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

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

Make A New Year Resolution To Be A Sellerpreneur

There’s a fairly long established disparaging term for those that think they’re an entrepreneur. Yet they never fully become one. They are all talk, no action. Even milling around trendy, supposed “trep” hangouts. But no plunge ever gets taken. > wannapreneur Publications as august as the WSJ have

Get Your Inspiration Wall Ready For The New Year

I’ve blogged a fair bit on this topic over the years. From the mockery of embarrassment for unworthy American ‘life coaches [http://salespodder.com/dreamboards/]‘ to top-selling musicians [http://salespodder.com/do-your-cubicle-walls-inspire/] in their studio. So I realise how derision can be aimed at inspiration walls. Particularly when they

From Buffaloes To Leopards

I’ve blogged before on the usefulness of animal analogies (including from a sporting [https://salespodder.com/beavers-foxes-dolphins-owls/]source and philosophically [https://salespodder.com/animal-quote-bandit/]speaking) to evoke the desired traits a winning salesperson must embrace. I recently heard a business owner lament that their staff were being slow, clunky

Japanese Knotweed Strategy

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/11/miranda-green-newsnight-21Nov14.png] Sadly, Miranda Green is a Liberal Democrat. In the eye of seeing their polling succumb to the storm, I saw her tell Newsnight’s perky Evan Davis that come next Spring’s general election all will be well. She cited

Do You Sell Truly In Tandem With Your Techie?

So I was chatting over a cheeky pint or three with a landlord of a couple of desirable pubs in Central London. There’s apparently a new app rush in their world; “Order your pint from your chair.” Competition has emerged between at least three players heavily promoting themselves around