“Josh! Stop peeing in the pool!” “Awww, come on. Everyone pees in the pool.” “Yes, but not from the high dive.” Hey sales pro! The most common theme you’ll discover in my writing is this; How well do you distinguish yourself from everyone else who sells? Are you working on it? Got some creative strategies, some guerrilla marketing tactics [...]

Famed aviator Steve Fosset disappeared about a year ago. Search parties have taken to air and ground trying to discover what happened to him. Today a news item ran this copy, after a plane identical to his was sighted on the ground… Hours before Wednesday’s aerial sighting, hikers found cash and identification cards with Fossett’s [...]

Casey came home from the doctor looking very worried.  His wife said, “What’s the problem?” He said, “The doctor told me I have to take a pill every day for the rest of my life.” She said, “So what?  Lots of people have to take a pill every day their whole lives.” He said, “I know, but he [...]

The world’s biggest drug addict has finally kicked the habit. Big Brother, an Asian elephant hooked on heroin after drug traffickers fed him smack-laced bananas, is finally heading home after three years in rehab, Reuters quoted the Xinhua news agency as saying. The bull, or male, was captured in the wild in 2005 in southwestern China [...]

The mom leaned over the sleepy head in bed. “Honey, it’s time to get up, you’re already going to be late for school.” “I don’t want to go to school. All the kids hate me. The teachers hate me. EVERYONE HATES ME!!!” “But honey, you have to be there. You’re the principal.” Do you know who you are as [...]

Dante Culpepper retired today from the NFL. His notice was sent by email and it’s has some fascinating wording in which is embedded a great selling lesson… “I have been strongly encouraged from family, friends and league personnel to continue to be patient and wait for an inevitable injury to one of the starting quarterbacks in [...]

A motorist casually traveling on a highway had his vehicle crushed by an airborne cow (this time, near Manson, Wash., in November). The 600-pound cow had fallen off a cliff, totaling the minivan but not injuring the driver, who was quoted in an Associated Press dispatch saying repeatedly, “I don’t believe this.” [Seattle Post-Intelligencer-AP, 11-6-07] In [...]

Today I was looking at a Map of the World placemat I got for my kids. There are some interesting observations one can make beneath the spaghetti sauce… Everybody wants to own something. There’s an island west of Mexico that France owns. The Caribbean islands are owned by the US, UK, France & the Netherlands. The UK owns lots [...]

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Although the art thief and the photographer were very good friends, neither had ever taken the other’s picture. – George Carlin A comedian teaching sales professionals? Yes indeed! Because comedians, like authors & songwriters & sales reps MAKE MONEY WITH THEIR WORDS! George Carlin was my favorite comedian - as a business humor writer, I’ve collected [...]