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Four Point Candidate Clip
Pretty much every sales operation I've spoken to on recruitment lately bemoans how tricky it is to get staff.
In the Enterprise space, competition for new hires seems intense. It certainly feels like the balance is heavily in favour of the employee right now.
I blogged on this late last
Leading with Legacy
A while back I helped someone by observing a video meeting of a tender interview. The state of play was as on a final shortlist of two.
Six attendees; two seller side with four buyers.
The Tender Response doc was 34 pages of mainly beautifully formatted tables. Chiefly detailing how
GPT-9 In Your Clients' World
GPT-5: can perfectly build any website
GPT-6: can build and run a company
GPT-7: passes Turing test
GPT-8: overthrows world governments
GPT-9: fails to understand how Jira is supposed to work, gives up, asks humans for help
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) March 24, 2023
As if AI generated memes of a
Video Platform Race To Our Tomorrow
With the Aussie F1 GP today a lot to do to stop sending those still engaged after the first two foregone conclusion snoozefests heading for the exit, I'm reminded of this thirty-seconder from last year's ad campaign of video platformers, Webex.
[Their most recent joint promo is this longer 3-min
Ski Massacre Trial Diagrams
Of all the labels for the Paltrow trial just ran in America's Utah, the descriptor above from one satirical 'analyst' did produce in me a readily audible snigger.
As most reporting seemed to focus on the fashion choice of the counter-suing A-List defendant first, the absurdity of the proceedings second,
South Park Branding Quartet
Having seldom tuned in down the years, I was nudged to view episode number 321 of South Park.
As the above opening credits screenshot shows, the Worldwide Privacy Tour riffed on plenty of meme-ables. In this particular case here, The Magical Mystery Tour of The Beatles, 1967.
To our main
Using Video To Manage Deal Burnout
I've been on literally thousands of sales calls.
From accompanying seniors when learning the trade, through my own, to supporting juniors.
Not to mention when I've been on the 'other side', as buyer.
And latterly, being on those of clients in an observing capacity. Pretty much all of which have
Is Your Implementation Like an EV Startup?
Never one to miss taking a PR utterance of a global exec out of context, here's Ford ceo John Lawler. Discussing the billion dollar losses currently being racked up by its nascent 'Model e' division;
"as everyone knows, EV start-ups lose money while they invest in capability, develop knowledge, build
Do You Have A Nickname?
Another piece of clickbait, and I learn about how nicknames from firstnames are formed.
It was a short clip before I realised this provides Sales insight in at least two ways.
Whether you have a nickname and whether your prospect also has one.
I suspect the first organisation nickname most