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A collection of 261 issues

Fire With The Flick Of The Fingers

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/09/fireinyourpocket.jpg] National treasure Stephen Fry took over an entire evening of a nationwide terrestrial broadcaster last bank holiday weekend to indulge in his list of 100 best ever gadgets. Here’s his introduction for his top all-time gadget. > I was reminded

A Tweetable Definition

Relax, this is not a blog post commanding or even imploring you to take up tweeting. I am though very much an advocate of the brevity it requires permeating through the sales arena. Not quite with all of the text speak and grammatical liberties mind you. A while ago I

James Bond Manned CRM

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/08/oil_platform.jpeg] Five years ago I helped a software house with a lovely little project. I was reminded of it the other day when a chap with half-a-dozen reps on the road talked to me about, in his description, “manned crm”

Catastrophic Success

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/08/saddamstatue-firdos-sq.jpg] Here’s a phrase I’ve heard a lot of this week on news bulletins. As Libya teeters on the verge of Gaddafi being toppled, what no-one wants is the kind of devastating chaos seen in post-Saddam Iraq. All onlookers

Movie Trailer Science

I didn’t realise until reading this recent piece in London’s Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-science-of-the-trailer-2330110.html] broadsheet that making film trailers was a $200m dollar industry. It made me think about my early days of regular cinema attendance, largely only enabled by my

Where's Wino?

Well, the tabloids have been hardly able to contain themselves, have they. In the words of one broadsheet columnist, “Winehouse at last gave the media a collective orgasm of prurient crocodile tears by dying“. The title of this post is that of a regular feature of a London rag, delighting

Abusers, Hedonists and Connoisseurs

Someone working years ago for English brewer Bass told me of efforts to re-launch their Tennents [http://www.google.co.uk/images?num=100&hl=en&q=tennents+lager&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=yAvETKG-PI_QjAfe7rG5BQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQsAQwBA&

Quick And Cheap Tests

Here’s a bullet from a list of business growth recommendations in Management Today [http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1023468/Eight-ways-design-better-start-up/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH] . > Find a way of testing out new products, services or markets quickly and cheaply Whilst primarily aimed at start-up design, this particular pointer has great relevance

Wii U Waffle

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/07/nintendo-wii-games-console-technology] Here’s one from the world of consumer gadgetry. I just heard the Aussie head of Nintendo in the UK, David Yarnton, give an interview on his company’s new games console, the WiiU, from its USA tech show launch.

Are You A Sounding Board?

I caught a recent 70sec video from a Global Product Manager. The reason I clicked on the link was because because I’d been to where he’s based (IBM, Lexington) and he’s an MBA. Then, after saying the obvious – that he looks to financials to judge the success