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The Cure

boom boom… If you ignore it, it’ll go away. How many a sales pitch encounters such thinking? When you address the person who neither has the problem nor is touched by it, oftentimes. What about when they feel the problem is mere irritation? One for which a workaround, or

21 Questions

> How do we get to work? When do we get to work? When do we leave work? When do we go on holiday? When do we go home? How do we go home? How do we get wherever we’re going? How do we get back from wherever it

Nowcasting Pipeline Check

Coronavirus medic planners in the UK are currently engaged in nowcasting. This intrigued my sales antennae having first blogged on this back in 2014 [http://salespodder.com/how-nowcasting-can-improve-forecasting/]. The media’s focus is (understandably) the headline figure of daily released fatalities. Yet this tragic toll, is also a misleading stat.

Happy 200th The Lady with The Lamp

Two hundred years ago today, a giant upon who’s shoulders we often gratefully perch was born. Florence Nightingale [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale] was a true trailblazer. To get ‘acknowledged and revered [https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale-1] as the pioneer of modern nursing’ would be

Finding Fresh Fomites

> fomite [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomite] – objects or materials which are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture – from latin ‘fomes’ for touchwood (readily flammable wood) or tinder Don’t touch that handle, rail or spoon. Is there a selling equivalent? Those who spread doom

95pc of Diets Fail

Or do they? But then again, does it really matter? The fact transcends the stat. Hardly any diets generate long-term weight loss. Whether it’s more or less than one in twenty that work pretty irrelevant. Regardless of Atkins, Hay, Keto, Paleo, Dukan, Banting or any many of F-plans. >

X Æ A-12

How to own the internet; lesson ‘a dash twelve’. Although not perhaps as headline-grabbing as last week’s newly arriving little Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas (the third name for whom with its homage to a pair of life-saving doctors left too many a Leftist howling), the latest newborn of gazillionaire tech

The Audacious Goal

There’s been plenty of chatterati blather in England this past month about ‘targets’. Only Germany, it seems, had significant existing infrastructure in place for lab testing. Different countries around Europe over time develop their own scientific specialties it seems. Perfectly understandable when you consider the Continent for a number

Data Scammer Sleuth Candidate Checks

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8246315/Sleuth-turned-tables-lonely-hearts-scammers.html] A later-in-life online dater sadly realised the hard way that not every profile you engage with is genuine. Yet she used this pain to help others avoid what she suffered. With impressive results [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8246315/Sleuth-turned-tables-lonely-hearts-scammers.

Lockdown Tribe & Your Prospect Personalities

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8259295/Are-accepter-sufferer-resister-Poll-reveals-three-different-pandemic-personalities.html] > What’s your lockdown tribe? The British are split into those who accept, suffer or resist. Analysis by Kings College has found that there are three groups who are all dealing with strict social distancing measures differently. Nearing the end