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sport & selling

A collection of 408 issues

Football Team Misery And Your Prospect Urgency

A remarkable 13,000 football fans were recently tracked over three years. The idea being to see how they reacted to theresults of theteam they followed. Professor Peter Dolton of Sussex University found that defeat hits us harder than victory. Double hard, in fact. When their team lost supportersexperienced miserytwice

Patience Putting Probability

Journeyman golfer Shaun Micheel was a surprise 2003 major [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6853-2003Aug17.html] winner. I caught him punditing during the 2018 Masters. When breeze curtailed scoring at Augusta during the second round’s afternoon, he suggested players ought follow his tailor-made hendiatris [http://salespodder.com/can-you-use-the-gmail-app-pitch/

Who Or What Is Your Difference Maker?

Watching an absorbing EPL fixture, at half-time I’d normally zone out from the pundits. So hats off to Owen Hargreaves. The story of the game in particular was that favourites and UCL chasing Manchester Untied went two down by early in the second forty-five at relegation threatened Crystal Palace.

Your Reducer To Halt Opposition Attack

Another happy find from Football punditry. This time via a chopper centre-half that used to revel in pinching the lovehandles of opposing strikers. He referred to the importance of putting in a “reducer”. To him, this is a tackle you make that stops the opposition mounting an attack. It’s

Better Learners Make Better Players

In the week the first tranche of European qualifiers for next year’s football’s world cup are all confirmed, I saw a touch of insight into the English FA. It emerged when presenting Booby Charlton with the honour of naming a training pitch after him at the no-expense-spared St

How The Experienced Sales Manager Takes Over A New Team (Football)

Two similar stories crossed my screens this week about winning ways to take over a new team. Today’s is from the all-conquering Arsenal football club under the early Wenger years. Tomorrow’s is from a supposed ‘turnaround’ at denim pioneers Levi’s. Football team owners are forever changing their

Event Prep Like A Sports Commentator

After catching possibly the only interesting moment to happen in F1 motor racing live this year – the start of the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix (thank you, rain) – when searching for “reaction” [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/41299491] after the paint had (maybe) dried (namely hoping for a Vettel

Warning: Your Sales League Table Could Be Demotivating

Well. Hardly news if you’re bottom of the log. Yet recent reminders of salesroom scoreboards (from diverse as Wales [http://salespodder.com/modern-call-centre-still-likes-old-school-scoreboards/] and a Hollywood Wolf [http://salespodder.com/at-least-the-bad-guys-from-wolf-of-wall-st-love-their-scoreboards/] ) shine my spotlight on what exactly is it that gets written on the whiteboard day in, day out.

Host Olympian Bid Success Tip For Framing Your Bid

The politics of global sport and their major event hosting are so murky you feel they’d make a Bond villain look positively kindergarten. We seem to have hit an epoch where each big flagship tournament has only one bidder. Such are reputations for irrecoupable costs, citizen disapproval and years

World Cup Winning Coach Knows Talent Alone Is Not Enough

Sir Clive Woodward knows a great deal about preparing both championship teams and individual superstars. Recently he ‘chaired [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040zf09]‘ a BBC broadcast hour with a tearaway footballer. One that doesn’t necessarily fit the stereotype and is currently undertaking a degree in philosophy. (26mb