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Seeing Your Sales Grid Of Despair (& Repair)

[http://quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com/] Here’s some wonderful illustrations I came across by way of downtime tabloid reading. The unfortunate author appears to have suffered a relationship breakdown. Hopefully their blog charts their return to form. The above graphic (click to go through to the site) sought to assess the

Do The (Now) 5 Types Of Boredom Mirror Your Best Sales Approach Timing?

So scientists have been keeping themselves busy by studying boredom. Who ever knew there were officially different types? Let alone that a new, fifth type has just got unmasked. The news of this was of only mild downtime interest, until I saw the definitions of all this tedium [http://www.

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

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,