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5 Es of ... Plastic Lawn Provider

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/04/5es-of-plastic-lawn-provider.jpg] You may have read my recent musings on what I consider a great little tactic. Framing yourself by 5 words, all beginning with the same letter. Well. I riffed with a pal of mine, in the midst of beefing up

Selling Water Restrictions

Will Cape Town run dry? As I blog today, Day Zero – when in what could be an unwanted global first the city’s water supply is set to disappear – is a little over two months away. The worst drought since 1904 has come after three years with no rain. Residents

Quest Suffers Fracture At Davos

Another year at the One Percenters Club in Davos, another Richard Quest whiteboard (here’s last year’s flipchart [http://salespodder.com/boston-consulting-ceo-doesnt-know-how-to-write-on-a-flipchart-do-you/] ). He trampolined on the WEF’s pitiful 2018 theme [https://qz.com/1184818/davos-2018-theme-creating-a-shared-future-in-a-fractured-world/] , “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”. Above you can see what

Freedom Figure Fix

I endured once working for a maleficent chief exec. One of the many examples of this unwelcome trait emerged from his views on hidden drivers. He’d encourage all salespeople to mortgage themselves up to the hilt. Whatever house they were thinking of living in, he’d batter them to

Never Be Shameless About From Where An Idea Hails

I caught a South African rolling news show called Tech Report the other day. One segment had a countdown of the presenter’s favourite all-time geek quotes. Here’s her number one; > we’ve always been shameless about stealing great ideas It was attributed to Apple’s Steve Jobs. Stifle

What Would GAFA Do?

So the French courts are busy hunting down evil megalomaniacal firms. The kind that harbour Bond villains. Ones that bully all ends of the marketplace. Ruthlessly choking competition, customers, suppliers and anyone else that dares challenge them. They’ve even coined a new Gallic term [http://qz.com/303947/us-cultural-imperialism-has-a-new-name-gafa/

What The Daily Payment Con Tells You About Good Accounts

> good accounts make good friends So said to me once by an accountant with a wealth of experience. It doesn’t literally mean you’ll be bosom buddies. More that when people both provide their goods and pay for them in a timely manner, everyone works much better and happily

How Does History Guru's Only Law Apply to Your Big Deal?

Niall Ferguson [http://www.niallferguson.com/], of whom I last posted [http://salespodder.com/is-the-west-history/] back in 2011, has another cracking sounding ‘album’ out. A history of the power of networks and lessons for today’s freewheelin’ silicon valley. He hopes that will halt their path to becoming Bond Villains.

Does Your Pitch Thrive Better Than Ariana Huffington's?

So this Thrive app [https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/15380-introducing-the-thrive-app] is on a launch promo [https://venturebeat.com/2018/01/16/arianna-huffingtons-thrive-global-and-samsung-launch-tech-detox-app/] push. It seems to have grown out of the latest attempt to out-Gwyneth Goop, from the Huffington Post founder’s “lifestyle” effort of her own. Here’s the

Remember Perfect Never Arrives

> “We don’t want perfect to be the enemy of the good, is it better than what we’ve got?” So said American Senator Mike Rounds (Rep. for S Dakota) when commenting on the supposed bi-partisan Dreamer Deal for immigrants into the USA, January 2018. Is there anything worse than