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[https://automattic.com/work-with-us/] This random ad flashed before me. Occupying only a small fraction of the laptop screen, it still caught my eye. And not only because I was one of their very first bloggers on the WordPress platform developed by these pre-2.0 digital natives. Their original was

Very much enjoying the mass of #moonlanding50 documentaries as we hit this momentous anniversary. The image up-top takes the stars from the Flat Earth Society (I know!) and puts them in the two main colours of the circular bands around Apollo 11’s badge. This alone, in your own colours

[https://news.sky.com/story/science-storms-and-protests-behind-climate-crisis-11744227] Another week, another [https://salespodder.com/plastic-problem-pitching/] climate change journalist thread. London based Sky News broadcast their latest series of eco-reports, called A New Climate. The header image above struck me for being the type of three-way horizontal bar split readily adaptable for a

This is in effect the title slide from the flotation prospectus of ‘ride-hailing app’ Lyft. The ‘y’ by the way, apparently standing for “why”. I know… As “mission statements” go, it’s sadly a shocker. All hail … the personal jetpack! Leaving the b-school Strategy module lesson to one side, does

We’re suffocating our home, and smothering all those with whom we share it. Susie Cagle duly illustrates [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/23/all-the-plastic-ever-made-study-comic] the plastic produced predicament. Here’s a selection of her drawings with Sales presenting links. The first (above) is a stacked bar in

I often find a cheeky remix-ripe design-leaning newsjack sales slide irresistible. Somehow, my feeds this weekend felt flooded with a ladies’ polka dot dress [https://www.zara.com/uk/en/printed-dress-p04886058.html?v1=14694309&v2=1143013] from Euro-giant Zara. At forty quid, quite the must-have Summer item it seems.

Email subject lines can cause Gordian contortions throughout my cortex. But fear not, AI is about to be at hand. Yikes or yay? I was alerted [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47944276] to this upcoming tsunami of algorithm produced text via examples of computer generated ad straplines. And some

We’re all Greenies now. This month sees one of the foreboders release their latest treatise on our impending doom. Plenty of good pitching to learn from. The phrase “bleach away” prominent too. Synonymous with negative impact of corporate inertians as well as carbon addicted governments. Bill McKibben [https://salespodder.

Here’s a phrase you might have heard. Many a pitch for some radical new marvel contains something similar. Indeed, since any truly disrupting tech has swept the globe, it’s been a well worn trope. Today’s incarnation is akin to; > “yes! we’re the uberisation of _________” Fill