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You know the scene. Contract renewal time. Budgets must be re-submitted. Procurement rules demand re-tender. All preferred suppliers invited to bid. Whether incumbent or insurgent, I realise there’s a tactic you can pull from current UK general electioneering to potentially rise above the fray. It’s all about the

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/11/greatoffmenubrekkie.jpg] In an eaterie, (with the above pictured off-menu brekkie of grown-up chuckie eggs and soldiers), I overheard the owner ask one of her waitrons whether a new dish (a three cheese lasagne) had earned any compliments. The waitron wasn’t

So it’s General Election time in the country of my birth. Opposition candidates scramble to attend one of several “tv debates”. They are highly regimented. Each hopeful cut off should they dare to exceed their allotted time. Every such scrum seems to kick-off the same way. The sixty second

One trend that finally seems to be everywhere is the exploding “slash generation/the future of work”. Generation Forward Slashare people who eschew typical 9-5, sole employer status. Self-descriptions such as these I read in The Times now abound; cafe owner / festival organiser social entrepreneur / set builder musician / holiday lets

Pre-poll fervour continues to grip media monkeys in Blighty. With just six weeks to go, we’ve got hurriedly treated with a new canvassing device. The kitchen interview. Leaders now rush to portray themselves beside their sinks. One mistakenly chose to inhabit their second kitchen. Lucky them. Although not so

With the UK election just a few weeks away, here’s quite the funky forty seconds, hey. Skynews and (today’s) Budget mash-up. What it does show, is the mantra that the incumbent’s are repeating. Ad nauseam say the Opposition. Until the reality sinks in say those in power.

A pair of pop culture events have sparked my selling synapses this week. From an American courtroom emerged the baffling decision that Marvin Gaye’s sublime 1977 recording Got To Give It Up was shamelessly ripped off by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for their 2013 mega-hit, Blurred Lines. Yet

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/03/plancreatedo400x300.jpg] Here’s a winning Sales angle sparked from England’s current National Apprenticeship Week. One ‘advertising, creative and digital media talent’ initiative [www.creativepioneers.co.uk] joins the effort with a delightful play on established brain types. You probably know