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MWC Slide Mobility Slowed

Last week’s Mobile World Congress (Mobile is Everything [https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/]) gained its now customary wide media coverage. Although this time a little dimmed, as it strangely clashed with a big Social Media Week shindig (Reimagining Human Connectivity [http://socialmediaweek.org/newyork/]) from New York. So I eagerly

Be Better Than Rating Agency One In Three

1 in 3. A ratio with lots of Sales significance. When I first began selling, the winners in the team drummed into me that the minimum success expected is sign-up one in three bids you chase. Superstars do better still. On business telly this week I caught a European VP

Get Considered The Way Kate Winslet Landed Oscar Role

Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs. Not a great flick, but does look slick. Kate Winslet enjoyed award season. Her turn as Apple’s Marketing chief was both Golden Globe and BAFTA winner. Oscar-nominated too. If you’re feeling ballsy, or simply like trying something new a few times, then how

Can Your Persistence Beat 200/1 Odds?

A misfiring water pitch tapped me onto Adam Shaw’s blog the other day. Specifically his recounting of the incredible story of Jack Andraka [https://adamshawbiz.com/2015/11/03/saving-lives/]. Here’s a teenager that, driven by the loss of a loved one, invented an early spot for the

Facebook's Defining Hire Question And Your Sales Career

Facebook broke the internet again this week. Rather than by a cat snap, it was from areveal [http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-favorite-job-interview-question-2016-2] of their “global head of recruiting”. Her candour shared their key interview question, now unsurprisingly widely re-reported; > “On your very best day at work — the day you come

Getting To VITO (2005) Anthony Parinello

Who is your VITO? The person prospectside with the ultimate veto on your proposal. The Very Important Top Officer. They who sit at the summit of the organisational telegraph pole. Even though every vito has their own vito above them. And so starts the first of many contradictions in Tony’

Make Your Message Chime Through Brave New World Rhyme

It’s a classic dystopian novel. Remarkable vision from 1932. Personal helicopters. Everyday supersonic travel. Multi-sense cinema. No parenthood. Human hatcheries. Total genetic engineering. Widespread human clones from ‘budding’. Unbudgable caste assigned upon embryo fertilisation. Unelected Controllers. Worship of yet another made-up deity, like every single one before Him. Individuality

5 Solution Tips From Retail Craft Teapots

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2016/01/teapots-coza.jpg] A year on [http://salespodder.com/how-african-art-helps-your-prospect-visualise/], a chance to see how a craft teapot stall fared. Sales in the tourist months haven’t been too shabby. Yet – seemingly inspired by the local currency tanking – many peers report 25% year-on-year

How Not To Pump Out Your Pitch

So I caught a BBC World Horizons [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n13xtmgl Horizons. Adam Shaw travels the globe to] science half-hour, Water The Liquid Life Saver. The journalist in charge writes an interesting blog [https://adamshawbiz.com/] on his baby. Along with washing machines that use only a

Simple Quote Slide Sophistication

Popping up a slide with a quote is a vexing business for sales presenters. Is the quote actually any good? There’s a quicksand cesspool of such supposed wisdom. Usually ranging from the outright rubbish to the lazily overused. Who in your audience really cares about what some so-called wit