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I ran a jovial meeting with a sailing-loving prospect once in the late 90s. Where I revelled in comparing the extra money my then software wonder would make the business owner after they’d bought it. At the end of year one, amounting to around “two-thirds of a yacht”. It

Thirty years on and the foundation of a former British Prime Minister releases a trove of personal papers. Among them [https://www.totalpolitics.com/articles/diary/zeitgeist-tape-how-thatcher-prepared-smash-hits-interview] , advice on the pop music trends of the day, alongside a copy of the typed out cribsheet of an ordinary, everyday basket of

I wandered through an exhibition of the latest business audio-visual kit. Instantly dazzled by looped kaleidoscopic footage teeming forth from every conceivable size of flatscreen magic. I discovered the sector’s concept of “digital blindness”. This is the problem of when every vendor or area in a retail space has

Lovin’ the fact that rank outsider, Prof Nudge, won this year’s Nobel economics prize. Proving perhaps that economists are as useless at predicting their own winners as they are our future prosperity. On top of such delicious sales weaponry as friction costs, another of the manifold gifts Dr Richard

Here’s some stats as plastered on the side of a conference wall. Talking about “collaboration” across multiple workplaces. The salesperson in situ informed me that 20% of workers spend 30% of their time working from home. I was reminded of another of these many figures, which suggested the happiest

Friction costs are a fascinating subset of a solution selling objection. I first came across a similar theme in my early career (when selling what today is termed ERP) with the taxing issue of legacy data. Replacing an old system with a new one often gave rise to the daunting

The snowball effect as it relates to consumer spending caught my attention due to media highlighting of ballooning personal debt. Its basis is that when people are confronted by an amount of borrowing that has spun out of control, dazzled in the lights of trying to clear their debts, they

[https://www.instagram.com/fastcompany/] Well. There’s many questions to consider here. Above is the published mockup US mag front cover, as taken from their instagram. The MOR album shoot portrait is of their founder. (& if you think that’s painful, you should see those of his younger

Two similar stories crossed my screens this week about winning ways to take over a new team. Yesterday’s is from the all-conquering Arsenal football club under the early Wenger years. Today’s is from a supposed ‘turnaround’ at denim pioneers Levi’s. So denim sales seriously declined around the

[http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_94.htm] I came across this time management sheet. I suspect it is not widely used. Yet I feel there might be a little something in this from a selling angle. An interruptions log [http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_94.htm]