--- title: Eleven of the Best Things in 2010–Not really a marketing blog description: A dozen things that made 2010 great ranging from my favorite pint to a return to the USA. Not really a sales/marketing blog, but they get a mention. image: https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/file-14058359-jpg/images/linchpin.jpg --- [![WCS LOGO-01-cropped](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/hubfs/WCS%20LOGO-01-cropped.png?width=928&height=377&name=WCS%20LOGO-01-cropped.png) ![WCS LOGO-01-cropped](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/hubfs/WCS%20LOGO-01-cropped.png?width=928&height=377&name=WCS%20LOGO-01-cropped.png) ](https://www.whychangeselling.com/) #### [Sales Playbook As a Service](https://www.admarco.net/as-a-service) #### [Sales On-Boarding As a Service](https://www.admarco.net/as-a-service#on-boarding-service) #### [Sales Academy-as-a-Service](https://www.admarco.net/as-a-service#academy-service) #### [Channel Enablement As a Service ](https://www.admarco.net/as-a-service#channel-enablement-service) #### [Content](https://www.admarco.net/a-la-carte-services) #### [Sales Process ](https://www.admarco.net/a-la-carte-services#sales-process-service) #### [Training and Gamification](https://www.admarco.net/a-la-carte-services#training-gamification-service) #### [Events](https://www.admarco.net/a-la-carte-services#events-service) #### [Build](https://www.admarco.net/services-by-phase) #### [Launch](https://www.admarco.net/services-by-phase#launch-service) #### [Sustain](https://www.admarco.net/services-by-phase#sustain-service) ![zoom1920](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/hubfs/zoom1920.jpg?width=1920&height=1280&name=zoom1920.jpg) # Why Change Selling Blog ##### SUBSCRIBE FOR UPDATES ###### 2 min read # [Eleven of the Best Things in 2010–Not really a marketing blog](https://www.shift90.partners/blog/eleven-of-the-best-things-in-2010-not-really-a-marketing-blog) By [Mark Gibson](https://www.shift90.partners/blog/author/mark-gibson) on Oct 27, 2021 11:23:06 AM ###### Topics: [inbound marketing](https://www.shift90.partners/blog/topic/inbound-marketing) [whiteboard selling](https://www.shift90.partners/blog/topic/whiteboard-selling) ![](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/file-14058359-jpg/images/linchpin.jpg) 1. Best Book: Seth Godin's [Linchpin](http://www.admarco.net/inbound-marketing-messaging-sales-performance-blog/?Tag=linchpin) really addresses a bunch of personal issues that prevent people from getting ![linchpin](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/file-14058359-jpg/images/linchpin.jpg?width=237&height=237&name=linchpin.jpg)the important stuff done. 2. Obama's healthcare reforms: mean affordable healthcare coverage for me and my family and the employees of our business...and millions of other small business owners and employees in the US. 3. Moving back to the USA...it was a good time to go to the UK in 2003 and it feels like a good time to be back in the US - an added bonus, we missed the coldest, snowiest winter in Scotland for 60 years. 4. Becoming an affiliate of [WhiteboardSelling](https://www.shift90.partners/whiteboard-selling/) provides a logical output of our Mess![whiteboardselling](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/file-14065460-jpg/images/wbs-logo-large.400.jpg?width=360&height=108&name=wbs-logo-large.400.jpg)aging Architecture process and translates it into something the sales team will actually want to use and enables me to implement a lot of the Salescraft technique I have developed as well. 5. Our Toyota Prius has to be the smartest car I've ever owned and we are averaging 50+ MPG. A real surprise inside, with more leg and headroom than our old Volvo Waggon and a terrific load deck that will carry most stuff we need to haul. 6. Moving in to our Pebble Beach home in just 10 weeks from purchase with a complete renovation has to be some sort of record...thanks to my wife, Robin. 7. My new Kevin Burns Putter...this is the first putter I have ever![kevin burns putter](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/file-14058013-jpg/images/kbgolf.2.jpg) owned that is scientifically fitted exactly for my physiology and putting stroke. It is also the finest quality milled putter available and the custom-fitting-machining process that Kevin Burns invented and his practical stroke improvement tips mean that **[KBGolf](http://www.kbputters.com/) putters are the only truly custom golf clubs that actually improve your game**. 8. Best Work Engagement: Working on implementing Inbound Marketing at hot Cloud Storage spin-out [Scality](http://www.scality.com) in Paris. 9. Best Wine of the year: 1976 Penfolds Grange Hermitage - a majesterial wine, still improving, incredible colour, nose and massive sweet and intense chocolatey red and black fruit flavors that linger for minutes, this wine still has 20 years in it. 10. Best Pub: The Central Bar, St Andrews and ask for a pint of![central bar](https://www.shift90.partners/hs-fs/file-14051578-jpg/images/central.mg.small1.jpg) my favorite real ale "Bitter and Twisted" from Harviestoun Brewery. 11. 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