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quirky

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

Channel Business TV To Broadcast New Year's Trends

[http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000468127] CNBC this holiday week show a good feature. They call it The 2016 Playbook. Each sector reporter delivers their snappy top three trends for next year. The first was “fast, fresh and funky food trends to watch in 2016” [http://video.cnbc.com/

Barman Bulges Tips With One Coin Trick

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/12/stagsheadspoons.jpg] A festive diversion. Every so often I see a retail sales tactic that has a sibling in our realm. One Cape Town bar, untouched in years, has two sets of drinkers. A few diehard locals mingle with preloading backpackers from

Bridge Of Spies Negotiation Masterclass

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/12/bridgeofspies-1or5.jpg] Spielberg Cold War drama Bridge Of Spies. Tom Hanks’ insurance lawyer James Donovan becomes hostage exchange negotiator of legend. Here’s three tips gleaned from his approach to trades for us in the solution selling sphere. Salespeople are, in my

London Dirty Burger Price List Tip

[www.eatdirtyburger.com/] Trendy Shoreditch. In need of feed. An artisanal looking small shop, opposite the train station. Next to a bar that impressively sported a sign, “hipsters must be accompanied by a responsible adult”. I saw the server was also the cook. Intrigued, I asked her what the burger

Flood Defence Return

Another year, another submerged part of England. This time the Lake District. Fallout was quick. After 2009 suffered “once-in-100-yr” rains in the region, £38m got spent on new barriers. They were even apparently over-engineered to withstand a water-level rise to 7.2m. Yet walls crumbled when faced with a “country

Passion A Potential Gig Economy Crossover

[http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/29/future-of-work-gig-sharing-economy-juggling-jobs] My snap above quotes Robin Chase. She co-founded Zipcar, her current book Peers Inc at the vanguard of the “sharing” – or the more funky label, “gig” – economy. Marketplaces abound fortaskers and requesters to mingle in the human cloud. Having purchased through

Spotting Client Divorce Signals

Much media mumbling this week around an algorithm that predicts your partner’s propensity for imminent divorce. You make separate plans. They change once shared passwords. Unsocial business meetings. The list goes on. 42% of marriages currently end in divorce. Is yours next? One supposed sage hit the airwaves on

What Buyers Read Between The Lines Of Your Menu

I do like examining menus when eating out. I often blog on what solution selling can take from dining (and drinking) option presentation. So I was delighted to come across insights from a professional food reviewer [http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/18/how-to-choose-a-great-restaurant-from-reading-the-menu] . His noble aim; help us

Syrian Statement Selling Septuple

UK PM Cameron led debate in the Mother of Parliaments Thursday. The imminent decision around whether to bomb inside Syria unsurprisingly garnered blanket media coverage. I noted that he framed his argument for this“highly complex situation” according to seven questions. In part this seems inspired by the Foreign Affairs

Trident Handout Weapon

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/johnwoodcockmptridentsubcard.jpg] Stop the press. Someone from The Left makes a winning pitch [http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/submarine-shaped-leaflets#.diG7JXdKpP]. Who says bipartisanship is dead? I was delighted to see this deployment by John Woodcock MP [https://twitter.com/JWoodcockMP](for Barrow