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At an Asian sales event for a global firm recently, all the area managers gave their next year’s territory plan. One entitled her’s > Planting Rice Is The Agenda I wondered what this meant. To my blinkered Western eyes, I wasn’t sure at first whether it meant

Here’s something that I just recalled. I was reading some sales sage a while back and noted their tip that a salesperson only sells one of two things; > insurance or assurance It’s a point in which I can see merit. You are either going to receive the

A Chief Exec basked in the glory of a good year end. In his corner office, rain smashing against the window, we got to talking about the benefits of his sales team switch around. New business and account management were now separate endeavours. And results proved it was a winning

This is a delicious phrase I recently heard the English-born head of an Asian sales team say. It refers to the kinds of meeting salespeople have a reputation for being all too prone to conduct with professional buyers. It’s where no value exchange goes on whatsoever. I immediately recognised

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/01/20120124-124208.jpg] How is it the Dutch and English come up with all the world’s reality tv shows? I watched yet another the other night. Dating In The Dark has three girls and three boys that only meet each other in

A flickwort, (plural, flickworten, the ‘w’ is pronounced ‘v’ of course) is a German concept. I came across it courtesy of language junkie [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015h1xb] Stephen Fry. The literal translation is “flick words”. It refers to all those unnecessary words you throw in to your

I recently saw a fascinating piece on those that promote proper welfare of vulnerable children. They’d compiled a list of 30 warning signs. These could suggest that a child was being exploited. If any three were witnessed by family and friends at one moment in time, action was likely

[http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/jesus-stolen-and-replaced-by-gnome-in-birmingham-311139] What a story. British humour at its best? I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the world’s largest Frankfurt christmas market outside of Germany when I’ve been to it. And this year saw the centrepiece baby doll mischievously replaced with a garden gnome.

Personal branding. It’s a minefield. And when it doesn’t quite hit the mark, it can be embarrassing. Skynews’ Jeff Randall live had on a couple of ‘treps’ – as the Americans seem to be calling people that set up their own business these days – to discuss the Chancellor’s