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There’s plenty of chatter right now about grassroot quasi-political movements. Bands of disparate activists who mobilise together to try and face down some seemingly enormous, heinous perceived foe. They prefer to ‘organise’ around cell structures, co-ordinate without appointed leadership, and use snap polls on messaging apps to determine protest

I happened upon a digital agency. On their homepage, I was delighted to find writ large the above ‘problem statement’ teaser. I remember meeting the very first such outfits back in the mid-90s. They were mainly all about the tech. Occasionally you’d meet one that’d come from a

An addition to the recent (especially slide-based) presentation tricks gleaned [http://salespodder.com/show-ads/] from a trade fair I walked around in the heart of Conference England. This time, reading the “selling” language used by the 75 companies showing their wares. Warning. It wasn’t pretty. First, let’s make

Quite the title for a blog post at this moment in Anglo-Continental time, hey. I’d been thinking about this phrase – from purely a Sales perspective – since it first emerged. The new UK Prime Minister of Summer 2019 flaunted it among many a freshly sticky slogan. Even installing it as

This, I learn, is a pergal. The specific name for a retail milk dispensing machine. A milk cooler, you might also say. As wikiquote states; Noun. pergal (plural pergals) (Britain) A box containing a plastic bladder of milk (most commonly with three Imperial gallons of milk), used commercially in a