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85yo Nobel Winner Process Wisdom

[https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nsf-s-ligo-has-detected-gravitational-waves] Gravitational Waves. Who knew they could be so much fun? Einstein predicted them, back in 1916. Then worried that they may never be observed. A concern happily confounded a century on by a Nobel prize winning trio of scientists. It is perhaps

Should You Giphy Up A Six Second Pitch

[https://www.instagram.com/fastcompany/] Well. There’s many questions to consider here. Above is the published mockup US mag front cover, as taken from their instagram. The MOR album shoot portrait is of their founder. (& if you think that’s painful, you should see those of his younger

Slide Background Tabletop Affection

[https://www.instagram.com/ellypear/] A bijou Bristol cafe has aninstagram [https://www.instagram.com/ellypear/] presence in a foodie spirit of the original jennicam. Above is their digital flyer for the new season’s “events menu”. I recognised the background immediately. And applauded its use. For it is the

You Share Popcorn Message Focus?

Adam Sopher quite rightly delights in being a – if not the – pioneer of popcorn’s surprise English resurgence this decade. The revitalised sector, including their part which they term “gourmet popcorn”, is currently taking chunks out of the tired old crisp market. Now a category in its own right, the

How The Experienced Sales Manager Takes Over A New Team (Jeans)

Two similar stories crossed my screens this week about winning ways to take over a new team. Yesterday’s is from the all-conquering Arsenal football club under the early Wenger years. Today’s is from a supposed ‘turnaround’ at denim pioneers Levi’s. So denim sales seriously declined around the

How The Experienced Sales Manager Takes Over A New Team (Football)

Two similar stories crossed my screens this week about winning ways to take over a new team. Today’s is from the all-conquering Arsenal football club under the early Wenger years. Tomorrow’s is from a supposed ‘turnaround’ at denim pioneers Levi’s. Football team owners are forever changing their

Your Career-Killing Hopecast Trap

I recently posted an instagram of a modified slide I showed a while back. The session sought to raise a salesteam’s Forecast accuracy. Early in my career I encountered the term “hopecast”. If your precious spreadsheet was so labelled, jibes and barbs flew your way. It referred to a

How Deal Interruptions Log Can Quicken Success

[http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_94.htm] I came across this time management sheet. I suspect it is not widely used. Yet I feel there might be a little something in this from a selling angle. An interruptions log [http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_94.htm]

Can You Use The Gmail App Pitch?

Here’s a little piece of expensive pitching I just got shown. The latest push in Google’s masterplan to own as much of you as possible. It sees them trying to move their non-Android mobile mail users off the general Apple app and onto their own dedicated one. Why

Show Thrust And Curiosity As Highlighted By This Pair Of Alcohol Shopkeepers

In the world’s eldest industrial city I came across two entertaining pieces of retail sales craft. Or not. Searching out a party drink, I perused first a boutique wine shop. The sole staffer at Connolly’s informed me they were quite the Burgundy specialist. Which seemed all rather convenient,