(1). A basketball term used by management to pressure sales staff to concentrate on a favored (read: expensive) or, more likely, under-performing product.
Full Court Press
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Dead Fish
(1). A term describing a type of handshake that can best be compared to holding a dead trout and shaking it about awkwardly.
“Did that guy just slip you the dead fish? It was like try to grab a live salmon. I tried to reel it in, but he just wasn’t having it.”
Critical Mass
(1). A term used in an attempt to compare the results of a marketing effort to a nuclear event. It’s not, by the way, a nuclear event … it’s not even going to be mentioned at next month’s town hall meeting. Worth it!
“Well, I think we’ve achieved critical mass at this point so we can move on to the next stage … did somebody say ‘roadshow‘?!”