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[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/04/San-Sebastien-pinchos-bar.jpg] This is the trendiest modern style pinchos bar in the playground old town of San Sebastien. As I was standing at a shelf eating tremendous pinchos, there was a young Spanish lady in front of me at the bar. In

How You Garner Feedback

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/04/La-Republicana-delipart.jpg] [/content/images/wordpress/2015/04/La-Republicana-waitron.jpg] La Republicana is a vibrant bar inside the few blocks of Zaragoza’s central Tubo area. When paying for the first of a few cheeky small glasses of delightful Rioja, I was (as

Cartoon Slide Inspiration Example From Major Jewel Heist

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/04/hattongdn-hole.jpg] I do love a cheeky newsjack. This week London’s Met Police released photos from inside the Hatton Garden Heist. A targeted raid saw robbers spend the long Easter weekend opening a select 72 of 999 safety deposit boxes laden

Discounting = Failure

I was chatting with a business pal about the dreaded discount. Explaining my deep rooted ‘never discount’ policy, I mentioned there were plenty of academic studies into the impact of discounting. One recurring finding being that a buyer fails to value a product bought with a significant price cut. Buying

You Can't Fatten A Pig On Market Day

[http://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/leaving-essays-to-the-last-minute-ruins-students-grades/]] I loathe last minute merchants. I’m not talking online auction or hotel-day-of-arrival chancers. My ire is for those who expect their atrocious time keeping to be my fire to fight. As the old phrase goes; > don’t think your bad planning

Elusive Incumbency Recipe

The tightest UK election perhaps ever looms. I saw the MP for a constituency I know well interviewed on her hustings. She’s held ultra-marginal Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997. She put it down in no small part to “incumbency”. Despite ferocious competition, she believed her response to voters swings it.

Tax Breakdown Donuts & Arcs

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/03/tax2014breakdown-hmrc.jpg] A few presentation ideas from the world of tax. The UK election campaign is well underway. Both main parties seem to dismiss any chance of tax rises. The electorate can’t quite believe them. A few months back, the current

Spotted Your Bid's Core, Tactical, Swing Or Low-Information Voters?

The UK general election no longer exhibits such a stark left-right binary choice. Multi-party politics has somehow taken hold in the very first-past-the-post system specifically designed to avert the supposed euro-chaos thrown up by proportional representation. This reminds me that what we may often judge as a plain go/no-go

Are You Better Off ... Without Politician Maths?

You know the scene. Contract renewal time. Budgets must be re-submitted. Procurement rules demand re-tender. All preferred suppliers invited to bid. Whether incumbent or insurgent, I realise there’s a tactic you can pull from current UK general electioneering to potentially rise above the fray. It’s all about the

Is Your Food Getting Compliments?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/greatoffmenubrekkie.jpg] In an eaterie, (with the above pictured off-menu brekkie of grown-up chuckie eggs and soldiers), I overheard the owner ask one of her waitrons whether a new dish (a three cheese lasagne) had earned any compliments. The waitron wasn’t