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Adapt Van Gaal Dossier To Trump Your Opposition

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/02/vangaal-dossier-p1-crop.jpg] Louis van Gaal. Comedy gold. The funniest people are those that produce gags when they think they’re being serious. Enter the Man U-managing Dutchman. To fend off accusations that his team had become ‘Long Ball United’ to draw their

Petro Presentation Scores Second Big Hit In A Fortnight

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/02/PetroMunichfront.jpg] Who is Selling’s favourite world leader right now? Surely it’s Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko. So just a couple of weeks ago he was busy in Davos. He stole the headlines at the swanky Swiss ski resort’s annual

Vote Hexagonal Like Skynews Graphics

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/skynewspollprojectionshung.jpg] Most of presentation ideas I get these days go straight through my instagram, but occasionally I catch a vibe that merits deeper riffing. This one comes via the graphicists at London’s rolling tv channel Sky News [http://news.sky.

Are Prospects Feeling Values Love The Linkedin Way

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/bloomberglinkedin.jpg] A screenshot from Bloomberg tv’s Studio 1.0. Proof that the most lame sounding pitch can turn an (eventual) profit. “Friendster for business” LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman doesn’t seem to like that tag, nor “the startup whisperer”. I

Distracted By Risk Map Stability?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/wpid-questinfrontofriskmap400w.jpg] I do secretly enjoy Richard Quest’s annual Davos reporting for CNN. Yet every year I rail at the procession of supposed global movers and shakers that talk the same old utter rubbish. (Note my blog touching on this a

Bring Your Pitch To Life With A Prop

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/ukrainepresidentprop400w.jpg] I took this above pic of my telly. It’s the Ukraine President at the Davos World Economic Forum. He holds a piece of bus coachwork wreckage to prove Russian involvement in a recent Donetsk massacre. Stark image. Memorable message.

Fox News Facts Fail

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2015/01/stevenemersonskynewsapologytobirmingham.jpg] Here’s a man apologising. Yesterday the UK Prime Minister no less called him a “complete idiot” On American rolling news tv he made the statement that Birmingham was a “totally Muslim city” and no-go for the Anglo-Saxon English. As

Use This Charity Tip For Your Proposal Cover To Stand Out

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/12/estherrantzensilverlinereport.jpg] I caught the New Year’s Honours List coming out of London first on Sky News. One recipient interviewed earned a Damehood for starting two major charities. The most recent of these, The Silver Line, is a helpline for the

Recognise This Dolphin Obsessed Culture?

A cheeky little holiday season post here for you. South African’s vibrant advertising sector is renowned for its sense of humour. Here’s an ad that shows this off nicely. We follow the ‘PA to the CFO’s PA’ as she flounders in the face of a clearly worrying

Quarterly Sales Meeting Slide Distraction

Wintering in the colonies means suffering the appalling customer ‘service’ of local tv provider dstv/multichoice. They run plenty of glossy ads promoting their add-on wares. The 30-seconder above was first shown around December 5th. How can you not like an ad that shows a quarterly sales meeting?! It all