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[http://paidpost.nytimes.com/cathay-pacific/business-travel-and-the-boost-to-your-bottom-line.html] The PR department of airline Cathay Pacific [http://paidpost.nytimes.com/cathay-pacific/business-travel-and-the-boost-to-your-bottom-line.html] splashed a fair few quid lately to ensure their message “slash travel budgets at your peril” was read by business leaders. I’m interested in this as a Sales

This little treasure had the temerity to sneak through my spam filters the other day. How’s this for a blind, cold mail. Straight to the point; > [firstname] Can we schedule a few minutes to discuss our video production work and pricing structure? We work with hundreds of technology companies

Over brekkie this morning I caught the promotion of ‘soft skills’ in schools. One time UK telly Dragon’s Den investor, James Caan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Caan_%28entrepreneur%29], is the drive’s figurehead. On that show his performances were largely underwhelming. Yet he made a mint

The Tangle Teezer [http://www.tangleteezer.com/]. I was blissfully unaware of this product. Until I heard a one-time hairdresser describe his rise. For ten years he’d battled with how to untangle young ladies’ knotted hair in his salon. Gradually, his preferred method of combining comb and brush morphed

Here’s a not un-typical format for an initial email. I was shown it on a real-world printout in a live sales office. > I work with [company x] and would like to set up a meeting on how you manage [ whatever relevant buzzword] Here’s what we do, who rates

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/07/pepperpot.jpg] In a lunchspot the other day, I was on a communal table where an artist was chatting to an anti-nuclear power campaigner. The annoyance of being expected to do ‘free’ work in return simply for exposure was quick to surface.

[http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/13/-sp-lets-stick-together-the-teams-behind-kylie-coronation-street-spotify-today-and-house-of-holland] In general scrolling downtime, I was glad to come across thisGuardian investigation [http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/13/-sp-lets-stick-together-the-teams-behind-kylie-coronation-street-spotify-today-and-house-of-holland] into how various cultural successes tick. Stockholm’s Spotify story revealed a trio of takeaways for as