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Sales 'Elf 'n Safety

I received this amongst the usual festive season spam from pals. > A request was made for Christmas decorations in the office, please follow the guidelines below: • Do not bring electrical equipment on site. Any lights or unapproved electrical goods will be confiscated. • Do not stand on chairs or desks or

Where Frugal Innovation Can Improve Your Sales

So I listened recently on a flight to a long podcast from Navi Radjou. I mention it wasn’t a wonderfully entertaining experience with a heavy heart. As Cecil Rhodes famously mused, to be an Englishman is to win the lottery of life. I say this part in jest. Yet

How Message To Stop Breast Cancer Can Improve Your Sales

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/20131119-143801.jpg] UK breast cancer charities are renowned for their sterling work. I noticed with interest their latest awareness campaign. Apparently, an incredible 94% of women do not know the 5 ways to spot breast cancer. So, their latest poster had plastered

Are You Tunnelling Your Benefits Better Than New Tube Or Subway Lines?

Recently I caught an interview with the chairman of Crossrail, Terry Morgan. The entertaining business journo Jeff Randall was clearly excited about his £15bn project that tunnels across London. And it seems, with good reason. Not just because it’ll afford him new travel options from what he described as

A Different Logo Wall Treatment

Pretty much every corporate presentation has a logo wall. You know the kind of thing. Glossy idents of your valued clients plastered all over a blank background projected as big as can be. Well, here’s an ad I found reading away in a reception the other day. Its aim

Check You're Not Seen In As Bad A Light As Your Bank's "Advisers"

I cannot hide it. I hold banksters in utter contempt. Not just down to their casino capitalism and its obvious atrocities. I’m also thinking of my own personal and business banking. I have been ripped off and misled over the past quarter-century so many times. On only one occasion

Do Your Cubicle Walls Inspire?

I remember my first ever cubicle. It was grim. The person next to me was a right muppet too. On my two-foot high blue velvety-clad desk dividing wall I was greeted with posters of such corporate banality I knew my time there had to be short. My next cubicle was

Using Dallas Newspaper JFK Welcome The Day He Was Shot To Question Bid Alternatives

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/welcomemrkennedy.jpg] History can be a baffling arbiter. Especially when ‘written by the winners’. I really struggle with revisionism, and this week I’ve felt bombarded by it. On the 50th anniversary of the US President assassination, documentaries abound. The most entertaining,

Can Sweden's Bechdel Cinema Rating Improve Your Qualification?

Here’s an interesting movement [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/swedish-cinemas-bechdel-test-films-gender-bias] from a Scandinavian film industry. > Now cinemas in Sweden are introducing a new rating to highlight gender bias, or rather the absence of it. To get an A rating, a movie must pass the so-called Bechdel

You Gotta Show A Map

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/20131115-124137.jpg] I always smile when I see a Powerpoint slide make international news. How can we forget Michael Jackson’s strikingvials [http://salespodder.com/jackson-trial-slides/]? Or the embarrasingly amateur American Prism [http://salespodder.com/pitiful-prism-powerpoint/] snooping deck? It was terrific to