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new products

A collection of 276 issues

New Acceptance at 7th Time of Asking

I got reminded of latch-lifters as a concept. I blogged way back in 2007 on one particular top tech seller angle on this. Although that latter slant was about having ready-prepared fresh topics on which to talk, the shared point, is that you're not weakly regurgitating the same

UK Making Tax Digital Fiasco & Our New Product Pitch Failure

Freelancers, forget it. The clear message from UK tax authorities from this week's financial year-starting obligation to lose money for no other reason than pointless bureaucratic over-reach. Branded as its initials, MTD. The self-employed, already weighed down by onerous reporting of unnecessary compliance, now must submit everything up

Launch Commit Criteria

View this post on Instagram A post shared by salespodder (@salespodder) An actual moonshot had lift-off this week. Nasa's Artemis II heads to the dark side. Immediately prior with launch countdown at T-minus 10 minutes, it got paused. At the time, I heard seasoned scientists discuss why. Given

Deep Dive New Product Rescue Mined Afresh

I blogged last month on my dispiriting first attempt to gain newfound insight around my 'new product rescue' niche authority. Using my own 'language model' from one of the big boys to identify 'golden threads', winning patterns and useful gaps. Yet its output'

Our Pointy-Haired Boss Run New Order of Things Gauntloop

You had a parasocial relationship with Dilbert genius Scott Adams? This Catch-22 exposé is a concise takedown of the risk-averse, follow-the-herd corporate thinking of which his work brims. I cite this innovation-killer angle plenty. One of my favourites from long back being when in the personal office of an intransigent

Sales Abiogenesis

"Expecting [enzymes] to arise spontaneously on the early Earth is a bit like expecting a Boeing 747 to assemble itself as a whirlwind tears through a junkyard." It holds fascination. How chemistry moved into biology. What happened in that legendary primordial soup to spark life. Where did that

Novelty Disdain

"The larger point [from agtech] is that the empirical Anglo-Saxon approach to science clashes with the EU’s top-down precautionary principle, which tends to treat novelty as guilty until proven innocent" ― Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Broadsheet International Affairs Editor & columnist There's plenty of models around new product

Sales Offshooting

There's a step-change hitting the car trade. All those longstanding, storied global colossi that for lifetimes and beyond have sucked up the entire market are perhaps already falling towards oblivion. To casual observers, how difficult can it be? Scale up that phone battery which a handful of years

True OG Internet Dad's Sales Tips

And boy, they were aplenty. This month saw the death from cancer at just 68yo of whom many would know as the Dilbert cartoon strip creator, Scott Adams. He often spoke about how he was decent at certain standalone pursuits. What with having an Economics degree and MBA, working through

Top Vocab Tip

'What you need to acquire a foreign language is graft.' The thrust of noted polyglot, Noel Malcolm. A distinguished scholar who speaks any number of languages. At least fifteen, stemming from his student days taking Balkan Summer trips. When one journalist asked him recently [sub'n req&