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Can Constant Upsell Drive Away Business

Cape Town outlet of vida e caffe chain, empty for a reason? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Any food? It’s a transaction nearly everyone there knows. Once you acclimatise to the pumping bass or some of mankind’s eldest tongues being shouted loud loud or the apparent inattention of the assembled baristas,

Objection Masterclass From Former US CIA NSA Chief

Skynews broadcast 6 Jan 2017 from their Washington correspondent Amanda Walker interviewing Gen Michael Hayden. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Her main interviewee was concerned about the then upcoming ‘summit’ between the intelligence agents and incoming President. The sticky issue being Putin hacking the US Elections. Which to all the world seemed like an

Combine Half-Shot Of Mathiness With Two-Parts Agents To Out-Forecast Groupthink Economists

Economists. I’ve had my say on them many, many times over the years. Never listen to them. The collective noun could well be a Peter of economists. They cry wolf over and over again. And when said beast does appear, it hits them before they even knew it. Given

The Money Obsessed Deserve To Fail

Local SA business telly ran a piece with the owner of a recently voted top restaurant. I perked up in a flash. Very much looking forward to it. I’ve always enjoyed the crossover with selling from entrepreneurs as well as retail, especially restaurants. The impact though was so horrifying,

When Your Prospect's a BRAT

I suffered misfortune recently, having to seek sanctuary in the BRAT diet. Bananas Rice Applesauce Toast. An age old soothing for the seriously upset stomach. The idea is that these four widely available foods provide most nutrition with least aggravation to your digestive system. Combined with packets of electrolyte replacement

Tree of the Year Budding Sales Roots

Here’s a fairly random piece of pr from the UK’s Woodland Trust. They now crown an annual top tree. With seemingly little logic,England’s winner for 2016 [https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/tree-of-the-year/england/] was a Sycamore with a part in the Kevin Costner 1991 Robin

How Useful Is Oddball Question About Your Debut Album?

A finding so noteworthy CNN’s Richard Quest deemed it part of his 2016 year’s highlights wrap-up. Job site Glassdoor [https://www.glassdoor.com/press/glassdoor-releases-top-10-oddball-interview-questions-2016/] raked through their forums and gathered the current most eyebrow-raising, so-called oddball interview questions. These are proven catnip for anyone ever having been

12 Words Of The Year For 2017 Sales Deployment

bigly [http://salespodder.com/the-bigly-wonders-of-making-up-your-own-word/] In a world where everything he does is immodestly ‘great’, the American President-elect likes to liberally plaster dollops of folderol (hyperbole, to chucklingly drop a scarce word) across his own achievements. Bigly as his particular superlative of choice has been the subject of much grammar

Deep Impact Ideogram Pitching

Let’s deal with the obvious “twin film” fact first. Armageddon is better. Disaster movies. Lucky that forty years back Irwin Allen raised their game? So I rewatchedDeep Impact. Bruce had his asteroid, Téa her comet. Ellie. Well, E_L_E, in 90s internet-speak. Extinction Level Event. We’re treated

Nuancing Your Bid The Post-Brexit Way

Britons voted to Leave the Euro-supra-state. As I’ve blogged before, into the mix as to why is the power of slogans and your sales pitching. Brexit as a word became a real winner. (Among the many writing on its power, this piece from the Creative Review [https://www.creativereview.