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Cosmetic Founder's Everyday Words

[www.eveandranshaw-louth.co.uk/] The latest spin on a well trodden business reality TV theme. Running The Shop sees The Boss of a tired, static, failing firm leave their staff in charge for three weeks. Along with thirty grand to make changes. Amid the juicily edited emerging tyrants and tears

The Power Of Instagram's First Ever Pic And Your Mundane Proof

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/05/instagram1stpostandlogodesign.jpg] This image whizzes around the web. The dog belonged to the founder of Instagram. The foot and flip-flop, his girlfriend. ‘Twas the first ever posting by the app. (On the left, his initial logo doodlings.) The pic a touch reminiscent

Out-Standing Meetings

I was talking with a chap about the benefit of quickening meetings by having all participants stand-up during them. He revealed that when he’d worked at Cisco, many such forums were done this way. We swapped other examples. Ones I blogged [http://salespodder.com/stand-up-to-meeting-madness/] about over eight years

Brummie Salesman Wins Battle Of Waterloo

The Legend. Massively outnumbered by Napoleon, Wellington outmanoeuvred The Little Corporal. Glory in a Belgian field which so hugely, thankfully, changed the course of history. I visited this place many years ago. It wasn’t even sign-posted. Nor any landmark visitor centre in sight. It reminded me of wandering onto

Is Your Opener Pitch Unruly?

> What do you do? Such a simple question. One that pretty much kicks-off any brand new discussion you might have. Yet it is a camouflaged assassin. At a highly unsociable hour to start the week, I listened to a radio report on London as a super-growth 44,000 worker-strong

Grand Slam Champ Stan Graphics

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/stanthemanshorts2015-4-3.jpg] A quick presentation slide highlight. We will be sadly robbed of French Open tennis champion Stan Wawrinka’s colourful kit for a while. The Wimbledon dress code is as much a disgraceful blight on global sport in its own archaic

What Train Disruption Notice Teaches Sellers About Obstacle Messaging

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/stationentrance-sign-ios.jpg] This panoramic is from inside a provincial British railway station. In the midst of a Summer storm, signalling had gone to pot. Delays, cancellations and re-routing had taken firm hold. Left-edge, the doorway. Centrally up-top is the small square orange-on-black

Don't Be A Merchant Of Menace

> Merchants of Menace This wonderfully Shakespeare label is coined by the UK’s Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham. His job is to punish cold call boiler rooms that perpetuate the estimated one billion annual nuisance calls to home landlines and personal mobiles. Only two percent of us embattled consumers on

How Springwatch Stickleback Star Spineless Si Should Spur Your Sell

[https://twitter.com/spinelesssimon] In the (worryingly shrinking) moments when it doesn’t go all kiddies-tv, BBC’s Springwatch can be special telly. This year, a star is born in this little stickleback. Thanks to terrific technology, we see him survive the bite of bitterns, ottergeddon [https://twitter.com/hashtag/

Feed Your Idea Squab Crop Milk

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/squabs.jpg] BBC’s Springwatch is certainly not perfect, but it does have merits. Especially when there’s sales steers from the animal kingdom. I’m no twitcher. Yet I am familiar with an expression [http://salespodder.com/ever-seen-a-baby-pigeon/]from our advertising