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MSM in the form of London’s Telegraph broadsheet this week carries a Sales related ‘workplace fable’. Should the link be awry by the time you may click, let me précis. It concerns a cold caller aiming to reach a prospect CEO [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/workplace-fable-persistent-caller-ceo/

[https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/young-marx/] Barrister-turned-comedy-writer-turned-journalist Clive Coleman recently opened a jointly scripted play. Apparently in the first new commercial venue for eighty years in London’s West End, The Bridge Theatre. Young Marx [https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/young-marx/] on the face of it may not be fertile

Chatting away to a seasoned campaigner I learned of their early schooling. In the harsh world of American investment telephone selling. It appears that back in the day, one of the key mantras that sales office ran on was; > if they can’t be controlled, they won’t be sold.

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/04/5es-of-plastic-lawn-provider.jpg] You may have read my recent musings on what I consider a great little tactic. Framing yourself by 5 words, all beginning with the same letter. Well. I riffed with a pal of mine, in the midst of beefing up

[video.foxnews.com/v/5700228268001/] Her Fox News bio; ‘award-winning executive coach and career strategist Elizabeth Koraca [https://twitter.com/elizabethkoraca?lang=en]‘. Richard Quest on his CNN Money hour took the extremely rare step of making notes from what she said. The topic they both covered, unsurprisingly at this

[https://www.inc.com/video/adam-bryant/if-people-make-fun-of-this-1-thing-you-do-as-a-leader-youre-doing-a-good-job.html?cid=hmpopwatch1] Here’s insight credited by an Adam Bryant (pictured above) on a 90sec Inc [https://www.inc.com/video/adam-bryant/if-people-make-fun-of-this-1-thing-you-do-as-a-leader-youre-doing-a-good-job.html?cid=hmpopwatch1] mag clip to a Marc Cenedella of professional careers site theladders.com. Something very much worth

I hope you are not (tap)dancing to this tune. Could almost be a scene out of Tin Men [http://salespodder.com/tin-men-a-salesmans-review/]. It arrives via a Nineties unethical home security salesteam around Los Angeles. You get a sense for the culture of said outfit from stories of how they

It sounds like the title of some highbrow Oxbridge debate; “This House Believes An Unelected Head Of State Is Morally Indefensible“. With political change coursing through the European air, the British wish to vote for their ceremonial figurehead, rather than have one foisted upon them inherited through arcane birthright, seems

Preparation. Or lack of it. Especially when it’s a deal killer. We’ve all got these stories. Even if we pride ourselves on always doing our “research” before that pivotal first meeting. In the days immediately prior the web – yes, solution selling did take place in such a darkened