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What Sales Can Take From PM Cameron's EU Brexit Letter To Tusk

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/deardonald-top.jpg] Two thousand words. Across six pages. Only a main headline with two section titles, one with four subheadings, for breakers. Not the kind of document you often see in selling. Whether sanctioned or suggested. Yet this is an incredibly important

Reassure Rebuild Re-ask; The Charity Cold Calling 3Rs Trap

> “Ian McDowell experiences misery working in a cold calling centre to raise money for charities and questions this method of fund-raising.” We’re indebted to this comms pro for recounting his trauma. Listen yourself via the September 2015 free BBC download [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068xjtl] of

Burning Sugging Screamers

There’s precious little retail boiler room telesales do that is recommended for us solution door openers. UK investigative tv show Dispatches placed a pair of reporters undercover inside two such operations this year. One was outright cold calling. The other, pretty much the same but trying to creep under

Do Better Than Burberry Trainer Shop Assistant

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

93-Year Incumbent Fails To Forecast Changing Weather

[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

The 7m eBay Seller Secret About Pricing And Negotiation

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

Bangkok Street Thai Cafe Stall Knows Their Best Seller And So Should You

[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

The Lazy House Of Lies Property Agent’s Close You Should Not Use

[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

Sprinkle Your Pitch With Bentley Luxury

[/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

Tired Tyre Rep

[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