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

Who Rehearses Leaving A Message

I made a call across time zones. Deep into night-time where I was. The intended recipient unavailable. Their encouragement to leave a voice message kicked in. I duly spoke. When finished, I noticed first that the entire dial had taken less than sixty seconds. Then it quickly hit me. I

The Adidas Trap-Check Your Pitch Does Not Echo An Ordinary Figurative Mark

A long-running retail intellectual property dispute made headlines this week. A brand that long ago (including with their 80s Patrick football boots) used two stripes as their branding, objected to Adidas trying to expand the scope of their three-striped design overlay. The ruling found against [https://news.sky.com/story/

Cambridge Climate Repair Centre

> ♫ We’ve no insurance policy in place Like putting up mirrors in outer space Cloud ships spray into the sky Expect a miracle standing by Geoengineering’s magic bullet Cut emissions could just do it Can Green Tax maintain wealth Open commitment, not by stealth ♪♪ [https://www.mirror.co.

Opening Up A Tricky Prospect The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Way

Salvador Dali, Rudolf Nureyev, John Paul Getty. All almost impossible to get interviews which Lynn Barber [https://twitter.com/lynnbaba?lang=en] managed to famously nail, long-form, to forge a fearsome reputation. I heard her recount many remarkable career highlights, during which she revealed how she opened up people to

Red Thread Selling

For some they’re considered interchangeable. Yet is it a touch contrary or too much of a stretch to say a red thread is the communications hue of what a golden thread is to overall business togetherness? A golden thread the cultural values that bind those in a winning corporation;

Look At The Facts

[https://twitter.com/benshapiro] > “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” As I blog, the ‘pinned tweet’ of a popular American of The Right. Often extremely entertaining, even if his overly religious views may taint his main thrust. I lately learn also popular with those of the non-Left emerging

Bumper Sticker Framing

“the President got off on a technicality” How opponents of My Boy Donny wail. Given Special Prosecutor Mueller’s eventual public pronouncements this week. His lengthy investigation into Russian meddling in the most recent American race for the White House long done. Apparently, “charges were not an option” open to

Assessing Team Player Performance The F1 Raw Pace Way

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2019/05/14/ranking-f1-teams-five-rounds-gap-mercedes-ferrari-large/] In the Spring of 2019, Formula One motor racing showed the surprise of Mercedes domination over the expected yet unmaterialised Ferrari challenge. (Viewers switch off in droves.) I saw this reported upon with the ten teams ranked [https://www.telegraph.

Shut Off Your Porv?

> hallelujah, they’ve shut off the PORV This was a decisive line of dialogue I remember from a terrific 1980s documentary. It was on America’s East Coast Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident]. Now reaching its 40th anniversary. News

Protective Landscape Furniture In Place Yet?

2016 was a chastening year for planners of public events, but most of all, 98 families who suffered the loss of a loved one, mowed down by a terrorist truck. Bastille Day, Nice and a Christmas Market, Berlin. Atrocities that year – and subsequent London bridge attacks mere months later – accelerated