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new products

A collection of 276 issues

Could Your Latest Launch Be Ruined By The Four Most Dangerous Words In Investment?

What are the four most dangerous words in investment? According to seasoned London market investor Tom Stevenson [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/10757236/Will-the-2014-technology-stock-market-boom-repeat-the-dotcom-bust-of-2000.html] , they are; > it’s different this time. He reveals this as part of his exasperation that in early-2014 we seem to

Esquire Editor Advice On Hearing Lifetime Of Pitches

Here’s the odd coffee break biscotti courtesy of the Entrepreneur mag. A columnist [http://www.entrepreneur.com/author/1586] at Esquire shares little chunks of his selling wisdom. Here’s a snippet, when extolling the virtues of a 15 second pitch guide [http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223454]; >

Are You Heralding Your Launch Like Facebook Did?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/02/1stloginpageoffacebook.jpg] Let’s hope not, hey. So it seems Facebook turns ten years old today. As this screengrab whizzes around cyberspace today to record. It’s apparently their first ever logon page. The exception that proves the rule? A quick examination

What To Do When Your Product Launch Mirrors Empty Skyscraper Space

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/01/Shard-from-London-Br-platform-Nov12.jpg] The Shard is the tallest building in Western Europe. Everyone I knew around the area loved seeing its development. A truly landmark site. It bestrides an enclave of London I’ve long adored. I took this pic one crisp autumnal

What Every Exec Ought To Know About Selling Product Plans

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/01/markreussgm.jpg] As the 25th Detroit Motor Show began Monday, Jeff Randall interviewed a happy General Motors exec. At first Mr Randall seemed more preoccupied with what it’d be like soon for all those petrolhead fellas – for the first time in

Is Your New Product Like NASA’s Space Pen?

[http://startswithabang.com/?p=1204] Here’s something I was reminded of when recently catching a glimpse of the first lunar landing for forty years. You probably know of this space program urban legend [http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_zero_gravity_pen.htm]; What do you do when you

Breaking Bad Calculations

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/Breaking_Bad_logo.png] Breaking Bad. What’s all the fuss about? It’s not that I don’t watch a bit of telly now and then. It’s just that, as the growing trend, I tend not to follow the broadcast

If Someone Tells You It'll Never Fly...

On a talk radio show Monday I caught a discussion on the merits or otherwise of a particular piece of technology. It was the world’s first [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22885969] lab-grown meat. To be cooked and eaten as a burger patty later that day, live in

How You Hoping To Sell Jack's Beanstalk?

Here’s someone with a take on how to persuade people to adopt something ‘new’. Brian Millar [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669568/what-jack-and-the-beanstalk-can-teach-you-about-pitching-clients] uses the story of Jack and his Beanstalk, highlighting the role of the coins set against the magic beans. Too much newness puts off almost everyone. Think

First-Mover Advantage?

I’ve attended several sales conferences where new products are ceremoniously unveiled. I’m regularly struck by the enormous desire to trailblaze. The rising triumphalism often aims to drum home how cutting edge the new offering is. How it opens up a whole new market segment. There’s nothing like