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quirky

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

The Joy In Seeing A Room For Tidying

Marie Kondo's at it again. The decluttering star launches her latest bestseller bound advice. Among the mass of promo for her new book, one bright spark was a typically insufferable yet expressive columnist with the joyful idea of getting the great lady to tidy up her home office desk. As

12 Hooks of Christmas

You're the super busy Santa and I'll be your little helper Merry Christmas and a Happy [insert problem solved state you enable] New Year It's the most wonderful time buy of the year Believe in the magic of Christmas [fixing this issue] Walking in a Winter [place having fixed this

Think Outside The Toast

I only caught this in the aural dusk that is a Youtube video ad interrupting a flow of autoplay in the distance. Yet it seemed a belter. From a beans ad. Not just any old beans. No. Baked Beans. Sold in the gazillions countrywide. Smothered in their tin can by

15 Choices For Reclaiming Annoying Jargon

An Autumn 22 survey of most annoying business jargon in English offices produced these fifteen worst offenders. Well, can 4,500 people be wrong? For starters, surely that definition of synergy is not quite right? The classic b-school shorthand has long been; 2 + 2 = 5 Even the google's promoted meaning

Price's Law Alt 80/20 Angle

Solution Selling does love a touch of Pareto. Oh the fun - and truckloads of orders - I had in the late 90s in my days that what would now be called Data Warehousing or BI. All those must-have queries of execs lovin' the new superpower to know precisely which

Using Chinese Freedom Fight Cryptic Codes

The CCP, as regular readers will doubtless know, I hold in the greatest of contempt. Now the lunacy of Xi Jinping's zero-covid diktat for the sake of his eternal power has boiled over among swathes of China's enslaved populace. Mass demonstrations taking place. Unshackling demanded. Regime upheaval chanted. How we

Hardcore Defined

O-oh. Our Bru Elon. His mid-November midnight missive to Twitter staffers featured this widely reported nugget; "Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance

ID Unsustainable Situations

Rudi Dornbusch, German economist whose final post was teaching at MIT, passed on plenty of acclaimed insight. Like this, later recounted by one of his students who became a Harvard professor; "Unsustainable situations go on for longer than you think. And when they collapse, that happens faster and harder than

Your Selling Name

More an internal moment of levity, this. Yet I couldn't let the continued terrorism of infrastructure disrupting, precious artwork soup smothering, and road blocking of a hysterically unhinged self-appointed elite go by. They've long since stopped being 'activists'. Now they are a deranged, criminal cult. Hated, yes truly, by the

Wall of Wine Penetration Possibility

London wine journalist Victoria Moore sums up wine aisle angst well when shopping; "The phrase “wall of wine” was coined long ago to describe the impenetrable feel of a display of bottles in a shop. Because where do you start? Without pulling the cork or unscrewing the cap, it’s