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No Fear For Hunted Swimming World Champ

Team GB just enjoyed their best ever swimming world championship medal haul. Starman Adam Peaty broke a world record and won three Golds. Homeland media coverage is huge. Especially following the revelation from his proud Mother. As a baby he was petrified of the water. He shared what he considered

Speed Is The Enemy Of Truth

Another week, another American police street gun battle, a town in lockdown. In the aftermath of renewed riots in a place called Ferguson, I caught the remarks of Ed Flynn. The Milwaukee chief of police holds clear views on how social media driven misreporting unnecessarily fuels flames of discontent. >

Official: The 5 Small Things That Make Your Prospect Happy

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/dolan5happiness.jpg] Five small things to make your (as a new business hunter) prospect, or (as an account management farmer) customer, happy. How tricky can it be? According to the official UK Govt adviser on happiness (I know…) as listed above, just

Perfect Family Holiday Formula

Silly season PR this year scrapes up an equation for family holiday [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3190252/Fancy-picture-perfect-family-holiday-Newfound-mathematical-formula-takes-seven-factors-account-ensuring-stress-free-memorable-experience-all.html] survival. The hired hand psycho-quack suggests seven variables at play. Combined through various adds, subtracts, multiply, divide and even a squared. Along with recommendations. Like 70% of

The Perils Of Changing Your Pitch

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/08/inc-klout-one-400x271.jpg] Here’s a tasty morsel I caught over the weekend. Inc.com’s instagram posting quoting a 2.0 watcher. Discussing his travails when originally pitching for funds. It struck a toned chord. Many times I’ve had to rein

Cooking Talent Versus Kitchen Karma

Travelling between meetings I heard a restaurateur of renown [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_Café_(London)] answer her most commonly faced question. Ruth Rogers frequently gets asked “what makes a great chef?”. > “It’s not just talent to cook, but ability to work with others, teach

Ghost Velcro Mismanagement

Promoting his part of a series called An Intelligent Person’s Guide To Education , retiring Eton Headmaster (and former pupil) Tony Little did the PR rounds this Summer. As possibly the world’s most famous school, he made a good stab of trying to rebut detractors who deride his institution

Create Your Deal Owning Blend

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/07/timemag-blends-portmanteau.jpg] One for salespeople that like wordplay. Wannabe copywriters or those that feel they can outdo their marketing brethren relish the construct that is aportmanteau [http://salespodder.com/?s=portmanteau]. I note from the recent Time magazine double “answers” issue [http:

Performance Review Scrap

About time. The corporate trend to scrap performance reviews gathered serious momentum this week. Yet another global behemoth chose to get rid of this vile, septic procedure. Now consultant Accenture finally realise they only reward narcissistic self-promoters [http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-brilliant-reason-why-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-companies-is-getting-rid-of-performance-reviews--bkB4iz0IXe] . Compounded by longtime gripes of distraction,

Sales Charter Prospect Rights

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/07/irights-u18-digitalrights.jpg] Here’s a shot I took off a Skynews slot. It’s in reference to a proposed digital charter for children. The one garnering most chatter is up top. An ability to delete your own posted web trail when you