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quirky

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

Ignition For Your Sellernauts Lift Off

There’s a famous tale of involvement with which many moons ago I was regaled by a b-school lecturer. The way I first heard it, a manual labourer was busy scrubbing the outside of the Saturn V launch super-rocket with a long-handled brush. A passing dignitary asked what they were

Pod Lennon Wall

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon_Wall_(Hong_Kong) target=] Well done the people of Hong Kong. Peaceful protest (apart from when perhaps agent provocateurs infiltrated) saw the abandonment (for now) of a chilling human rights restricting Bill. Defiantly assembled vertical fields of sticky note mosaics [https://www.reuters.com/

The Hook Of A Restaurant Reviewer

[https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2019/may/18/jay-rayner-i-have-no-time-for-exclusionist-food-fads] I can be gripped by good reviewers. From captivating political sketch writers (Quentin Letts sadly currently neutered behind a paywall), to movie reviewers [http://salespodder.com/how-to-critique/] and the world of dining out assessors. From whom, Giles Coren has been a

Awkward Admire-Respect Competition Question Handling

> I respect his children. She’s a fighter. To change his mind. To [not] answer the question. The final two held their tv debate for the British Party of Government leadership vacancy Tuesday night. The last question from the audience; > What do you admire about each other? Immediately

Trial Shift Objection Handle

> What is this, a trial shift at Nandos? I can hear that said in meeting rooms throughout the land following the shocking revelations that retail, mainly food serving, operations are getting in teens only to discard them within hours for their next “costless” worker on the false promise of

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;