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quirky

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

Free The Albatross Around Your Net

How do the non-pros sell their stories? Sadly, mostly badly. So I was delighted when I heard a green campaign buck the trend. 20 April 2017, Radio 4’s institution that is PM. Highlighting conservation efforts with a “glass half-full mindset”. The intro report quoted mankind’s impact on avian

You, Your Prospect & A Snapchat Streak

A snapchat streak [https://www.bustle.com/articles/162803-what-is-a-snapchat-streak-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-snapstreaks] . Or even, a snapstreak. If you’ve had conversation grunts from a teen lately, you’ll know what this means. And how they simply cannot break one. Whatever. You snapchat with someone every single day, back and forth. Who knows if

Making A Pig's & Dog's Breakfast Of Your Competition

London 2017. Snap Election. Catching opponents on the hop, Prime Minister Theresa May. In the immediate scramble for opinions, facts and outright gossip that enveloped the Westminster bubble during the first of seven surprise campaign weeks, despite wide ranging attempts to the contrary, one single issue dominates. Brexit. As the

Computational Gastronomy Dealonomy

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4397610/Experts-claim-roast-beef-best-served-CHOCOLATE.html] Lamb & mint sauce goats cheese. Coffee & cream garlic. Roast beef & gravy chocolate. Established food pairings can be bettered. Say scientists looking for links between chemical compounds. Ones our species’ tastebuds have somehow overlooked. They’ll be putting spaghetti

Oil Those Wheels The Ambassador Way

Today, a prince [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince]ly Machiavelli style tidbit blog. After bellicose soundbite diplomacy between Russia and America over the latest Syrian astonishments tilts slightly towards seeking ‘trust and progress’, I heard commentary from a former UK Ambassador to Damascus (2000-3), Henry Hogger. A man

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.