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At Least The Bad Guys From Wolf Of Wall St Love Their Scoreboards

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/01/wolfofwallst-whiteboard1-400x192.jpg] Oscar nominated The Wolf Of Wall Street. Not only is it at least 45 minutes too long (which could easily be cut from the movie with sensible editing) but it is also shamefully light on the “cautionary” and “redemption” angles

Warning: Do Not Use Wolf Of Wall St Call Script

> Sound Fair Enough? That was one potential title for this blog. It’s from the Leonardo DiCaprio starring, Martin Scorsese directed, movie, The Wolf Of Wall Street. It follows a whitecollar criminal, imprisoned for his stockbroking illegalities. And this phrase appears his preferred closing line. Twenty minutes in, we hear

The One Single Wolf Of Wall Street Sales Tactic You Can Safely Use

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/01/wolfofwallst-sell-me-this-pen-nzl.jpg] The first of a trio of posts triggered by this film, up for gongs at this weekend’s Oscars. It features a pair of scenes where DiCaprio’s character demands, “sell me this pen”. The end sequence finds a trio

3 Sales Takeaways from Youtility by Jay Baer

An unusual book review now. I guess it loosely comes from the genre known as ‘inbound marketing’. Whoa! I can hear your screams. What is a salesy guy doing reading Marketing? Is it a case of ‘know thine enemy’ you ask? Am I getting into bed with the devil? Well.

Adman Selling Lessons From His Car Boot

The often entertaining Maggs On Media recently interviewed a Joburg based adland big cheese. Reg Lascaris started his own agency as the ‘schmoozer’ alongside his creative partner without an office. All they had was his bright yellow Toyota Corolla. They told clients it was their ‘mobile pitch unit’ and let

Are These Really The Best 10 Sales Books You Must Read?

[/content/images/wordpress/2013/10/future-publishing-best-50-books-mag-cover.jpg] Well, no. But according to a glossy [http://www.amazon.com/Best-Business-Books-Future-Series/dp/B00EA7YYZG] I read, published this year, these are their ten must-reads for any aspiring superseller; 1. Secrets of closing the sale Zig Ziglar 2. The perfect pitch Jon Steel 3.

The Jelly Effect Andy Bounds

Here’s a book that cost me thirteen quid in an airport bookstore, not long after it was published in 2007. (The cover also says US$25). As the saying often goes, you pays your twenty dollars, spend your half-dozen hours and hope for one key must-do to take into

Sales Source Inc Blog

I’ve long enjoyed travelling around America accompanied by magazines like Fast Company and Inc. Yet I’m baffled as to how such a pair of publications so embedded in promoting our new connected digital age can fail to come alive on the screen. Their online servings can bewilderingly lack

Where Are The Killer Sales Apps?

[/content/images/wordpress/2013/05/docstoc-sales-techniques-and-training-secrets-app-frontpage-400wide.jpg] One night off, I decided to check out the world of apps for the wannabe sales scholar. I tapped in the key word “sales” into my appstore. 2,480 search results got returned. On the day, the top app on the list was

Dan Pink To Sell Is Human

A Sales book in the number one slot? I gotta read this! That’s what I was thinking in a recent airport bookshop I went through. Dan Pink’s latest was the business bestseller. Having enjoyed his TED talks, I was ready to roundly applaud anyone bringing proper selling to