this environment with a variety of tools to meet their needs.

Nov 9, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Scott Bebo, CEO | earnings call 2022-11-09 | transcript 3530a752-53cf-4511-bc8d-cb20d29923af | chars 15194-15558 | segment 15

For the last two years, we've been held back on both fronts. Today, we can travel freely in the U.S. with only a few restrictions in Europe. So far, travel in Asia has been slower to recover, but our first trips over there have gotten underway this quarter.

Aug 2, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Scott Bebo, CEO | earnings call 2022-08-02 | transcript 4d64beea-eaa1-4b1b-bbe9-2f117b891784 | chars 5100-5357 | segment 5