Topic

quirky

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

Roadblock Coaching

What is the opposite of a life coach? More downtime doomscrolling, another supposedly boundary pushing clickbait slant on personal improvement. In part I clicked through in the slim hope I'd learn about a new emerging cohort of 'coaches'. Having magically unearthed how they can enrich lives. Freeing the frustrated from

FOBO & How To Beat It

ꜰᴏʙᴏ; the fear of being obsolete. The current infestation in the workplace sprouting from ꜰᴏᴍᴏ. This appears coined in the light of the recent explosion into the worker psyche of AI. Yet applies equally to any tech-driven threat to the little piece of commerce that we've managed to carve out

USP Unusuals

“There are only so many ways you can overcome a challenge . . . I don’t believe in unique selling points; it’s often about unusual selling points. All you’ve got to do is have multiple unusual things that you do that not everyone’s doing. So that’s mainly what

Tenderwang

I was recently reminded of experience a while back where a big corp's internal governance required for potential supplier events upon upcoming issuing of a tender. You may have been to the type of gathering. Typically at RFP/ITT (sometimes RFI too, but likely not RFQ) stage. All those who

When Draining the Swamp of Frogs

Since spotting Sales value in the abrupt cancelled expansion of Europe's largest transport infrastructure construction this week, I learn of a foundational reason for the UK's inability to build anything big. Some cite the difference between English common law and the continental neighbours' Napoleonic principles. In the former, rights emanate

You A Sixth Waver?

“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” The summation of fund manager 'legend', Sir John Templeton. That alone is worth a decent sales slide. In the very least, one annotated by striking out the stock market trader term 'bull markets' for

Trick, Decoded

A freelance task platform initiative reached my inbox, bandwagonning the latest pop-sci juggernaut. Here's a trio of their straps to entice. AI, decoded amAIzing projects get into the (algo) rhythm Whilst this is marketing copy, our selling thrust might well take a tip from it. Let's set aside the pun-able

Windoze Agenda Slide Trap

A while back, I saw this above slide template. Awaiting a small working party. With whom I had no dealings. Their get-together about to commence. For aesthetics I've switched their white background to grey. Kept the big 'Microsoft Blue' circle with its contained title as-was. And swapped the position of

Meeting Money Moment

There's many a meeting persona we can do without; room meat, information tourists, spuddlers. Among such unwelcome spectre, there's the undoubted drain of the person who contributes nothing. I was reminded of this with a little bank holiday broadsheet reading as captured in the above screenshot. Now, I'm seldom one

Agitation Issue Alert

I recently found out the term for the classic snag of when a small item of laundry fails to come out clean. The cause tends to be an 'agitation issue'. Which occurs when say, a sock, ends wound up inside another garment and as a result cannot receive the required