Get turned on by fresh energy
Imagine if a new energy source meant energy suddenly got a lot cheaper. Would you get turned on by fresh energy enough to change your lifestyle?
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Go Screw the Pitch
No one ever sets out to screw the pitch or screw up their presentation. But so many people do because they don’t prepare properly and/or assume (falsely) what the audience wants. But for anyone who wants to screw the pitch (or for anyone who has suffered in the audience) here are my top 10 fulfilment…
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Commercial Comedy is Serious Business
As our plane readied for take off to Cape Town, the stewardess commenced the well rehearsed health and safety briefing. Little did we know that the airline’s approach to commercial comedy meant the ordinary was about to become extraordinary. “In the event of the cabin losing air pressure, oxygen masks will drop down from above…
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Effective Salespeople avoid Crap Meetings
Once upon a business life I self-published a ‘book’ for the caravan market. Knowing little about these boxes on wheels and kidding myself the product was half-decent, I led a telesales department (me) and phoned UK caravan outlets in search of orders. And then I thought I had struck gold…
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De-mystifying finance and making money | Get yourself the job you want... | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs | Understand yourself and read behaviour quickly
Achieving Millionaire Status
Salespeople regularly offered me lifts back in the eighties. It’s fair to say I enjoyed the banter. Their cars went faster too. London bound, one bright weekday winter’s morning, I was hitching a lift onto the M1. Without warning, a car was jamming on its brakes and pulling into the empty slip road ahead of…
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Recommended Reading for Ambitious Innovators
Reading should never be a guilty pleasure. But it can get that way if work pressures really grip and/or family demands mean those precious grains of free time are lost before sleep…
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Find New Business Ideas to (kick) Start your Business
If you read the post ‘How to Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time‘, you’ll be aware I recommended the ‘Springwise‘ website. It’s just one place to find new business ideas to kick-start your thinking and get your daily fix of innovative and entrepreneurial thoughts…
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Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time
Our planet hosts 4 billion people who scrape by on less than $2 a day. Yet, perverse as it may sound, 24 hours in a day is not enough time for many people who work in industrialised economies. Lack of time rather than lack of money is an increasingly common complaint amongst the 100,000 million…
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