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[/content/images/wordpress/2020/07/brightside-lift-buttons-for-feet-400x260-1.jpg] How do you alone make your customer lives that little bit easier? In January I noted a similar collection [http://salespodder.com/reveal-your-guidance/] of pics (via Reddit) which also showed clever ways of helping with use of products, lauded as life changing. Six

I had the pleasure to sit next to a university lecturer once on a flight. A Project Management expert, no less. I divulged my frustration at the last minute merchant. Those fools who may have scaled vertiginous corporate levels, yet wrongly think their lack of time keeping and planning can

This is the formula from the book Inspiratorium by Anthony Tasgal [https://twitter.com/taswellhill]; > 1 part Failure + 1 part Naivety + 2 parts Surprise = Insight A big fan of formulae to get a Sales idea across. I also like use here of adding weighting to one of your ingredients.

What seller doesn’t love a site tour… Know how to use a warehouse trolley? You’d think it’d be pretty self-explanatory, wouldn’t you. Someone with a career in procurement systems visited a bulging, busy food warehouse during lockdown. Although hopeful of insight to greater efficiencies, management apparently

The baying mob are on their cancelling march. Pitchforks in hand, charging through the cyber streets. Often through anonymous mobilising of a tiny group of intolerant belligerent extremists and witchfinder generals positioning themselves as the general public. Some targets perhaps worthy. Way too many others though – whether they be young

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/07/fish-postcard-crop-aadj.jpg] I heard a story about a New York lawyer. Proudly displaying a jokey framed pic behind him, above his desk. A fish with a hook in its mouth, alongside the slogan, ‘if I hadn’t opened my mouth I wouldn’

The world’s housing market is broken. Whether from an economy developed or developing. There are simply too many people chasing too few dwellings. More people born that can be coped with, less wanting to give up second homes or not able to move out or on. In England, a

One travesty of lockdown was the huge extra profits flowing to the supermarkets. These huge – in some cases global – mega-chains drive many unwelcome effects of Big Food. Whilst protesting the public should not be so squeamish as they supposedly drive prices down. A claim demolished by the reality of quality

I came across a fascinating piece of social media management. In this case, available on Twitter. It helps users avoid many of the ills which that platform seems to attract battering your mental wellbeing. In the worst case, the bombardment of abuse from bots, trolls or wumao (China’s 50