Topic

quirky

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

What Makes You Comfortable?

According to a survey just conducted in England by one of the world's Big Banks, the salary you need to be 'comfortable' is staggering. £213,000. That's almost double what the lower threshold of the country's Top One Percent earn (at 1.

Swaps for Change

Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Wednesday 26 March https://t.co/GpS5H21HER pic.twitter.com/Dky7LqVem5 — Financial Times (@FT) March 25, 2025 Dirty word, 'change'. From my earliest cubrep days, it was impressed upon me by the experienced sages around my first salesteam

Countering Competitor Canard

"It reminds me of the time I helped plan the Moon Landings whilst producing one of David Bowie's albums and launching the Big Mac." I chuckled reading this comment the other day. One of many all along similar lines. Deriding the plausibility of a mainstream media

Next Word Leap

In the rarefied air of the AI tech bros, the recent astonishing entry of a Chinese ex-stock-trader predictor turned bot-supreme punctured the bubble. Cheap as chips. As it (almost) turned out. Despite initial bargain basement costing sleights, the achievement of DeepSeek on a comparative shoestring has the current self-appointed sector

Mentionitis Macbeth

Here's quite the concept. What a so-called 'relationship expert' suggests are one of six signs of cheating [sub'n piece]; 'If your partner develops 'mentionitis' about a particular colleague, perhaps saying things about their personal life that suggest their conversations have become

Change what you can. Accept what you cannot.

Summary advice from broadsheet columnist investor, Tom Stevenson. Revealing his general theme whilst 'Trump bump turns to Trump slump'. Which, his proffered crunched numbers claim, will be merely the blip of required correction. Haven't we all seen (not just) salespeople whirl in the maelstrom of anxiety

Lying Rocks?

“You can lie about rocks, but the rocks don’t lie” Apparently old wisdom from the mining trade. Given renewed breath following one 'half-trillion' "rare earths and minerals" deal you might have read about lately. Indeed, supposedly inside sources suggest all is not what it seems.

Visualising Past The Sale

Fancy this office view? It's a pretty decent idea for an ad. One likely to be seen around the globe. Yet it is not just office space vendors that can lose sight of this. What will our prospects see once they've become our customer? Can we

Sell Me The Dream

Friday morning on the airwaves I heard 'Imran' win five thousand of some local pesos. As part of a promo, his challenge was to ring in to a radio show and pitch some kind of ice bath plunge thang. "What are you selling?" Asked the ringmaster,

The Unagenda'd Sales Meeting

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gapingvoid Culture Design Group (@gapingvoid) For any Sales meeting, having an agenda is best-practice. My hunch though, is that only less than one-in-ten ever get one drawn up. Starting off with a vibe of, 'let's just have a