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Optimum Olympic Gold Medal Speaking Balance

I’ve attended many a presentation from an “inspirational” speaker. Thankfully, there’s usually a worthy takeaway. A recent one happily produced two. A Barcelona Gold Medal rower when 20 years young who returned for a London Bronze aged 40. Remarkable. After his standard hour pitch, he later said a

David JP Phillips TEDx How To Avoid Death By Powerpoint

Twenty terrific minutes of presentation tips. The vid above pretty much speaks for itself. Any Sales presenter should watch it. And act on its advice. There’s irony in that the slide he chooses to use as demonstration (about a super-car development) is neither sexy nor ground-breaking in its eventual

Make Impression With Whiteboard Space Like Mensch Artist

How good are you at Whiteboarding? Genuinely a winner? Then well done. Sadly you’re in the tiny minority. You should never miss a chance to leave something intriguing on a prospect’s flip chart, proudly displayed for the room’s next occupants to marvel upon. I often run sessions

4 Quick Skips Over The Deepism Inspirational Quote Turn Off Trap

A snippet I pic’d from Thursday’s Times print edition. Deepisms. Now there’s a delicious concept. Closely followed by the myriad personality flaws of those that consider them worthy. You can’t help but think on a litany of unwarranted mid-presentation quote slides. Sincerely projected. Supposedly sage words

Avoiding Nike's $14 Billion Presentation Blunder

American sport. Really. There’s an obvious reason why no-one else plays them. I have though enjoyed basketball. Playing and spectating. My last exposure was crazy. Working in New York, 2012. Linsanity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Lin]. Fabulous. So I thought the recent play by Steph Curry worth

Apply Sleek Instagram Logo Trick To See What's Burned Into Your Sales Psyche

[blog.instagram.com/post/144198429587/160511-a-new-look] Who’d have thought it? This week the internet exploded. Instagram updated its logo. Hashtags changeitback and oldinsta flooded uploads. You can’t help but chuckle along with the designer in charge. On reaction that would ensue, Fast Company knowingly quoted [http://www.fastcodesign.

Emulating Netflix Sub 2-Second Window

[http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/selecting-best-artwork-for-videos.html] A/B Testing. A winner from worlds as seemingly disparate as market research and computer coding. Huge media disrupter Netflix just shared insight into how they conduct such tests to best ‘present’ their wares. Their image above shows which of eight options

The Bigly Wonders Of Making Up Your Own Word

American elections. Blimey. True democracy takes many forms. Yet is there any country, anywhere, that’s got the voting process right? This week proof yet again that the personalities, gaffes and presentation so often outgun policies. The Donald has got down to the wire. He of the hairpiece, tv fame

How To Wow And Present Like Fictional Steve Jobs

A Hollywood “slide”. Depicting NYT reporting of Apple Macintosh projected first 90 day sales of 1,000,000 on backstage backdrop, when actual results were just 35,000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danny Boyle directs Michael Fassbender in the title role of 2015’s Steve Jobs. Kate Winslet won gongs a plenty for

MWC Slide Mobility Slowed

Last week’s Mobile World Congress (Mobile is Everything [https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/]) gained its now customary wide media coverage. Although this time a little dimmed, as it strangely clashed with a big Social Media Week shindig (Reimagining Human Connectivity [http://socialmediaweek.org/newyork/]) from New York. So I eagerly