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

How To Secure The Vote With Your 60-second Opening Statement

So it’s General Election time in the country of my birth. Opposition candidates scramble to attend one of several “tv debates”. They are highly regimented. Each hopeful cut off should they dare to exceed their allotted time. Every such scrum seems to kick-off the same way. The sixty second

Generation Forward Slash Repping

One trend that finally seems to be everywhere is the exploding “slash generation/the future of work”. Generation Forward Slashare people who eschew typical 9-5, sole employer status. Self-descriptions such as these I read in The Times now abound; cafe owner / festival organiser social entrepreneur / set builder musician / holiday lets

See The Shape

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/03/photo-1.jpg] [/content/images/wordpress/2013/03/photo-2.jpg] Here’s something I witnessed in a restaurant. I thought it shone terrific light on an issue with a clear Sales analogy. The owner had bought some big white pumpkins. They love pumpkins,

What Any Solution Salesperson Must Know About Election TV Debate Running Order Choice

The first ever UK genuine general election television debate took place only last time round. 2010 saw a trio of debates with the then three main party leaders sharing a stage. It’s very different for 2015. In the run up to 7 May there is just one single such

Sitting On The Election Kitchen Stool

Pre-poll fervour continues to grip media monkeys in Blighty. With just six weeks to go, we’ve got hurriedly treated with a new canvassing device. The kitchen interview. Leaders now rush to portray themselves beside their sinks. One mistakenly chose to inhabit their second kitchen. Lucky them. Although not so

What's Your Long-Term Economic Plan

With the UK election just a few weeks away, here’s quite the funky forty seconds, hey. Skynews and (today’s) Budget mash-up. What it does show, is the mantra that the incumbent’s are repeating. Ad nauseam say the Opposition. Until the reality sinks in say those in power.

Choose Your Sales Cake Ingredients Wisely

A pair of pop culture events have sparked my selling synapses this week. From an American courtroom emerged the baffling decision that Marvin Gaye’s sublime 1977 recording Got To Give It Up was shamelessly ripped off by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for their 2013 mega-hit, Blurred Lines. Yet

When Binary Choices Are So Poles Apart

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/03/plancreatedo400x300.jpg] Here’s a winning Sales angle sparked from England’s current National Apprenticeship Week. One ‘advertising, creative and digital media talent’ initiative [www.creativepioneers.co.uk] joins the effort with a delightful play on established brain types. You probably know

I Hope You Don't Ship 'Units'

Here’s a notable recent encounter I had with a tech chief exec. In private and full of good humour, they ran through a mini-presentation for an off-site Sales conference. The company had a primary product line. Sales were doing well. As part of their address they lauded this evident

The Salesperson Serendipity Struggle

Travelling around Blighty I’d forgotten that the occasional rose can appear in the dung-filled field that sadly is the talk radio landscape. Enter knowledge gained from Radio 4’sThe Infinite Monkey Cage [http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc]. (Precise episode mp3 download [http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/