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quirky

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

Taxing Pareto Alternative

It's long been commonplace when looking for a way to slice something that masquerades as or even may actually be data to use Pareto. The famed 80/20 rule. Sometimes cited using either side's ratio of 4 in 5 or 1:5. Yet different slices are available. Reminders of the

Primacy vs Recency Debate

Covertly yet candidly, crazily yet cleverly, an American Presidential debate just took place. At the unseemly juncture of over four months before the vote. Earlier than any had ever been televised before. In the light of all this, it was easy to let slip by one key Sales conundrum. One

This Time Next Year of The Miracle Question

In British culture, this is a loaded phrase. From a classic, wildly popular sitcom. "This time next year, we'll be millionaires!". It captures the essence of perpetual optimism to always keeping going and striving, no matter the knocks, setbacks and hurdles you encounter and without regard to the lowly place

What Would Your Superscript Symbol Be?

HotCo° BigBrand™ cleverbuggers³ I came across a possible suspect the other day, so duly looked them up online. I was struck by how after their company name, their idents placed a suffixed glyph high-right after the text of organisation name. I'd not seen the particular treatment quite like that which

Tidy Desk Police Can Make Your Quota Unreachable

Messy desks have been discussed recently in areas way beyond office manager chat groups. Courtesy the recently shoehorned in minority owners of Manchester United Football Club. Regularly atop the table of most valuable teams in all of world sport, it has if not a new broom, then a dust pan

The Mirage of Stability

I hate hearing pleas for stability by those running companies. Perhaps even worse, are those vying for our votes who claim they aim to bring such vaunted calm to our lives. I cannot think of anything worse for humanity. Nor your personal place within. It is a construct so beloved

Quinquennial Workers Productivity Survey Selling Link

"In the last five years, have you taken the initiative of making improvements to work processes?" That, I learn from The Times columnist and worker's friend, Harry Wallop, is what he considers the most revealing question asked of around 3,000 random British workers - not bosses, note - in

Welcome to the Pudding Club

"It is over dessert that the best stories are often told, in the literal and metaphorical sense. Be it the last seconds of a long phone call that produces the headline statement or, and this is more enjoyable, the killer anecdote or opinion shared over an even longer lunch." Words

Meeting Room Alts Better Than Big Bank

Here's a finance boss that the man on the street can have little respect for. Like so many (all?) of his ilk. Five years and done. Just announced stepping down from his role as chief exec of HSBC bank. Yes, I am now long anti-bankster in the extreme. Yet this

Service Fruitful Cost

Ferruccio Lamborghini on customer service: pic.twitter.com/WWzh7lVYPi — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 11, 2024 Sixty seconds of mid-Twentieth Century word-of-mouth testimonial thinking. Yes. So much easier when dealing with a top-of-the-range, most expensive yet hugely admired, luxury good. I saw this online the same day the big boss of