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Follow Focus Of Eccentric Inventor

I hope I’m not being too unkind labelling Trevor Baylis [http://windupradio.com/trevor.htm] as eccentric. Yet having recently seen the chaotic state of his houseboat he does seem to fit the madcap genius inventor stereotype. I’d heard of him before. When he conjured up the wonderful

Do You Know What A Buyer Really Wants With Your CV?

Here’s a situation I was party to recently. Drafting the finalities of a Proposal. Surprisingly then asked by the ‘client collator’ to submit a CV. As is the modern way, it was via a sentence of terse text. The inexperienced seller grasps hold of such a bone. They rush

Spot Fake Sales The Facebook Way

[https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/04/a-new-educational-tool-against-misinformation/] Angela rejoice… In what seems to be roundly dismissed as vacuous pr, everyone’s favourite fake news purveyor, Facebook, this week prompts news feeding users [https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/facebook-puts-link-to-10-tips-for-spotting-false-news-atop-feed/] three times to note their ten tips for spotting “false

Collar Your Deal Like Yard-Winning Architect

[http://www.ahmm.co.uk/] A new New Scotland Yard becomes the latest hub of London’s police force. Its replaced predecessor apparently unloved by occupants. Worse than what was seen in Life On Mars, a fictional brutalist, cold police station from 1973. The refurbished space looks everything you’d

Happy Birthday Cupcake

[https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/azlitamasammanis/] from a batch of fifty made in what may have been Malaysia for a Dyson engineer possibly by the wonderfully talented baker, ‘azlita masam manis [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/azlitamasammanis/]‘ (sweet ‘n sour Azlita?) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was delighted to taste this

Danshari Your Funnel

[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/if-you-like-it-chuck-it-secrets-of-japans-most-radical-minimalist-9mq32vxwh] Spring buds sunnily into life where I blog today. London’s Times (subscription [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/if-you-like-it-chuck-it-secrets-of-japans-most-radical-minimalist-9mq32vxwh] ) has the above piece on the Japanese ways of tidying up. Termed danshari. Spring-clean a pullout theme. I’ve noted before the queen

Have You Six Security Features Like The New Pound Coin

> Change is coming …the marketing slogan for the introduction of what was trumpeted as; > the most secure coin in the world. Referring to the dodecagon which is the freshly minted one pound sterling. The drumrolling around this launch certainly enriches the general solution sales pitch. The previous round

Present Even Better Than Oscar Actor

Jeremy Irons is a wonderful onscreen presence. How about in front of a screen though? Well. Judging by this above screen grab from a BBC news report, not so sparkling. Yes, it’s dangerous to take only the snapshot served up by the media. Yet there’s plenty to pore

Amy Cuddy TED Power Pose Talk

This is one of the all-time most viewed Ted Talks. It’s worth the twenty-minute watch for the few subtleties you can consciously add to your physical selling demeanour. Why suffer penguin arms when you can be a piping hot teapot? For me, as an Anglo-Saxon with a sometimes strangely

Annual Report Pitch Design Compliance

Here’s a neat and friendly falling-short-of-sycophancy presentation trick. A friend of mine was working with a huge telco. The question of how to present to them cropped up. Standard fare dictates a snoreshow laden with your livery adorning precious screen estate on every slide, alongside those oh so clever