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A collection of 113 issues

Good News Columns Not Rows

> I wrote the good news column in today’s paper ❤️ pic.twitter.com/7SUNGRylV7 [https://t.co/7SUNGRylV7] — Helena Horton (@horton_official) March 30, 2020 [https://twitter.com/horton_official/status/1244512793174388740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Today’s print edition run of what for a week or so has been

Autocomplete Answering Goes Mainstream

[https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1222280472132308993] I’ve blogged on the sales-wonder of autocomplete before (here’s two, from May [http://salespodder.com/the-essence-of-selling-from-heavyweight-champion-of-the-world/] then Oct [http://salespodder.com/when-worlds-biggest-advertiser-uses-the-autocomplete-slide-so-can-you/] of 2017). Now it seems the freshly installed UK Prime Minister is rebalancing their messaging channels to push digital marketing

Is Your Proposal Modernising?

The British web couldn’t get enough of this week’s meeting announcing swathes of job losses at the news division of tax funded broadcaster, BBC. Through this, I was also intrigued to learn of their original mission, “happier homes, broader culture and truer citizenship”, which is nowadays replaced by

Zero Risk Guarantee

I recently ran through a list of a couple dozen ‘managed service providers’. Not many stood out (in the manner you’d expect, akin to conference bios [http://salespodder.com/trade-show-buzzword-bingo-stifles-sales/]). Yet one and one alone had as a homepage topline menu bar option; zero risk guarantee. They duly lodged

Dodge The Competence Drag

Can you implement? What proves you will deliver what you promise? And perhaps just as pertinently, is there a trail of evidence that suggests any alternative to what you propose is likely to suffer from being begun and managed badly? With time and cost overruns and all manner of distractions

Can Your Process Outcome Switcheroo Count?

Once upon a time I endured a rather dispiriting experience. An encounter with a superkeen young graduate, two years in the workplace. They delighted in telling me their prime, sole even, motivation was to earn mountains of money. I tried to encourage reflection from guided experience. To help perhaps rebalance

Stock Weight Of Your Bid

A three-tiered rating system can be applied in the world of stocks and shares. These labels can refer to individual shares as well as to the proportions of different sectors within a broader held portfolio. The terms overweight, equal-weight and underweight suggest a perceived value. For a single stock, its

Non-Papers Pre-Proposal Process Step Reminder Piggyback

The most reported negotiation on the planet as I blog sways between the EU & UK over Brexit, the US-China “Trade War” and ongoing reverberations from the elapsed Iranian Nuclear Deal. This week the former approaches its (latest) cold-sweaty deadline. The Eurocrats demand to see amended plans by certain dates. The

Does Your Prop Suffer From Wikipediitis?

> wikipediitis: when a documentary would’ve been better served as an annotated article This is a contemporary criticism of many a supposedly investigate look at a subject on-screen. When it merely recites talking head recollection, without story arc nor deeper context, and bloats the running time by plugging gaps with

Emoji Bullets Green Deal

I despair. Why oh why is this debate allowed to be hijacked? Is it because the overwhelming majority of the rest of us non-loons, whilst sharing passion for this issue, get on with doing something about in our own (how ever small) ways, without antagonising any supposed culprits by wrongly