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Common Phrases that Scuttle Sales

The quickest way to damage a budding customer relationship is to use trite phrases that make you sound like a B2B sales rep. Don't get me wrong... there's nothing wrong with being a sales rep, but if you sound like one, it lessens your ability to achieve rapport and...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Geoffrey James, Trite, sales representative, sales

Blog posts 2007-09-20

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ALANIS MORISSETTE OTHER RELEASES OTHER RELEASES THE ARTS: MUSIC

ALANIS MORISSETTE Flavors Of Entanglement Maverick 2 stars THREE tracks into her new album, Alanis Morissette announces: "This shit is making me crazy!" Me too, I must agree. Could it be that, at last, Morissette has discovered the true meaning of the word "ironic"? ...

Articles 2008-06-01

Tributes to Frank Williams in 600th GP.

Team co-founder Patrick Head and the Grove-based outfit's former drivers give their thoughts as Sir Frank Williams celebrates his 600th grand prix in Monaco this weekend… Patrick Head [Williams F1 Director of Engineering]: "For Frank to reach 600 grands prix is a hell of an achievement....

Articles 2008-05-23

Concise Crossword #6727

Across 1 Extended across (7) 5 River at Tiverton (3) 8 Blue and white pottery design (6,7) 9 Operate (3) 10 Inherent (9) 12 Envelop (6) 13 Triteness (6)...

Articles 2008-05-08

Using water

With regard to your article on water shortages in the Ecology special issue (NCR, April 18), you have repeated the trite and obsolete "warning" on Page 2a in the "Doable Steps" of running the washing machine only when it is full. As someone who does his own laundry, I know...

Articles 2008-05-02

Mabius of 'Betty' married to a former schoolmate

Eric Mabius is cast as playboy editor Daniel Meade on ABC's "Ugly Betty," but in real life, he's married to a former ninth-grade classmate. "This sounds a little trite and unbelievable, but we had sex-ed class in ninth grade together," said the 37-year-old actor, who is married...

Articles 2008-04-30

Goliath survives attack by underdog Davidson

By Tully Corcoran THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL DETROIT - The pile of ice on the floor in the Kansas locker room told the story. It was the product of that trite expression of victory, the Gatorade shower. And though dousing the coach has...

Articles 2008-04-11

Letters: Obama supporters are NOT cultists!

TO GAR Joseph at Clout: Could you please knock off the stupid "cult member" cheap shots at Obama's supporters? It's stupid, it's trite, and it's also untrue: Speaking as a 38-year-old parent, homeowner and taxpayer who supports Obama, and who's been voting for 20 years, it's personally offensive and denigrating...

Articles 2008-04-09

'Island' full of wonder; Pair team up, find courage and power of imagination.(SHOW)(MOVIES)

Byline: Jenny Mayo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Young girls and perhaps even boys will find plenty of wonders to marvel at and positive messages to digest in "Nim's Island," Fox Walden's big-budget adaptation of Wendy Orr's popular children's book. Adults, on the other hand,...

Articles 2008-04-04

"Konk"

"Konk," CD by The Kooks in stores April 15 The Kooks, named for a 1971 David Bowie song, specializes in quirky Britpop. So much so that the band's latest "Konk" sounds like it could be a soundtrack for a Hugh Grant movie. There are traces of The Smiths and...

Articles 2008-03-31

Checks and balances.(LETTERS)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Gregory D. Foster accuses Michael Barone of "profound ignorance of the U.S. military officer corps and a shallow inability to get beyond the trite civil-military platitudes of the past" ("Fallon's fall," Letters, Monday). That's quite a mouthful to...

Articles 2008-03-26

Night where the hype was right; ADDINGTON HARNESS

It might seem a trite marketing gimmick to describe the lineup ofwinners at Addington as a galaxy of stars, but at a rare Saturdaynight gathering it hardly seemed adequate. The only surprise on that list was Idid It Myway downing some ofthe best trotters around, giving a new dimension...

Articles 2008-03-24

Fallon's fall.(LETTERS)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Michael Barone demonstrates a profound ignorance of the U.S. military officer corps and a shallow inability to get beyond the trite civil-military platitudes of the past ("Importance of Fallon's fall," Commentary, Tuesday). First, his oblique...

Articles 2008-03-24

Henson in no rush to leave Kruger or Runnin' Rebels

By Rick Dean THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL OMAHA, Neb. - In four seasons playing under Lon Kruger at Kansas State, the term "coach on the floor" became even more trite when used so frequently about Steve Henson. But that was when Henson was...

Articles 2008-03-22

Henson in no rush to leave Kruger or Runnin' Rebels

By Rick Dean THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL OMAHA, Neb. - In four seasons playing under Lon Kruger at Kansas State, the term "coach on the floor" became even more trite when used so frequently about Steve Henson. But that was when Henson was...

Articles 2008-03-22

Good old days

I fair choked over my coffee as I read the news item that SimonBarnett is electric with excitement ahead of Christchurch'sinvolvement with Earth Hour (March 17). Drivel like this would never have graced the pages of The Pressin the 20th century. What has happened to the grizzled, cynical,crapulent, chain-...

Articles 2008-03-22

Tale of New York crime and racial inequalities.(BOOKS)

Byline: Christian Toto, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Richard Price's latest crime drama features troubled cops and a murder witness who can't bear to look at himself in the mirror. In "Lush Life," the author's first novel in five years,...

Articles 2008-03-16

Making history

It was a fine week for nostalgic people of a certain age, like me. Rivers of Blood (BBC2, Saturday) was an excellent, and not entirely unsympathetic, filleting of Enoch Powell's 1968 speech. Historical events shuttle back and forth in our minds: who remembers that it came two weeks...

Articles 2008-03-15

Henry's Scarlett woman

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL M Directed by Justin Chadwick * *Reviewed by Margaret Agnew The Other Boleyn Girl is a trite soap opera about a sociallyambitious extended family dressed in Tudor clothes. While one Boleyngirl is bedded unwedded, the other is bedded, wedded, bedded somemore and beheaded. With...

Articles 2008-03-08

Politics keeps big schools away from Topeka talent

In recruiting, real estate and fastballs, the three keys are location, location and location. While that may be a little trite, I think it does help explain why Kansas football coach Mark Mangino said there aren't many Division I players in Topeka. "Topeka just...

Articles 2008-02-15