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Discount Kills Margin Wine Example

Always eager to find new vines from wine ‘experts’, here’s a graphic I caught from a BBC Food & Drink show rerun. Delightfully, this episode went on to highlight lesser-known Spanish reds. Presenter and wine shop owner Kate Goodman sought to expand the famed Jancis Robinson lesson that if you

Conference Bespoke Scoring For Maximum Message Volume

Listening to a straw poll magazine piece on the streets of the unlikely English Premier League 2016 frontrunners, I chuckled to hear the scoring system. The interviewer asked each local to give their rating out of 110% on whether their team could stay the pace and be champions. It caused

Why The Same Three Angles

This selling trap comes to me from a commonplace photography flaw. It seems that when taking holiday snaps of landmarks, the average person is – in the eyes of the pros – distinctly average. The planet’s marvellous scenic delights are taken by the vast majority of tourists from solely the same

Can You Better Stats Quack At The Flipchart

[https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/870610151723507712] Alternative facts, fake news, post-truth, echo chambers, metropolitan liberal elite bias, satirical propaganda, partial impartiality. Where to turn if you’re crying out for “true facts”? The plethora of reality check vendors? Here’s one. Oh dear. The man above on the left

What Your Own Slide Photos Can Learn From Dating Profile Pics That Attract

I was enjoying coffee with a photographer [https://www.instagram.com/mjarophotography/]. Then a man with a large camera and associated bag of tricks began to set up in a corner of the cafe. A legal lady was to have her picture taken. Cue jokes about long zoom size as

Urbanista Room Dressing

[http://futurecapetown.com/2017/02/report-church-square/] I’ve blogged on this vital skill [http://salespodder.com/do-you-dress-the-room/] before. Theatre stage designers can teach sellers a great deal. Not in terms of trap doors, no matter attractive one may often be, nor smoke and mirrors to add pizzazz to a presentation.

Are You Ruining Presentations To Make TED Founder Scream?

TED curator Chris Anderson writes from a deep well of killer knowledge about giving presentations [http://blog.ted.com/2013/07/24/chris-anderson-on-what-makes-a-great-talk-great/] . He coaches speakers for up to 9 months in advance of their 18-minute delivery. When it comes to corporate spiel, here’s a sample gem; > Don’t

Is This Truly The Number One Meeting Whiteboard Trick

[http://www.thecooperreview.com] The Venn Diagram. Lovely to see it accorded such prominence in the meeting room satire of Sara Cooper’s debut book. ∩= sweet spot. I can see this turned into a knowingly cheeky sales flipchart routine. Draw only the two interlocking circles and label their intersection. Then

Paint Your Colour Name On The Prospect Palette

I caught a potted history of colour naming from a telly magazine piece. Who knew the current trend for treating colours as if they were racehorses is by some placed at the door of Crayola. Their crayons begin with standard names in 1903, yet by 1949 their range expands to

Slidedeck Bonfyre

Glamping now so ordinary. Try a luxury festival in the Bahamas. Or not. Given the disaster that was this weekend’s Fyre Festival. Widely reported [http://www.edmsauce.com/2017/04/28/horrifying-time-line-fyre-festival-privilege-fraud-exploitation-now-arrests/] , relief tents and cheese sarnies greeted astonished revellers. Which caused much mocking for the wildly expensive shindig