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Overview Overreach

'That 20-slide vendor corporate overview was really uplifting,' said no once semi-engaged buyer ever. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any potential customer being riveted by how wonderful you think you are. Unless perhaps they are in the serious consideration stage of formal supplier vetting. Yet time and

Grawlix & Leet Your Pitch

Down the years I've blogged on many ways to make your mark with a slide. I reminded myself of another idea to implant a message with a recent post deriding the video call option gorilla that is Teams. Or as I wrote Microsoft's product name, T@

Are You Meghanly Me Me Me?

The monster (choose your slant on this adjective here, + or -) online news site of Daily Mail has long since had enough of 'The Duchess of Woke'. You can read on such at your leisure. For me, I was fascinated by this video annotation. Hot off the heels

I Will Deliver

Britain's ruling party anoint its latest leader. By default now head of the UK government. Liz Truss gave her acceptance speech in front of the adulating party faithful. 6 minutes. 318 words. As the rolling news graphic above helpfully tots up, ten of which were 'deliver'

Guess The Data Lines

Reading the always insightful economist writer and broadcaster, Liam Halligan, I noted his publisher's approach to graphs. In this case, London broadsheet The Telegraph. The country's most read paper of its type. This chart especially caught my interest. When clicking on it to peruse further, the

TLDR; The New Recap

I see lots of Sales slidedecks. They can easily suffer the same types of limiting factors. Too long, too cluttered, too customer-non-centric, too wordy, too pointless. Even when you know the traps, it can be fiendishly tricky to edit your own work to banish such kinds of sales prevention tics.

Poptastic Salesjustice

In the tradition of musical progression, it is always a neat trick to remix what's gone before and create something new and interesting. Think less earworm, more salesworm? One London-based chart music journalist long online offers up a recent top three of treatments that we can readily adapt

Video Meetings as seen by AI

> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg9Kr_pIM-o/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] A post shared by salespodder (@salespodder) [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg9Kr_pIM-o/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] Meme goldmine Dall-E mini is now Craiyon. It

Google Simplicity Sprint Staff Survey Tip

> What would help you work with greater clarity and efficiency to serve our users and customers? Where should we remove speed bumps to get to better results faster? How do we eliminate waste and stay entrepreneurial and focused as we grow? A sample of three questions to elicit employee

Slide Stamp Of Retrieval

There's a hullabaloo where I am about a mail change. The story behind the English invention of the modern day postal service is a cracker for students of pricing policies. The global postal system as we know it today was the brainchild of an English 'schoolmaster turned