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Flower Of Life Product Backdrop Detail

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/coldplay2015cdfront-igcrop400l.jpg] Make mine water of life, thanks. Coldplay. Adept at producing rollicking half-albums. As the joke goes, nobody’s favourite band. Yet an awful many people’s second-favourite. Perennial silver medallists. And hugely successful. So as you see with my instagram

Trident Handout Weapon

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/johnwoodcockmptridentsubcard.jpg] Stop the press. Someone from The Left makes a winning pitch [http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/submarine-shaped-leaflets#.diG7JXdKpP]. Who says bipartisanship is dead? I was delighted to see this deployment by John Woodcock MP [https://twitter.com/JWoodcockMP](for Barrow

Pitch Your Perfect Storm

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/abigail-storm-12xi15.jpg] The British Met Office, for the first time, now name incoming storms. When announced I was a sceptic. They are not an institution I hold in particularly high regard. Are our winters really that terror-strewn? And would it make us

Echeloning Your Diagonals

> Je suis Parisien Business strategy began borrowing heavily from warfare. Thankfully as time ticks, more collaborative frameworks take hold. The latest Paris street terrorist atrocity tragically brought to mind one military tactic that remains a staple of the successful “complex sell”; > diagonal deployment. With present enemies of European freedoms, murderers

Secret Agent Dance Of The Seven Veils To Find Your Prospect Mole

Former MI6 spy, Harry Ferguson, was on the radio. He revealed what breaks agents the most. It is when they persuade someone to do something for them who then ends up in the hottest of water. The example he gave was that he himself could not enter an Iranian nuclear

Best Seller Crime Fiction Pitch

Ian Rankin’s twentieth installment of his detective Rebus series hits number one in the UK charts this week. On radio, I caught his pervasive Edinburgh brogue detail how he introduced each new novel to his publisher before he wrote it. He sent simply; “a 30-word pitch and a title”

What Sales Can Take From PM Cameron's EU Brexit Letter To Tusk

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/deardonald-top.jpg] Two thousand words. Across six pages. Only a main headline with two section titles, one with four subheadings, for breakers. Not the kind of document you often see in selling. Whether sanctioned or suggested. Yet this is an incredibly important

A Supermarket Trick For Your Quotes

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/yellowtags-supermktredwines.jpg] A friend mentioned to me that they were a sucker for the yellow price tags on supermarket shelves. They forever feel drawn to the products they sell. So I checked this out. As you can see in my above pic

Deploy Deadly Owl Strike On Deal Dissent

Comedian Rob Newman coined a delicious concept. In his Entirely Accurate Encyclopedia Of Evolution [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gwnx2] he discussed the genetic belief behind girls predisposed to pink, and boys blue. Stemming from one piece of research which attributes the need for caveman to recognise blue sky

14 Things Customers Do Not Have To Do Before Breakfast

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/davosweftweet-14beforebreakfast.jpg] Much mirth at the expense of Davos this week. Those that run their elitist World Economic Forum talking shop tweeted this promo. It was roundly derided by the web. From jokesters thinking up an extra number fifteen, to those suggesting