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I was chatting with a business pal about the dreaded discount. Explaining my deep rooted ‘never discount’ policy, I mentioned there were plenty of academic studies into the impact of discounting. One recurring finding being that a buyer fails to value a product bought with a significant price cut. Buying

[http://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/leaving-essays-to-the-last-minute-ruins-students-grades/]] I loathe last minute merchants. I’m not talking online auction or hotel-day-of-arrival chancers. My ire is for those who expect their atrocious time keeping to be my fire to fight. As the old phrase goes; > don’t think your bad planning

The tightest UK election perhaps ever looms. I saw the MP for a constituency I know well interviewed on her hustings. She’s held ultra-marginal Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997. She put it down in no small part to “incumbency”. Despite ferocious competition, she believed her response to voters swings it.

You know the scene. Contract renewal time. Budgets must be re-submitted. Procurement rules demand re-tender. All preferred suppliers invited to bid. Whether incumbent or insurgent, I realise there’s a tactic you can pull from current UK general electioneering to potentially rise above the fray. It’s all about the

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/greatoffmenubrekkie.jpg] In an eaterie, (with the above pictured off-menu brekkie of grown-up chuckie eggs and soldiers), I overheard the owner ask one of her waitrons whether a new dish (a three cheese lasagne) had earned any compliments. The waitron wasn’t

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

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

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