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O-oh. [https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/then_you_were_a_prospect_and_now_you_are_a_client_joke] Found myself at some pearly gates. Weird place. Didn’t feel real, obvs. Some old chap, perhaps with a long white beard, to a background of harps,

Sales floors around the world have various meeting rooms sprouting around their edges. What they are called brings to mind the history of why countries got their name [http://salespodder.com/figonymy/]. Famous people from the arts and sciences. Towns or landmarks in the place of company operation. Product labels.

[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/18/stat_of_the_year/] Statisticians. Oh dear. They’ve a bad rep. Deservedly. For the second time during 2017, stattos have made news. Earlier in the year, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority no less embarrassed himself as utterly inept by

My heart sank the other day. When I heard that exact phrase of this post’s title. It was in a restaurant. A touristy kind of place for casual yet slightly upmarket dining, in a location to die for, fairly unencumbered by competition. In the area behind me, an impromptu

Fake News outlets are still in a right old tizz, I see. “It’s the story that has dominated Donald Trump’s presidency, but it’s complicated.” So ‘reports’ the BBC. I forced myself to battle through the tut-tuts and click on. Driven not by the draw of this particular

Here’s precise wording around a financial amount I was recently privy to on a message group; > …they gave an exact figure like 1,813,459 to make it look properly thought out Followed by a dismissive assessment of the reality of such accurate workings actually having taken place.

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/05/rotterdamdiamondflats.jpg] Thankfully the land of my birth have moved on from the annoying and unhelpful Hard/Soft textural prefixes when trying to sum up two opposing options. Yet I fear we’re heading somewhere equally misleading when I hear countries as

Redlines. That Millennial expression so beloved of people nowadays to state where their position cannot move beyond. > ♪♬ I’m dreaming of a right Brexmas, just like the one I voted for ♫ Yes, it’s that seemingly perennial favourite, Brexit. And a nation can rejoice. Or breathe a sigh of

Libertarian paternalism. That’s the fancy name for nudging. The science behind helping people make better decisions. Whether it be the famous example of a fly tattooed onto Schipol airport urinals to keep gents toilets cleaner, or the auto-enrolment into pension schemes providing precious extra retirement benefit, positive stories abound

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/06/clarkes-menu-inner-header.jpg] Here’s a header box that greeted me as I opened out a menu at one of central Cape Town’s new trendy spots on the rapidly improving Bree Street. I instantly thought menu engineers would explode seeing this. Talk