Topic

quirky

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

Charging Hack Hammock

> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CfL9Y_GIU7Z/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] A post shared by salespodder (@salespodder) [https://www.instagram.com/p/CfL9Y_GIU7Z/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] Oh how we mocked. Then thought back to

If Your Job Could Have One App

> What's a startup that you want to manifest into existence? — TechCrunch+ (@TechCrunchPlus) June 10, 2022 [https://twitter.com/TechCrunchPlus/status/1535257729161478144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Now there's a question. The s'posed gorilla in the room of daily tech co reporting may have fallen

Seneca Evolution

> Luck is a place where Planning meets Opportunity. That was a phrase writ large on a flipchart at the start on one of my first ever days of solution sales training. It has become core to my approach. I do believe in Luck, as such, as part of this

Monster Doctor Case Wall

This past month Netflix released a 90min documentary on the harrowing crimes against humanity, morality and security of an American fertility doctor. Fathering perhaps over one hundred children through his Indianapolis artificial insemination clinic, using his own sperm. Suffice to say there is allegedly not a mother who appears to

What's Hypothecated Here?

> To hypothecate is to pledge money by edict to a specific purpose. A word used around government debate and pitch where politicians ring-fence certain tax income for a particular, often pet, project. (Not always of the pork-barrel [https://salespodder.com/pork-barrel-projects/] kind note, although 'earmarking' is perhaps

Logo Business Card Trademark

I came across this quote through citing from a fashionista at a graduation ceremony. From a self-styled America influencer, labelling himself a brand strategist. Around since at least 2015, you can see why it enjoyed a viral half-life beyond the norm. Your smile is your logo Your personality is your

Can You Reach Your Prospect's First Friend?

> People don't change their opinions when supplied with a potent argument. They change their minds when their friends change their minds. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 22, 2022 [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1517486506079838208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] At time of blogging, 236 of the twitterati pitched

Client Lifetime Somatic Mutations

What determines any particular species of animal's lifespan? From a team of Cambridge scientists, we learn the previous theory - body size as proportional to life expectancy, known as Peto's Paradox - must now evolve. The new hypothesis being that; > "lifespan is inversely proportional

Vranyo in Sales

vranyo :: the Russian tactic of saying outrageous things and expecting to get away with them. Here's another definition, via glossophilia [https://glossophilia.org/2018/09/vranyo-a-previously-untranslatable-russian-word/] ; > “You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but

Billion-Dollar Tender Fiasco

The UK public sector somehow presided over a shocking IT procurement. The postal service bought a new accounting system. For the independent 'moms 'n pops' shopkeepers who ran small sub-post offices. The result? “the worst miscarriage of justice in recent British legal history". After a string