I like to spread a certain joy. Salespeople, create your own vibrant workspace. Particularly when you’ve a piece of wall at your disposal. It should be plastered with images and signs that reinforce your pursuit of process and remind you of success. Many a set designer show us the

[http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000468127] CNBC this holiday week show a good feature. They call it The 2016 Playbook. Each sector reporter delivers their snappy top three trends for next year. The first was “fast, fresh and funky food trends to watch in 2016” [http://video.cnbc.com/

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/12/stagsheadspoons.jpg] A festive diversion. Every so often I see a retail sales tactic that has a sibling in our realm. One Cape Town bar, untouched in years, has two sets of drinkers. A few diehard locals mingle with preloading backpackers from

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/12/bridgeofspies-1or5.jpg] Spielberg Cold War drama Bridge Of Spies. Tom Hanks’ insurance lawyer James Donovan becomes hostage exchange negotiator of legend. Here’s three tips gleaned from his approach to trades for us in the solution selling sphere. Salespeople are, in my

[www.eatdirtyburger.com/] Trendy Shoreditch. In need of feed. An artisanal looking small shop, opposite the train station. Next to a bar that impressively sported a sign, “hipsters must be accompanied by a responsible adult”. I saw the server was also the cook. Intrigued, I asked her what the burger

Another year, another submerged part of England. This time the Lake District. Fallout was quick. After 2009 suffered “once-in-100-yr” rains in the region, £38m got spent on new barriers. They were even apparently over-engineered to withstand a water-level rise to 7.2m. Yet walls crumbled when faced with a “country

[http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/29/future-of-work-gig-sharing-economy-juggling-jobs] My snap above quotes Robin Chase. She co-founded Zipcar, her current book Peers Inc at the vanguard of the “sharing” – or the more funky label, “gig” – economy. Marketplaces abound fortaskers and requesters to mingle in the human cloud. Having purchased through

Much media mumbling this week around an algorithm that predicts your partner’s propensity for imminent divorce. You make separate plans. They change once shared passwords. Unsocial business meetings. The list goes on. 42% of marriages currently end in divorce. Is yours next? One supposed sage hit the airwaves on