salespodder

salespodder

http://salespodder.com

Musk, He's Poor

That title, it's an anagram. Of skeuomorphs. [As I learnt from behind this paywalled piece.] I read on in part, as a decade back I blogged on the concept of skeuomorphism. With particular reference to built-in internal new product launch familiarity. New to me was the etymology. From 1889 by

Runner Coming Through

In the tragic aftermath of a national mystery with a vanishing mother during a morning river path dog walk later found drowned in N West England, I was glad to learn of the suggested etiquette for male joggers when passing lone female walkers in such locations. From campaigner Jamie Klingler,

The Sales Tip From 84-yr Study Into Happiness

Dr Robert Waldinger is the current custodian of the world's longest-running study into what makes us happy. As director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which has been running for 84 years, the professor of psychiatry at Harvard medical school and a practising psychiatrist has coined a snappy way

The Best Time To Cold Call According To Fitness Science

Only after 11am on Tuesday. Only Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Only between 10-12.30 and 2-4. There's plenty of old adages advising on when best you make a cold call. That's if cold call pickups even happen nowadays. Nuance and niche apply too. Those awkwards to reach are best tried

Releasing Their Stuff

It's difficult to do any absent-minded mini-scrolling these days and not be served up a link on (someone selling themselves for) the practice of mindfulness. One such headline I saw promoted a book called Meditation Illuminated. Certainly outside my usual zone of interest. Yet there was a little selling nugget

Approach Span Platform Fail

I do love the Before/After trope. The sport of golf has plenty of courses of world renown. Right up there, is perhaps the golf course, St Andrews' Old Course. Standing on its small stone bridge at the 18th, the Swilcan Bridge, being the prized bucket-list selfie shot of note.

Latest Video Call Disrupter Use Cases

I wonder if Yep enter the video call market chiefly because they realise how useless Microsoft Teams is for the vast majority of video meetings? I blog here not to endorse this new browser based option. Merely to show the Sales world that if you're using Teams to live video

Sunlight Testing

You've likely heard of a type of these in a roomful of chin stroking execs. The basic premise is that for any behaviour that you're thinking of acting out, how happy would you be for your friends, family or colleagues to find out about it? Also often framed as whether

Your Iteration Number

One of 33 tips offered by an English broadsheet aimed at little changes that could make a big difference to maintaining a healthier start to your year. There's plenty of writings recommending various thresholds you need to pass to achieve something in terms of numbers of attempts. Think 10. Other

Your 4th Plan

"Of the three plans you put in place, it's always the fourth that happens" Experience recently shared discussing Russian mistakes throughout their Ukraine invasion from Maj Gen Tim Cross. Former head of the UK Defence supply chain. The litany of Russian war errors during their criminal invasion of Ukraine are