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A borehole salesperson in a drought ravaged town shared with me their favourite, as they put it, ‘sizzle over sausage’ line. They’d learned to check out the state of the prospect garden. It would be singed. But where tell-tale signs revealed a keen horticultural pride then, rather than labour

So a cafe in a business district I’ve been around always serves up its (often excellent) fayre in bowls. Even a sarnie. The other day I ordered the burger. Which arrived in a large enamel baking tray tin. I would have much preferred a flat dish. No-one could explain

> “placing undue emphasis on petty details; petty or trivial” This week the Donny ‘trial’-fixated web is alive with the word pettifogging. It is too a slightly archaic, more legalese perhaps, term used to describe a quibble about petty points; > “without lifetime careers to preserve, congressmen would be

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/12/done-doing.jpg] So the other day I was party to a discussion on monthly management meetings. What structure they should follow was a keen topic of debate. People often expect there to be some magic form you can download and use. Fill

Plenty of reminiscing around the twenty-year anniversary of the ‘beating’ of the Millennium Bug. The turn of the century curse on computer systems worldwide rendering Y2K potentially doomsday. I recall similar [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8400300.stm] a decade back too. Among the historical memory lanes

Who says the media isn’t forever listicle dumbing down? Lucky we have sites that report the innards of Reddit. Specifically, curating inventions [https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/28-things-that-should-be-on-every-street-corner-458810/] we really, really need in our lives. The above parking lines on walls surely a true winner. The number of times a

Here’s a fascinating paragraph from an internal Facebook memo. Labelled as Zuckerberg’s right-hand man by the media, Andrew Bosworth also posted publicly on their own investigation into “2016 US Presidential campaign interference”: > [The Trump campaign] weren’t running misinformation or hoaxes. They weren’t microtargeting or saying

> I added sea-sand to the latest batch of peanut butter and labeled it enriched with organic marine silica. It’s selling like mad. An opening (made-up, I think) sample from a broadsheet columnist [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/words-mean-what-ad-agency-wants-them-to-40215654] bemoaning us trampled consumers being deliberately ‘caught for

More Resolutioning fluff yes, but one that could turn into tasty Sales foodstuff. One such ‘sage’ writing on the dailymail [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7822329/Lifecoach-Amana-Walker-reveals-New-Years-resolutions-fail.html] suggests that a mere one in twelve stick to their New Year commitments, with only one in five still sticking to

The world’s most successful concert arena was not always such the beacon of popularity and profitability. London’s North Greenwich regeneration in time for 1999’s New Year’s Eve celebrations got mixed reviews back then. Even James Bond opening credit stardom from The World Is Not Enough couldn’