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Business analysts seem perplexed as to why UK sportshoe sales have increased ten percent this year. Average “pairs per closet” have risen. People are stocking up with different types. Lightweight, walking, cross/trail, specific sport and fashion. Wardrobes across the land bulge to a rabbiting of breed. Ballooning new entrants

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3209635/Heard-one-Fringe-s-best-joke-Comedian-Darren-Walsh-scoops-year-s-award-s-chosen-Germans-butt-it.html] As Autumn begins, a topical selling barometer. I have very little time for weather forecasters. And the ones English licence-fee payers must put up with are surely the planet’s very worst. Yes there are the well-known howlers throughout BBC provider

Lots of aspirational PR accompanies the current 20th anniversary of eBay. One such ‘success’ caught my eye. The rather ingenious why-didn’t-I-think-of-that London duo who sell for you all those belongings of irritation you encounter when moving house. Seven million quid’s worth shifted later, one co-founder shared key wisdom

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/07/khangsoi-thai-menu.jpg] Sathorn business district. Downtown Bangkok. Along Silom Road. A tiny alley (“soi”) with a pop-up yet permanent Thailand style coffee stall. Named after the alleyway, with counter on the main road’s pavement, Khang-soi brims with smiling servers. What do

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/01/HoL-s02e10-a.jpg] House Of Lies. A terrific show built around the dysfunctional life of a stellar management consultant salesman. Not for the faint-hearted. There’s many a blog you could write on the sales skills used throughout. The protagonist’s main approach

[/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/bentley-foxnews-stuart-varney-christophe-georges.jpg] Here’s another example of a chief exec trying to give it The Big Sell. The head of car maker Bentley’s N American operation, Christophe Georges, snared a couple of minutes on Fox News. My screenshot above sees him (left) interviewed by

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/06/tiger-wt.jpg] A wonderful sunny Winter’s day in Cape Town and I got a puncture. So, having experienced less than great service before at local chain Pitstop, this time I ventured to competitor Tiger Wheel & Tyre. The chap greeting me

[www.eveandranshaw-louth.co.uk/] The latest spin on a well trodden business reality TV theme. Running The Shop sees The Boss of a tired, static, failing firm leave their staff in charge for three weeks. Along with thirty grand to make changes. Amid the juicily edited emerging tyrants and tears

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sg6ql] A disturbing five minutes of excellent radio reporting caught my ear. Broadcast 29 May 2015, BBC Radio 4 Today’s Zoe Conway secretly recorded [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sg6ql] someone selling a tax dodge scheme. It alleges that what is captured