Topic

quirky

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

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.

4 Reasons Female Prospects Kill Your Hopes

Or not… Regular readers will know I like to embrace many an unusual source for selling inspiration. So I saw a show about a young professional lady who was busy shooting policemen. A profiler intriguingly revealed that motives for such crimes differ between the genders. She described four driving forces

Your Numbers Robust?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/tory2015firstposter.jpg] There’s an election looming in the UK Spring. On 2 January the larger current coalition partner released their first campaign poster. The chatterati became greatly exercised. The ad (above) evokes a road to recovery that can only continue with

Recognise This Dolphin Obsessed Culture?

A cheeky little holiday season post here for you. South African’s vibrant advertising sector is renowned for its sense of humour. Here’s an ad that shows this off nicely. We follow the ‘PA to the CFO’s PA’ as she flounders in the face of a clearly worrying

Escape, Evacuate, Rescue Your Stricken Deal

The ferry that sank this week between Greece and Italy saw the authorities take plenty of flack. Could lives have been saved with a proper emergency response? Why were so many passengers imperilled by being left aboard the stricken vessel for so long? Maritime ‘experts’ filled the airwaves. The accepted

How Top Facebook Scam Can Ease Your Prospect Paranoia

So 2014’s top Facebook scam enticed users to click on a promise to learn which people had viewed their profile. Only to fall victim to malware. Despite claims these are legitimate, “official” apps, this is intel that apparently you cannot possibly have. This criminality prays on the heart’s

What's Your Mona Lisa?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/11/bobkearnsgarage.jpg] My second observation from my festive viewing of the modern windscreen wiper inventor biopic, Flash of Genius. (My first was yesterday’s post). Remember, this is an American tale, so bear with the cheese. Deep in never-ending litigation, our hero

What's Your 'Flash Of Genius' (American For Eureka Moment)?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/11/flashofgeniusfamilycar.jpg] So there’s a 2008 Hollywood biopic about the American lecturer who truly invented the modern day windscreen wiper. It’s called Flash of Genius [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film)]. I caught it for the first