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quirky

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

Should We Suggest The Architect's Dream Scheme?

It’s a game played every First Meeting. What would their ideal, perfect, magical purchase entail? In long(ish) form, you hear words uttered something akin to; “If you could have everything and anything, what would your solution look like?” I recently learned that those fancy architects have a name

3 Sales Tips From Budding Nation Branding Boom

I recently trawled through a (disappointingly partial – to the Left) so-called ‘long read’ on what should have been a fascinating (and more balanced) insight into the nascent Nation Branding [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/07/nation-branding-industry-how-to-sell-a-country] industry. I did though, manage to rescue a trio of pertinent solution

Where's Your Even Posher Product

[http://www.benedictsofwhalley.co.uk/] A weekend brunch in England’s scenic Ribble Valley. My pleasure being the delicious “Bacon & Black Pudding Rosti served on a bed of spinach & topped with poached egg”. Alongside an extra side of – how could you not add it on – fried bread. It

Less Is More Sweet 'not Sour Ben Franklin

When you feel like Mr Creosote, as the final sweet selection arrives after the most filling of multiple course chinese banquet, here from Singapore’s Sentosa Island. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used the above pic when helping an Asian tech team fine tune their pipeline management. We aimed to make their funnel

Where Our Selling Should Heed Screenwriter Learnings

Here’s a quartet of winning insights from the world of screenwriting; They are that we should; focus on endloading, unveil the carnival of opinion, know who is the third and beware dilettantes. I came across them after hearing the always entertaining London film reviewer, Jason Solomons [http://www.jasonsolomons.

Disarming An Alarming Prediction

I’m no Denier. Far from it. Yet I cannot understand the slant of truly zealous eco-warriers. Made-up stats and preaching portents of armageddon surely hinder, not help, their worthy cause. Then again, nor do I follow how Big Oil and their brethren fail to see what is coming and

Your Bordeaux Problem

In this Remembrance week I was moved to watch a gripping doc [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i4um2] on the most “courageous and imaginative” Allied raid of WWII. Under enormous pressure from the German fleet, we simply had to resolve “The Bordeaux Problem”. That was the French city the Nazis

Your Carluccio MoFMoF

I was a fan of bubbly Italian telly chef Antonio Carluccio and his eponymous restaurants as soon as they appeared in London around two decades ago. The large presence who single-handedly sought to improve upon what he dismissed as Britalian restaurant blandness. With his sad passing aged 80 [http://www.

Advancement From Negativity

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJH4A6h4NI] Sir Kenneth Branagh anchors and directs the update of the 1974 all-star film Murder on the Orient Expressbased on the 1934 Agatha Christie novel. Its release came at the time of a horrifying wave of harassment and worse inside Hollywood becoming public. On

Does Your Recipe Promote Oyster Vocab

I’m okay with oysters. I don’t actively seek them out. Yet have thoroughly enjoyed them all over the world. From New York’s dedicated Grand Central bar [http://www.oysterbarny.com/] bearing their name, to the buzzing Knysna Festival [http://www.oysterfestival.co.za/] in their honour, to