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

What A Client Values

One FT columnist I like reading when waiting in corporate receptions is Lucy Kellaway [http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/lucykellaway]. She recently riffed typically irreverent thoughts on messages to give long standing clients. I was intrigued to see her document what she considered the four things that clients valued

Relentless Infomercial Zeal

Louis Theroux and his Weird Weekends [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux%27s_Weird_Weekends]. Over a decade ago he poked his nose in the world of tv shopping channels, centring on an American station in Tampa. Our first exposure was to a room full of presenters, fully pumped

Stop Writing That Email

With a spate of Facebook related horrors involving crimes against children hitting the London press these past few days, one news show talking head stated a remarkable stat. Dr Aric Sigman [http://www.aricsigman.com/] mentioned a formula suggesting that for every one hour of time a child spends on

Emotional Contagion

I was searching for insight into social networking behaviour and came across this TED video from Nicolas Christakis [http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_of_social_networks.html] . his initial interest into widowhood lead to studying clusters of obesity and their social network effects. I was

Newtonian Logic

I landed at an airport just now and after taxi-ing to the terminal, there was a delay as the plane had parked beyond where the mechanical walkway could reach. I then experienced much jolting around as a tug tried to shimmy the plane in position. It reminded me of an

Best-Practice Managers

I was recently reminded of a relaxing social London Sunday in the pub with a pal. I was given a neat refresher of the power of delegation and its ramifications for sales campaigns. My friend went through a decade of managing pubs and as such was required to conduct regular

Progress Visualisation

Without going into potentially incriminating detail, I saw something quite remarkable in the wardrobe of a young lady recently. It was a sheet of paper stuck onto the inner mirror, revealed when she opened the door. In a huge font size, arranged neatly in a pair of columns, were numbers.

Your Attitude Dish

I spent twenty minutes R&R last night reading the always entertaining AA Gill [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_out/a_a_gill/article7030781.ece] review a recently opened London foodie haunt. It was partly because a friend had recommended it

Animated Drive

Here’s an entertaining quote I picked up as the last paragraph of an interview [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-ratzenberger-pixar-perfect-1908350.html] with an actor that’s been in all 11 Pixar films to date. This apparently makes him the 6th highest grossing movie star of all

Scarves On The Slopes

I caught a review of the latest annual Davos shindig. It investigated (with a mixture of surprise and pride) how S Africa apparently made the biggest impact of any country for decades at its World Economic Forum, and all despite the worldwide abhorrence its president’s polygamy engenders. Apparently, in