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quirky

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

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

Your Zero Coppock Millionaire Prime Buy Time

[/content/images/wordpress/2015/05/whowantstobeamillionaire-salespitchfirstquestion-player-salespodder.jpg] A while back I helped a firm’s large-scale technology sales. It became apparent that a new way to class suspect buying likelihood existed. Their target market was turbulent. Lots of M&A activity. Big re-structures aplenty. To frame this new view,

Is Your Smart Reply Better Than Gmail's?

Some labour-saving devices change your world. The spork. Spreadsheet auto-sort. A wife. Others are doomed to the robot-controlled dustbin of failure. Gmail’s ‘smart reply’ feels like the latter. It’s invaded my mobile inbox [https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/17/google-brings-smart-replies-to-gmail-on-ios-and-android/] since the Summer. And annoys me each time

Figonymy

Nearly every country on earth is named after one of four things [https://qz.com/1070266/the-name-of-a-country-can-only-really-mean-one-of-four-things/] is an article from Quartz that sped across feeds lately. It does briefly hold attention. Anyone with a passing interest in the etymology of where names originate does think a little about their

How Noting Your Clients' Windscreen Phenomenon Lets You Splat Competing Bugs

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4998832/The-flying-insects-planet-depends-plummets-75.html] How’s this for a mainstream media headline [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4998832/The-flying-insects-planet-depends-plummets-75.html] ; > Where have all our bugs gone? The flying insects the planet depends on plummet by three-quarters sparking fears of ecological armageddon The story

Shortening Song Intros And Your Pitch

I read yet another so-called entertainment thinkpiece mourning the passing of the ‘great epic song intro [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41500692]‘. The story goes that no pop songs have intros any more. Everyone starts off by singing rather than instrumental crashing-cum-noodling. With the listener all the poorer for