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Rewire Greenwire Hotwire

I hear of a plan to switch the UK’s gas supply towards renewables. The idea is to ‘greenwire’ [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7959041/Energy-regulator-Ofgem-announces-plans-10m-electric-vehicles-road-10-years.html] the country. Not only applauded on environmental grounds, but also for creating a word with which to label the initiative. One which

Philosophy Maintenance Pitch

Repeating mistakes of the past, a tiny elite cushioning themselves at the expense of the rest, ‘othering’ the vast majority as perennial victims. A culture that perhaps describes many a corporation. Especially ones resistant to your Proposal of progress. Yet in this case, it refers to the eggshells that is

Legends Menu Premium Option

Sadly this bar’s service did not tally with the idea behind this wonderful piece of menu engineer [https://salespodder.com/?s=%22menu+engineer%22]ing I came across. Near the top of an extensive drinks list, in a reversed colours box, and a title including the word LEGENDS, comes

3 Sales Reminders From 2011 Movie Contagion

With the latest super-virus threatening to decimate humanity hailing from central China’s Wuhan, the world’s apparently been busy re-watching a film from a decade earlier; Contagion [https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-contagion-pushed-hollywood-to-get-science-right] . coronavirus A troop of Hollywood A-Listers battle against the outcomes after [spoiler alert:] a bat disturbed from

Bright Lawn Sizzle

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

Are You Serving In Bowls?

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

Lifting The Pettifog

> “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

Done, Doing

[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

Y2K Reminder On Hard vs Soft & Low-Risk Doomsters

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

Reveal Your Guidance

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