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Ditch Your First Dozen Corporate Overview Slides

I lapped up seeing a good old corporate overview the other day. In a crowded coffee shop no less. Fuller than normal I suspect, given the torrential downpour outside at the time. The cacophonous surrounds did not perturb the pitcher though. Tablet propped up, the modern-day site seller swiped along

Shoot MWC Retro Star Bullets

For the past few years I’ve enjoyed looking in from afar at Barcelona when what’s become the global launch conference takes place that is the Mobile World Congress. So who’s this year’s standout star? Wearables? Augmented reality? The Internet of Things? 5G? No. It’s a

The Rockstar Statistician And Your Sales Storytelling

data presentation masterclass from Davos Jan 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gustavus Adolphus, Ikea, Abba. You gotta love the Swedes. Yet who from Sweden has made the biggest global impact? The founder of Spotify (and newly crowned most influential music industry bod) feels it’s Hans Rosling. He’s not alone. Although the

onepoundslides

[https://www.instagram.com/onepoundmeals/] The latest instagram food phenomenon hails from London. It’s easy to be seduced by his mouth-watering meals which cost well under a quid. There’s a few drawbacks, yes. Chief among them the fact he calcs on a cost-per-unit basis. It can be a

Boston Consulting CEO Doesn't Know How To Write On A Flipchart, Do You?

Another year at Davos, another Richard Quest flipchart. Risk Map [http://salespodder.com/distracted-by-risk-map-stability/], Worry Wall [http://salespodder.com/embrace-volatility-forget-stability/]and for 2017, his Scale of Uncertainty. As Quest himself notes [http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/16/news/economy/davos-future-richard-quest/index.html] ; > “[of the 400 sessions] there is one

Deep Impact Ideogram Pitching

Let’s deal with the obvious “twin film” fact first. Armageddon is better. Disaster movies. Lucky that forty years back Irwin Allen raised their game? So I rewatchedDeep Impact. Bruce had his asteroid, Téa her comet. Ellie. Well, E_L_E, in 90s internet-speak. Extinction Level Event. We’re treated

Numberline Difference Data Storytelling

Here’s a great graphical technique. Be aware that it can take up quite a large chunk of your downtime. But when done well, it can be a real pitch winner. The numberline. I was reminded of this when seeing Newsnight’s explanation of where American pollsters got the Presidential

Build On Impressive Japanese Sinkhole Fix

Another good news story this week with terrific solution selling knock-ons. The above pic whizzes around the web as I tap. It’s a story that you simply have to use in as many a prez as you can between now and the end of the year. Here’s the

Supermoon Slide Syzygy

Weather guessers. Or as they call themselves these days, meteorologists. Squillions squandered on the latest cutting edge computers. With graphics to match. The pic above features the comforting presence of Shefali Oza. A telly weather girl in her local region for over twenty years. On duty the night of yesterday’

Parklet Campaign And Your Winning Slide Decklet

[https://www.instagram.com/futurecapetown/] Have you a single pic that sums up your argument? A while back there was a wonderful movement to create public areas where there were none. On my local shopping main road, a couple of street parking spaces were replaced with a purpose made “parklet