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How To Deal With The Summer Holiday Objection

23 July 201223 July 2012 Columns, Sales Andy Preston 1 Comment

It’s always interesting as we head into the summer holiday period, how many people fall for the “call me back after the summer holiday” objection. For most salespeople, this starts to rear its head from the middle of July onwards.

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For all the column inches lavished on hoodie-wearing teenage coders and so-called "Silver Starter" retirees launching second-act ventures from the kitchen table, the typical British entrepreneur looks remarkably like the one who turned up at Companies House a quarter of a century ago. They are 43 years old, mid-career, and, by the looks of it, completely unmoved by fashion.

The ’43 club’: why Britain’s typical entrepreneur has barely aged a day in 25 years

New analysis of 9.2 million UK director appointments shows the average age of a British founder has stayed at 43 for more than two decades, defying recessions, Brexit and the rise of teenage tech stars.

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