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A friend of mine shared a frustration with a recent re-sell cold call tale. He’d bought a new car three years prior. Being eco-friendly, he chose a hybrid. The payments nearing their end, the vendor had been “bombarding” (his word) him with email invites to various events to view

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0687vsh] I simply couldn’t resist blogging this. Super-inventor John Crawshaw Taylor. I’d normally shy away from posting too much caught via the Brexit Bashing Corporation. When they let through a glaring typo like above, I feel a little happier doing so. This

[https://twitter.com/metoffice] My old hometown experienced yet another rare weather day over their Late Spring Bank Holiday. These once in a century events seem shortening to just about every year across the globe. I caught a weatherman [https://twitter.com/lukemiall?lang=en] being ‘grilled’. One person sadly

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