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Weird Persuasion

Taking Sales pitch tips from electioneering feels fraught with hazards. Take the Democrat Party candidate in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton and her minders thought they'd gain from labelling their opponent's supporters 'deplorables'. See how that turned out. The same party eight years on, mid-way through 2024 suddenly

Write It Out For Me

"When I ask them to write down their sales process, they can't do it." A fascinating conversation with a former business software sales leader turned later-life entrepreneurial NED. Who with me was pushing at such an open door, the hinges are soakingly oiled and there's a big flashing 'please enter'

National Convention 24s

These quadrennial American party conferences can be quite the timestamp. Showing where we're at with the mass glitzy presentation. They always seemed to me following on behind the latest big arena pop extravaganza staging. We're a long way on from a simple lectern on raised platform in front of tall

Dodgy Round Trips

Well. The conspiracists are having a field day. At the expense of family tragedies. Yet the coincidences are hard to ignore. Connected fatalities within the space of a shocking few hours. A jogger killed by a hit and run in Cambridgeshire. A luxury yacht sunk by freak 5am tornado-cum-water-spout or

What To Pay Out On?

"You've done your job, they should pay you the commission." These were the words to me of an experienced fellow rep in my first ever Enterprise solution sales team. I'd been ecstatic to win a lovely deal. Only for the conglomerate corporate HQ of the subsidiary client to cancel it,

Podcast for the Mind and Soul

Almost twenty years ago I coined the nom de guerre, salespodder. Since then, it's mainly been a nom de plume, for this very blog. Back then blogging and, following on just a little behind, podcasting were both pre-mainstream. Whereas the former - apart from here, Sales Winners! - has diverged

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an all-time classic in diagrammatic

Rostrum to State Room Week's Trio of Remote Work Zoomscapes

Slava Ukraini. In the video address above following their incursion to capture a thousand square kms of invader turf, Zelensky tells his fellow countryfolk, and the world, that 'the war is coming home to Russia'. You suspect his desk is at the window as the daylighting looks decent. In footage

△ Beats Z

Very interesting segments of this video showing two parts: One being the commonly found present White Triangle + Number (likely Btln/Cpn) used in units in the Zapo region: https://t.co/2i2Selp1BH pic.twitter.com/CVk9DOjWw5 — poe (@poetaetrr) August 27, 2023 I just read an encouraging London broadsheet assessment; The

Olympian World Map

It’s a map!! #ParisOlympics #ClosingCeremony pic.twitter.com/a1zc8tw0uH — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 11, 2024 Catch the ponderous, overlong, disjointed and inferior sound quality of this year's Olympic closing ceremony. There were thankfully the odd decent moment or two. Yet too few and far between to justify three