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How Top Facebook Scam Can Ease Your Prospect Paranoia

So 2014’s top Facebook scam enticed users to click on a promise to learn which people had viewed their profile. Only to fall victim to malware. Despite claims these are legitimate, “official” apps, this is intel that apparently you cannot possibly have. This criminality prays on the heart’s

What's Your Mona Lisa?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/11/bobkearnsgarage.jpg] My second observation from my festive viewing of the modern windscreen wiper inventor biopic, Flash of Genius. (My first was yesterday’s post). Remember, this is an American tale, so bear with the cheese. Deep in never-ending litigation, our hero

What's Your 'Flash Of Genius' (American For Eureka Moment)?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/11/flashofgeniusfamilycar.jpg] So there’s a 2008 Hollywood biopic about the American lecturer who truly invented the modern day windscreen wiper. It’s called Flash of Genius [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film)]. I caught it for the first

Make A New Year Resolution To Be A Sellerpreneur

There’s a fairly long established disparaging term for those that think they’re an entrepreneur. Yet they never fully become one. They are all talk, no action. Even milling around trendy, supposed “trep” hangouts. But no plunge ever gets taken. > wannapreneur Publications as august as the WSJ have exposed

The Critical Difference Between Dead Or Wounded Deals

I heard an entertaining veteran shopkeeper recently. With a message of particular relevance to looking afresh at your forecast as the new year dawns. Peter Williams just enjoyed another retail success. This time taking one to an IPO. His speciality though appears to be the turnaround. Most famously with Selfridges.

Quarterly Sales Meeting Slide Distraction

Wintering in the colonies means suffering the appalling customer ‘service’ of local tv provider dstv/multichoice. They run plenty of glossy ads promoting their add-on wares. The 30-seconder above was first shown around December 5th. How can you not like an ad that shows a quarterly sales meeting?! It all

Get Your Inspiration Wall Ready For The New Year

I’ve blogged a fair bit on this topic over the years. From the mockery of embarrassment for unworthy American ‘life coaches [http://salespodder.com/dreamboards/]‘ to top-selling musicians [http://salespodder.com/do-your-cubicle-walls-inspire/] in their studio. So I realise how derision can be aimed at inspiration walls. Particularly when they

Quick Magazine Cover Mock-Up Workshop

My presentation post yesterday inspired by Time Magazine’s latest ‘person of the year’ image reminded me of a documentary I saw recently following upmarket London glossy Tatler. Journalist desk spaces abound with mock-up magazine covers. I chuckled at one that was simply a red page, and under the title

Lever Time Magazine Person Of The Year Covers Impact

[http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-fighters-choice/] Time Magazine always garner much publicity around their Person of the Year. And 2014 is no exception. Their choice of everyone that provides aid in the current West African Ebola zone also allows me a quick non-instagrammed presentation post. What struck me about their choice of

From Buffaloes To Leopards

I’ve blogged before on the usefulness of animal analogies (including from a sporting [http://salespodder.com/beavers-foxes-dolphins-owls/]source and philosophically [http://salespodder.com/animal-quote-bandit/]speaking) to evoke the desired traits a winning salesperson must embrace. I recently heard a business owner lament that their staff were being slow, clunky