by Colin Pearce | Nov 3, 2020 | Success ideas for work and life
Picture me having a nice full breakfast at an outdoor Italian restaurant waiting for a mate to rock up in an hour or so. BLISS Enjoying the background music, the morning breeze, browsing through an e-book and slowly becoming aware of someone nearby, talking. Not your...
by Colin Pearce | Jul 17, 2020 | Success ideas for work and life
Humans are the only living beings on the planet that talk in words and sentences. Marvellous thing that it is, speech underachieves in contrast to its over-use. Joe Jones had a simple (slightly off-pitch) song about it in 1960, named, ‘You talk too much’...
by Colin Pearce | Oct 31, 2018 | Success ideas for work and life
There was an abandoned house in the paddocks near my house when I was young and it begged to have its windows smashed by little boys throwing rocks. It sure was fun until a grown up told us off. I still can’t think why it was wrong because developers were going to do...
by Colin Pearce | May 18, 2017 | Success ideas for work and life
Talk about being disinterested! I popped into a B-I-I-I-I-I-I-G name hardware store to price up a cordless drill. I approached the power tool desk and interrupted the salesperson placing price labels on placards at the rate of one per yawn. His store overalls were...
by Colin Pearce | Apr 7, 2017 | Success ideas for work and life
You see an ever-increasing number of posts and promotions telling you that everything has changed about selling and business. The inference is that good old salesmanship is dead. They will tell you the pie-and-donut-long-lunch hour-timewasting-salesperson era is long...