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  1. GLH = Great Looking Hair -- "Wow" -- Gotta feel the hair...
  2. Great analogy re: Michael Jordan pitching McDonalds. Jordan was the star. A real pitchman's gift is making your product the star!
  3. Remember - charming and persuasive might be a great start, but it's not the final answer.
  4. Kinda missed Day Two of reading What the Dog Saw... can't wait to get back into the prose from Mr. Gladwell. Here comes Day Three!
  5. RT @newyorkannie "They believed it was a mistake to separate product development from marketing," pg 5 of What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
  6. Storytelling in business is important to success. Great storytelling is critical. What's your story?
  7. Loving the insight into the Kitchen Pitchmen. Reminded of the importance of combining entertainment & sales to really capture an audience.
  8. Page 13 - The Knife sells $200 in product in a single pitch (for a product he didn't know how to use) b/c he knew how to ask for the money.
  9. True salesmanship... pitching to a group of 50, getting 25 to buy, & selling to 20 so that the remaining 5 create a buzz attracting 50 more!
  10. Arnold "The Knife" Morris was an entertainer, a pitchman... but boy could this guy sell!
  11. No focus groups, no R&D, no big marketing agency... just a man and his love for perfectly rotisserie'd meats. $1 billion in sales? What?
  12. Minor geniuses have been known to eat at Dennys! $1.99 are you outta your mind!
  13. Ron Popeil = minor Kitchen genius
  14. We're already into the Dial-O-Matic guy... Ron Popeil (don't recognize the name, but would probably recognize his face from infomercials).
  15. Time to start the juicy stuff... Part One! "To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish." ~Gladwell -- Try that on for size?
  16. Wonder if @Gladwell will talk to astronauts or NASA officials about what they are thinking about as space shuttles reenter the atmosphere.
  17. I'm remember the Challenger crash... sad day. Tough month for the nation and (after working in aerospace) NASA as well.
  18. Finished reading the Preface and thinking about my dad's green and white accounting printouts that made absolutely no sense to me as a kid.
  19. Quick side note... I'm not a professional book reviewer or critic, just fascinated with the stories that @Gladwell tells. Mind opening.
  20. The title of the book is quite "minor genius" referring to, not just what people like Cesar Millan think but also what the dog is thinking.