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The Never Cold Email

Often enjoying London's Harry Wallop Times consumer/workplace column, I was suitably pleased to read him hail the lost art of cold emailing. I cite one key case study paragraph; Hamish Thompson now lives in Tasmania after selling his successful public relations business in 2019. He worked with lots of

Pop Promos Still Liking Bland Meeting Room Settings

I'd not heard of this act either. Yet this latest track did have the kind of Jamie T first album vibe I so loved two decades back. As the latest in my occasional series on this trope, the video for Just Call Me has quite the conceit. Everyone our hero

On Leadership

Statecraft, A Journey, My Life Our Times, For The Record, Ten Years To Save The West. Five of the UK prime ministerial memoir titles over the past three decades. None of them to be ever read by me. Although that most recent last one might be worth a doomscroll chuckle.

Alpha Papa Boardroom Flipchart Skills

Aha! Alan Partridge hosting a siege became the radio DJ's first big screen outing in 2013. About fifteen minutes in, there's a scene we can call Boardroom. Our hero Alan bursts in to the management meeting of the new owners of his radio station. As seen up-top. Having told his

Google I/O Conference '23 Keynote Slides

My recent post brought about via a one-time slide maker for former ceo Eric Schmidt reminded me of a blog I posted five years back. Time for an update. As for the current chief exec, an ace presenter he is not. So you might say he needs his slidedeck to

Generation Hustle on Serviced Offices

Or as disgraced WeWork founder Adam Neumann likely never called them, co-working spaces. A concept far too old hat and concrete, which he quickly morphed into something altogether more ethereal. By way of example, here's a couple of his quotes from the Generation Hustle tv series of 2021; > "we're as

Susie Dent Sales Words of the Day

Any gameshow going since 1982 must be doing something right? British daytime telly staple Countdown features word-based quizzing. With expert 'adjudicator' adding considerable colour from 'Dictionary Corner'. Susie Dent in this slot enjoys quite the fanbase. Her twitter [https://twitter.com/susie_dent] feed features the addictive 'word of the

10 Sales Creativity Tips Via Cleese & Sutherland

A fascinating 50min podcast [https://aloadofbs.substack.com/p/john-cleese-and-rory-sutherland-on] featured comedy legend John Cleese with Nudger-in-chief Rory Sutherland talk through the vital conditions for creativity to shine. It struck me that if you swapped in terms from our Sales arena, much of their wisdom could be applied to how

ADAPT & Chink to Trust

I know. Ten minutes you might never get back. Yet this clip - smacking of a college project pre-dating at least 2012 - is a thing of satirical Sales beauty. Team Ramrod helpfully here provide 'Part IV' of their guide, Personal Selling: A Trust-Based Approach. Like all great sales techniques,

Wells Fargo Dirty Money

> ‘…damn right I ordered the Code Red’ The words from the denouement of the 1992 film A Few Good Men.Jack Nicholson’s colonel admits to the nods and winks and more that led to a soldier’s beating. I couldn’t help but remember this iconic movie moment phrase