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Loosening Those Year-End Purse Strings

Many if not most salesteams face the hectic annual financial year-end rush as the calender year also draws to a close. The stories you can tell as your selling career lengthens. Christmas hamper delivery, doorstepping for the Christmas drinks, ‘preferential’ customer gifts. And of course, the biggie, the now-or-never year-end

Do Your Incentives Corrupt Salespeople?

There’s a big story in the banking sector this week all about sales. Specifically, “serious failings [http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5c944f8e-6249-11e3-bba5-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2nA7szYXp] ” in sales practices. These have led to more multi-million fines and a further plummeting of the industry’s reputation and public standing.

Using Bloomberg's Chart Attack Tactics

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/chartattack1.jpg] If you fancy a quick tutorial with best-practice for how to present using data, then Bloomberg have a daily feature you must look up. Chart Attack [http://search1.bloomberg.com/search/?content_type=video&page=1&template=tv&

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