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quirky

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

Do You Know What A Buyer Really Wants With Your CV?

Here’s a situation I was party to recently. Drafting the finalities of a Proposal. Surprisingly then asked by the ‘client collator’ to submit a CV. As is the modern way, it was via a sentence of terse text. The inexperienced seller grasps hold of such a bone. They rush

Spot Fake Sales The Facebook Way

[https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/04/a-new-educational-tool-against-misinformation/] Angela rejoice… In what seems to be roundly dismissed as vacuous pr, everyone’s favourite fake news purveyor, Facebook, this week prompts news feeding users [https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/facebook-puts-link-to-10-tips-for-spotting-false-news-atop-feed/] three times to note their ten tips for spotting “false

Prospect Pathways To Prosperity

Pathway is a term that’s reached many a Boardroom these past couple of years. I first noted it connected to clinical treatment. Now the word makes headlines courtesy of the moribund institution that is the EU. Given the tumult shearing through the organisation, one “leader” proposes a response to

Can The World's Best Selling Buddhist Monk's Slow Down Quicken A Sale

Haemin Sunim’s been doing the English telly studio sofa pr rounds. What a charming chap the Korean is. The clip I caught saw him get two old cynics meditating through the power of a smile then some ‘chanting’ of similar, positives phrases telling you to feel good about yourself.

Where's Your Prospect Project Dividend?

[https://www.changebritain.org/] Where’s that bus? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another news bulletin, another Westminster slanging match. Hear, hear. This one notable for the first time I heard the concept Brexit Dividend. From one of the revelling post-Maastricht “bastards”, no less. A nifty GIYF led me to the image up top.

Borrowing High Impact Turns Of Public Phrase

The land of my birth this week witnessed all sorts of political game playing. Around divorcing. Or perhaps more, the conscious uncoupling. During these rampant discussions surrounding separations, I noted a trio of soundbites got repeated plays on national media. First up, from a talking head that wished to point

How Could We Make It More Greek?

In a cafe talking through project details with someone, a lady close by was in a rush. Barely sipped her enormous smoothie, but suddenly had to go. Asking the manager for a takeaway cup, the apron-clad hipster went for a spot of client engagement. Or pulling. Either way, his chat

Cherish Early Brushes With Success

A definition, from photographer Erik Kessels; > “early brush with success” …aka… failure I was pleased to discover this slant from snatches of his Cape Town Design Indaba [http://www.designindaba.com/videos/conference-talks/erik-kessels-power-failure] presentation. Further digging uncovered a delightful book of photos. Failed It [https://www.creativereview.co.

The Perils Or Marvels Of Salesy McSalesface

[https://twitter.com/nasa] Nasa must have known what was coming. There’s potential for life in a Goldilocks Zone a mere 40 light years away. That’s 700,000 earth years at our present max travel speed. Around a star named Trappist (after the initials of the Chilean telescope

The Dox Trap

The latest eword. It came to mind from last week’s fruity Spook-y “whorehouse [http://salespodder.com/4-deal-intel-tips-from-secrets-spookmeister/]” wisdom. The definition pictured above hails from googling. Dox. A phonetic abbreviation of documents, as in docs (or even lifting from the dreaded Microsoft file extension, docx). The idea being that you