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When To Pitch The Analogue Way

BBC Future and Capital magazines have no place in a taxpayer funded ‘news’ site. Still, while they exist for now, and if you can stomach the sadly merely surface level slant of most pieces, there is the occasional coffee break read available with some merit. One such musing pondered why

The Presentation That Nixed A Nuke Deal ... Maybe

[https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/05/01/middleeast/israel-iran-nuclear-evidence-analysis/index.html] Bibi’s been at it again. As recently as February he was owning the airwaves [http://salespodder.com/netanyahu-revisits-cartoony-trick/] for a precious cycle with his debris prop. This week he apparently ‘influenced’ the USA’s withdrawal from the Iran

Chicago Exchange Floor Flipchart Interest Rate Arrow

[https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/01/santelli-exchange-dollar-strengthens-and-rates-melt-up.html] How delighted I was to see a tv presenter use a flipchart. As someone who often helps salespeople master the deceptively complex performance this entails I watched with great interest. During one late morning, CNBC cut to a chap on

Sugary Visuals

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5680019/QUENTIN-LETTS-sees-Jamie-Oliver-speak-bluntly-Britains-obesity-crisis.html] This is a screenshot of a news site snippet. It comes from a pair of English celebrity chefs. They’ve spent the latter halves of their careers fronting “campaigning” food telly. Here, they’re up before a parliamentary committee looking into

Subdue Your Tick

[https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/01/oracle-ceo-were-gaining-material-amounts-of-market-share-with-back-office-applications.html] It is ridiculous how often you see a senior corporate “leader” speak and you wonder in astonishment how on earth they got to where they are. Above is a CEO of a $200bn company in Oracle. I caught the tech

Have You A Winning Product Sub-Title?

As I listened to the always enjoyable newsanchor Eddie Mair in his regular London five o’clock slot, I couldn’t help but admire the master of irreverence continually reference his Saturday show; iPM – the programme that starts with its listeners Complete with audible cheeky grin. You could almost hear

ɹǝddᴉlɟ ɹoɹɹᴉɯ

[https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande] Well, it is 2018. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that I learned new powerpointing via a teenpop sensation. Ariana Grande (I could say ask a schoolgirl, but you ought know this singer after the tragic bombing at her Manchester gig last year and its heartwarming

Shape Your Event Like Live TV News Anchor

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/06/huw-edwards.jpg] Welshman Huw Edwards reads autocue for a living. Once in a while he is let loose. He narrates on big set piece live events. These have included both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies from the 2012 London Olympics. Danny Boyle’

My First PechaKucha Attendance

Pecha Kucha Cape Town [https://www.pechakucha.org/cities/cape-town] 47. I’ve wanted to attend one of these nights for a long while. As the compère (more of him later) informed us – with an origin story slightly different to the wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha] entry – the

Cesor The Uwated Like Chia O*e Party State

What is wrong with “freedom”? This headline was typical of what flew around the web this past week; Ce*sored! [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/china-bans-the-letter-n-internet-xi-jinping-extends-power] China bans letter N (briefly) from internet as Xi Jinping extends grip on power. The full list of terms blocked [https: