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Cyan Monday

Don't forget 'Blue Monday's is consumerist drivel. It's just another day we are lucky to see. Especially if you can get out in nature. pic.twitter.com/aCfMD4sirY — Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ (@NotThatBigIan) January 19, 2026 Well today's the day. The worst of

Dreamsetting Buyer Goals

If there's one genre to be incredibly wary of, it's surely that of self-help. I myself have little time for the Robbins' of this world. One of many self-styled guru problems, is that whenever there is a kernel of a decent idea, it is swamped

Comparison Is the Thief of Joy

I came across this saying, of traditional source, after having recently blogged on similar via comic Jimmy Carr. In our selling context, I have seen such blinkers curtail performance. For instance, our competition is not with fellow team members, but against our quota. As also mentioned in the above referenced

Sell Me This Laptop

🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/Qbsw5lFeZS — Invisidon (@QuantumAlteredX) January 6, 2026 Surely mythical. Yet a reminder of how different Sales interviews ought be from the standard general approach. As someone once flown around the world to coach sales leaders specifically through interviewing Enterprise candidates for actual sales skill, I've come

Has Era Of Elite Sport Prep Passed Your Sales Effort By

"This is an era where the best teams throw everything possible at winning, from data analysts to watt bikes to cryotherapy chambers" Journalist Oliver Brown mentioned this in his withering exposé of England's disastrous Ashes tour for the ages. One with practically zero planning save a

I'm a local energy advisor in your area, hope you're doing well today...

Ew. Still have a landline? Even know what one is? One I came to answer rang the other lunchtime heralded an opening of this blog's title. A bright and breezy chap. Not sounding in first flushes of youth either. Rattled off the above in unaccented, clear, smooth English

Ah Yes, the Consultant Class Has a Term for That...

I enjoyed a late-December series of satire posted by a Peter Girnus. A chap that seems to know the ins and outs, especially the down and outs, of AI rollout, being 'agile', and all things disruptive. Our selling slant being take these buzzwords and, especially when you aim

Buyer Theory of Mind

This concept seems of growing prevalence lately. My perhaps surface understanding is that it's about how people often misattribute their worldview onto others. With the specific example of those from what's termed a WEIRD perspective - that is, of Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic background -

Prompt Selling

Remember when all you'd hear was of prompt engineering? People getting jobs from nowhere on Premier League footballer salaries. Who'd supposedly mastered the art of the super prompt. Hear much about these prompt whisperers today? As this new year dawns from such single plant a veritable

Chart Graphics of 2025

Twelve months back, a selection of 16 graphics came through from 2024 as noteworthy for furthering our persuasive aims through charting. Time to look at what 2025 doth brung. Let's start off at basecamp. An entry-level, typical linegraph. If we presented such - which can be acceptable -