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  The best person I know when it comes to face-to-face selling is Andy Bounds.  He has written a book you will often find on airport bookstalls called The Jelly Effect. Don't be put off because he ment...

• The Drayton Bird Blog: "Nothing fails like success" - or how to get hopelessly marooned up your own

  This may not interest you much, but I coined the first phrase above about four years ago when the world's economies started to fall apart...

• The Drayton Bird Blog: Blah, blah, blinding glimpses of the obvious, phoney drivel that defeats its

  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 ...

• The Drayton Bird Blog: Darling, what’s all this “we” shit about?

  This morning I read that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling says that though we face the worst recession of all developed cou...

• The Drayton Bird Blog: March 2012

  This may explain a few things. In the U.K. and U.S. where public schools teachers are badly paid a depressing number of kids who leave school can't read and write properly. Conversely, in private sc...

• The Drayton Bird Blog: Like to see one of the best demolitions of advertising stupidity ever? Also

  When you read this demolition, note the date it was put together: early '60's, when a lot of advertising was better (but some worse). The ...