The problem with hamsters, gerbils and other things that scurry is that right about the time you finish paying for the 4 km of plastic tubing and the special organic food, they drop dead. Likely of exhaustion. Then you get to spend Sunday night having the Circle-of-Life talk with an inconsolable five-year-old, instead of watching […]
The Favour of a Reply is Requested– Why We Should Start Loving Email Again
Do you remember when email was invented? I don’t have any specific memory of the day it turned up, like magic, on my computer at work, but I am fairly certain it was a matter of minutes before I joined every other marketer on the planet getting very excited about the possibilities of the medium. […]
Why You Need to Stop Publishing Your Newsletter
Years ago I worked with a sales administrator who had a hoarding problem. Not the scary kind where she had to fight off her 300 feral cats to use the toaster; the pernicious power-grabby kind where corporate goodies like product samples, trinkets, office supplies and promo materials were kept carefully locked up and doled out […]
Four Ways to Get Sales Off Your Back and Out Selling
Last week I gave you a small song to sing at the end of the quarter as the inevitable fingers seek to assign the inevitable blame. I hope that saw you through to this, the first full week of the shiny new quarter. So full of promise, so full of hope, so full of time. […]
Please Stop Sending Bad Holiday Greetings
The Slow Elf’s Tale Gather ‘round, boys and girls and let me tell you about how we did company Christmas, excuse me, Mutli-Denominational Winter Holiday (MDWH) cards in the olden days. You see, kids, it used to be that businesses bought thousands and thousands of MDWH cards, which were labouriously hand-signed and mailed (with a […]
