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Cartooning For Attention

[http://tomfishburne.com/] I do like the occasional cartoon. I use them a lot in slide decks that run a workshop session. I tend to photoshop in my own, naturally witty, text, relating to the personalities I’m working with. A friend of mine introduced me to this cartoonist [http:

When Nobody Talks By Phone

[https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXKYugAL6W/] Weekend surfing I succumbed to the clickbait of It’s good to talk: Why the phone call needs to make a comeback [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/ae27b784-1adb-4dc2-871e-c6842e4b66d0]. Triggered from the volume of phone calls dropping for the first ever time last

Highlighting The Digitized Negative

This week saw the curious occurrence of a labour strike at one of our digital behemoths. The growing backlash against the tech giants, encapsulated by their detractors’ reference to them through the acronym “faangs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netflix_and_Google]“, received the accelerant of a

Your Situation Description Slide

I glimpsed a presentation the other day. The image above is my replication of the starting slide. To denude its identity, I’ve rather summarised the text by describing each line’s content. Regardless of setting, this kind of template is remarkably resilient. Commonplace across all manner of business rooms.

Try Newly Launched Font For Slide Message That Must Not Get Forgot

[http://www.sansforgetica.rmit/] How about this. A new font to help us sell. Choosing the typeface for our deck’s text is almost univers-ally (geddit?!) easy. Defaulting to Arial pretty much exclusively. Or at the very least, your own ‘sans serif’ (anything without those flourished curly stroke endings) such

Doo Doo, Doo Doo, Doo-Doo The Baby Shark Dance To Gain Recall

As regular readers may have sussed, I do love a cheeky little Sales newsjack. Not only has this 2min clip above had (at time of blogging) almost two billion views, anything Baby Shark related is already slated as the must-have 2018 christmas pressie to give toddlers this year. There’s

Rock Your Presentation Nigel Barlow 2016

[https://www.nigelbarlow.com/-Rock-Your-Presentation] I saw a dog-eared copy of this in a bargain bin. A fate befalling too many a Sales volume in bookstores? Anyway, as there’s precious few good tomes on presenting style and thumbing through the text-heavy format didn’t inspire, thought I’d rather

Show Your Key Number The Basecamp Way

[https://basecamp.com/] The detail of this chart above isn’t that important. It shows biannual growth in users of an old favourite anti-project management ‘app’. Before the word app meant what it means today. Fourteen years in and they’ve nearly three million “accounts signed up”. It adds up

Caution: Do Not Stare At Heater

“Look what I noticed when I was staring at the heater…” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s not often a friend sends you a random snap from their day and it turns out to be a decent sales presentation slide image. Tis from a wintry sleeper carriage on the S African cross-country Shosholoza

Slide Theme Ideas From Short Film Maker

[https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/forget-hygge-the-laws-that-really-rule-in-scandina/p06gtkxt] Public service broadcasting is the dragon that seems likely to be if not slayed, then soon put in a small cage on a tight leash. Digital and streaming strides voraciously devouring their monopolistic market skewings. Which gives rise to strange attempts at