Thank you to everyone who answered my questions about what might interest you in the way of seminars. The result created a certain sense of schizophrenia. There was very little difference in number between those who wanted a seminar on …
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Here’s a cunning new/old business approach. Maybe copied from old fashioned greengrocers?
In olden days when I was young and dragons roamed the land they used to have shops called greengrocers. They sold fruit and vegetables. There are still one or two lingering on. If you ever spot one, they are usually …
Read MoreWhy aren’t you rich yet? A minor mystery. And can you advise me?
Did you know that new research reveals that the best exam results are in countries where they pay teachers most? This may explain a few things. In the U.K. and U.S. where public schools teachers are badly paid a depressing …
Read MoreBlah, blah, blinding glimpses of the obvious, phoney drivel that defeats its purpose, a laugh from Al … and illiteracy (and crooks) run riot
Yesterday I sent out an email suggesting among other things that in the U.K, people always find reasons NOT to do things. This reminds me that years ago maybe I should have emigrated to the U.S., Canada or Australia where …
Read MoreLEAP DAY FLASH SALE to celebrate the 18th birthday of a splendid man
This is a great day for one of my oldest friends – Daz Valladares. It is his 18th, which is weird, because he looks much, much older. That’s because he was born on February 29th. Leap Day. If you don’t …
Read MoreIn the best possible taste, as usual
You think you have lived to be 80 and know who you are, then along comes someone and blows it all to hell! An old Marine Pilot sat down at the Starbucks, still wearing his old USMC flight suit and …
Read MoreHere’s a comic (and lying) name for a business. Plus, yes, bankers really DO p**s away your money – and a countdown or two
Are you jaded and bored, or easily entertained? I get fun practically everywhere I turn. Last night I watched a BBC 4 programme – Sicily Explored – a gastro-historical feast about one of my favourite islands followed by the latest …
Read MoreFriday’s assorted marketing garbage: what IS going on these people’s heads? And some beautiful writing
If Smirking Dave wanted to know what is going on outside the Great Dream Cocoon in which he lives he could do a lot worse than take a walk around Bristol. One feature besides the groups of half-dressed drunken sluts …
Read MoreMindless Meanderings in the Shiny Marketing Wonderland: Who Else Walks on Water? Plus a Mickey Mouse Job Opportunity
I don’t know why but I get invitations to speak in little spurts. You know how these things are – like waiting for buses. You stand in the freezing cold for twenty minutes, then three come all at once. You …
Read MoreA competition to find the biggest crooks and fools. Who would win? And an investment puzzle
I don’t know what quirk in me makes for this never-ending fascination with rogues and fools. Anyhow the funniest things I read on Saturday covered both. First, a headline saying “FTSE settles above 5,900 on Greece optimism.” It is my …
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