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sport & selling

A collection of 402 issues

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

Performance = Capability x Behaviour

[https://twitter.com/CO3updates/status/835071891740164097] What a Series from the Land of the Long White Cloud. Rugby – sport – at its compelling best. In the aftermath of the strangely anticlimactic – and now perhaps never to be repeated – shared spoils, many words are spilled of vincible double world champions and Legend

Do Your Calls Pursue Race Words Focus

bangers and smash, surely not Andy Murray’s “race words”? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wimbledon Fortnight. Pimms, strawberries and bendy deadlines. As an Englishmen whom appreciates tennis but laments the inordinate time commitment it commands, like my compatriots I couldn’t help but be aware of tabloid editor catnip, wild card Katie Boulter

Lions Laws

What a series. The mouth-watering decider comes Saturday. The combined British & Irish Lions are in New Zealand. Where rugby is life. Building up to this toughest of tours, once again fans hear about that wonderfully triumphant trip against another team of imposing World Champs, S Africa, from twenty years back.

The School Assembly Turn

I suffered the typical surface scraping of an evening radio football talk show. This time putting to right the fact that no English manager has won the EPL, and there seems an absence of any likely to come through and take the game by storm. Newspaper columnists, administrators, coaching badge

Message Clarity Check via Tennis Grudge Match

[http://tennis.life/2017/05/08/grudge-enthralling-tennis-bouchard-sharapova/] I had the unusual pleasure of watching a women’s tennis tournament second round contest in full this week. All three hours of a captivating Monday-night thriller. Madrid’s clay court battle was hyped up as the opponents had engaged in well publicised

The Essence Of Selling From Heavyweight Champion Of The World

Joshua-Klitschko. A classic heavyweight bout. In front of a whopping 90,000 crowd. A sensation is born. During the glowing media plaudits after, one seasoned hack quoted Jack Johnson, America’s first black champ a century ago. Talking about how the elder statesman surprised commentators by boxing unexpectedly different, with