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quirky

ideas and experiences with a selling angle that come from left-field

Using Fridgenomics To Gauge Prospect Buy Likelihood

I caught a half-hour BBC World Talking Business [http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31042292] with Linda Yueh discussing fridgenomics. It began fairly factually. A trio of white male middle-aged analysts explained how fridge ownership portrays a country’s middle-class make-up. The aspirant working class all desire a tv, mobile phone

Recommendation Tips From Grumpy Food Trucks

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/lotusfoodtruck.jpg] Cape Town’s up and coming Woodstock. I happened upon The Lotus Food Truck. My two previous experiences of food trucks had been from two extremes. Meiseis, run by the delightful Marley in the same town is excellent. Jeff’s

How Bedded To Your Incorrect Process Are You

So I’ve a friend living in Cape Town. He decided it was time to buy an expensive bed. Five years ago he”d had a demo from English firm, Tempur. So he recontacted them. They duly emailed a brochure. He called, ready to buy. Their pitiful response amazed him.

Distracted By Risk Map Stability?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/wpid-questinfrontofriskmap400w.jpg] I do secretly enjoy Richard Quest’s annual Davos reporting for CNN. Yet every year I rail at the procession of supposed global movers and shakers that talk the same old utter rubbish. (Note my blog touching on this a

Show Your Sales Grit

Someone I once admired confided in me that one key reason they’d earned business plaudits was because they had “grit”. At the time I was struck by the specific choice of word. Their subsequent colour defined this as ‘I get up, I get going and I do what needs

Never Write Off The Year

The first few days of January can be a tough selling time. Your target market have their own stuff – rarely yours – to focus on. Your cupboard may well be bare too. New role perhaps. Virgin turf taken on. No December sandbagging. Prospect count zero. Wishpect score similarly nil. Headless chickens,

We Live In A Box Culture

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/drkailashchand.jpg] As 2015 starts, the British Medical Association launch a campaign to try and get us all to eat healthier. According to Deputy Chair, Dr Kailash Chand, two-thirds of all patients visiting his GP surgery have food-caused ailments. Sugar the number

Five Words To Ruin A Date

[https://www.facebook.com/kfmbreakfast] Listening to local Capetonian radio last Thursday, Ryan O’Connor’s breakfast crew duly opened up the lines for a feature; #FiveWordsToRuinADate. (Which turns out to have been a global trending phenomenon [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2913054/The-hilarious-FiveWordsToRuinADate-revealed-Twitter-hashtag-goes-viral.html] .) Typically, the Cape Towners

How You Can Build On Dating Site Chat Tips

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/wpid-am-msg-hot-tips.jpg.jpeg] I have a friend. Not a friend of a friend. And no, they haven’t spent time in the Emergency Room mysteriously impaled onto a vacuum cleaner. This friend recently suffered a messy split. They duly popped onto a

What Are Your Levels Of Terror Threat & Response

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/wpid-jesuischarileplane.jpg] Je Suis Charlie. The aftermath of the week’s barbarity in Paris reminded me of the genius and power of cartoonists [http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/heartbreaking-cartoons-from-artists-in-response-to-the-ch?s=mobile] . It also saw examination of the terror threat level in London.