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I caught a documentary (from Channel 4’s excellent Dispatches [http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/] stable)attempting to expose the sharp practices of debt collectors the other night. 95% of the footage suggested that successful people in these roles, driven by the lucrative profit of recouping entire amounts often

Another sales idea gleaned from guests on Evan Davis’ Bottom Line [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sz6t]. Vacuum cleaner game changer and über inventor James Dyson uses an approach to innovation that has an application for sales campaign planning. He advocates a mindset that he calls wrong thinking. A

It’s a Sunday morning for which the town where I’m visiting at present is renowned. Manchester, mid-Summer? It can only mean a fourth straight day of rain and midday temperatures shivering along at 14°. Luckily, my aim to get tucked into the cricket and hopefully watch England edge

Here’s a snippet of wonderful insight I gleaned from someone working in Finance about selling to CFOs.  He was talking specifically about hedging. > “Hedging doesn’t add value, but it does manage risk and adds predictability to your business planning” He went on to describe how major shareholders

Someone I fleetingly know walked up to me the other day and asked that wince-inducing question, “what do you think of network marketing?”  I duly squirmed through the next five minutes of chat, trying to politely put him off the idea. Later, I dug through my old files to find

Sainsbury’s were the UK’s number one supermarket in the Eighties, only to be overtaken by Tesco in the Nineties.  They remain unsurprisingly keen to claw back their slipped ground.  Through the joy that is Noughties business reality tv, I caught a small convenience-store employee of theirs used as

I attended a presentation the other evening billed as how to fight your way through the credit crunch recession using lessons from when lawyers and accountants gain more clients. Whilst it failed to deliver anything earth-shatteringly new or unique on this score (but then perhaps merely confirming ‘basics’ was the