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A food wholesaler to the pub and restaurant trade hired an English Sales Consultant. They sought more new client acquisition. He decided to bring an “American” touch into the office. An old-school bell. Each time someone landed a new customer, they must ring the bell. No matter what anyone else

Local band [https://oppositetheother.com/] on a city-based radio station (remember them?) being interviewed. Flush with a touch of early success, latest song to plug (vid above). The presenter channelled his inner children’s tv presenter to put the youngsters on the spot; > So, your thirty-second bio…! One of the

[https://www.mojomarket.co.za/] One of my favourite snack stops. As I grabbed an elevenses coffee, there was a German ahead of me. He liked the look of the bagels. Yet the half-dozen or so fillings on offer made from scratch that morning left him hankering after one not

Another year at the One Percenters Club in Davos, another Richard Quest whiteboard (here’s last year’s flipchart [http://salespodder.com/boston-consulting-ceo-doesnt-know-how-to-write-on-a-flipchart-do-you/] ). He trampolined on the WEF’s pitiful 2018 theme [https://qz.com/1184818/davos-2018-theme-creating-a-shared-future-in-a-fractured-world/] , “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”. Above you can see what

I endured once working for a maleficent chief exec. One of the many examples of this unwelcome trait emerged from his views on hidden drivers. He’d encourage all salespeople to mortgage themselves up to the hilt. Whatever house they were thinking of living in, he’d batter them to

I caught a South African rolling news show called Tech Report the other day. One segment had a countdown of the presenter’s favourite all-time geek quotes. Here’s her number one; > we’ve always been shameless about stealing great ideas It was attributed to Apple’s Steve Jobs. Stifle

So the French courts are busy hunting down evil megalomaniacal firms. The kind that harbour Bond villains. Ones that bully all ends of the marketplace. Ruthlessly choking competition, customers, suppliers and anyone else that dares challenge them. They’ve even coined a new Gallic term [http://qz.com/303947/us-cultural-imperialism-has-a-new-name-gafa/