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Commission Pre-Spent Picture

A quick note from the Beeb’s gripping documentary on a Welsh call centre. When running a ‘masterclass’ training session, Manager Dwayne [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018vlpy/profiles/dwayne-batchelor] pushes his charges to have a visual in front of them about what they’d spend their commission on.

If Even The Best Commentator Has An Ever-Present 'Musts' List...

Yes, another ‘sport and selling’ post inspired by the wonder that is cricket. If the five-day battles leave you cold, relax, it’ll likely be the last for a while. The Ashes Summer has just ended with England victorious. Over the bank holiday weekend, the final Test suffered long rain

Newsbar Pie Alternative

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/syria-anti-aircraft.jpg] [/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/syrian-food-medicine.jpg] With rolling news on in the kitchen background tonight, I caught various supposed luminaries state what should happen after chemical warfare emerged in Syria. The HD channels have for a while maxed out

Assess Your Nuclear Events

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale] 300 tons of contaminated water this week leaked [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/world/asia/300-tons-of-contaminated-water-leak-from-japanese-nuclear-plant.html?_r=0] from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. Worried news coverage revealed it as reaching the third level on the seven-step

What To Do After A £10m Fine For Cold-Calling

…stop cold calling. Their doorstep script was quite something. The Daily Mail revealed [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304817/Revealed-The-cynical-script-energy-giant-salesmen-used-signing-rip-energy-deals-doorstep.html] it in April. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304817/Revealed-The-cynical-script-energy-giant-salesmen-used-signing-rip-energy-deals-doorstep.html] This is so old school – that is, bad school. If your script sounds like this, you

How To Get Out Of A Selling Rut Like Top Sport Stars

Working away this week I’ve been able to listen to much of the cricket on Test Match Special. The final Ashes Test saw a rare panic selection from England. A worryingly momentum shifting win is now within Aussie’s reach. Ed Smith [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Smith_

Opportunity Outweighs Scariness

[https://twitter.com/xXx_Belle] [http://instagram.com/xxx_belle] This is the fuzzy telly shot tweeted by an athletics World Champs bronze medallist. Annabelle Lewis carried the baton through the third leg of the women’s 4x100m relay Sunday. She’s on the right of the jubilant quartet. When

Have You Labelled Potential Winners Or Losers

Each time I’ve trailed through an airport bookshop this year it’s been hard to miss the latest tome of uber-psychologist, Daniel Kahneman. Driving around England Friday I was keen to listen to him on Desert Island Discs [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/1206225e#b0381l2v]

Poetry Catches The Bus

A post for those with access to BBC iplayer. The Call Centre is five fly-on-the-wall hours inside the modern day workhouse. The third biggest call centre in Swansea, to be precise. Six years ago, the business started with 8 people. Today there’s 700. Quite some growth. It is the

Another Way To Ditch The Tired Pie

You may well know I strive to find and use different ways to present. Data or Message. The work of the leading infographic ‘artists’ got me going. Especially David McCandles. The tired old pie chart often shows up a page or slide as being stuck in the Eighties. Whilst if