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The Edinburgh Festival One-Liner That Helps Keep Your Audience Attentive

The Edinburgh Festival draws to a close. It’s been too long since I last went there. Here’s one of this year’s most reported gags of the comedy Fringe. From stand-up Ben Target; > Pop up your hand if you like participating in market research Haha. Reminded me straight

Overcome Flipchart Phobia Like Future Football Coaches

Posting yesterday’s ‘sport & selling’ blog reminded me of hearing rugby union and all-round coaching guru Sir Clive Woodward. Sir Clive mused that only the true winners can bound up to the flipchart and explain a skill to you. It coincided with shared findings from a UEFA Pro Licence course.

Lies, Damned Lies & Pies

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/02/80-20-pies.jpg] Pie charts. A victim of their own success. In true contemporary infographic innovation, I’ve found people respond very well to pie evolution. Above are six ‘pies’. The traditional is top-left. Each one depicts the same data. An 80-20 split.

Do You Use A Flip Chart Like TV Oxford Professor?

[/content/images/wordpress/2014/07/Lewis-Generation-of-Vipers-Prof-Miranda-Thornton-400x280.jpg] Lewis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_(TV_series)]. How lucky we were that Morse changed the telly detective game. So in a sofagrab of downtime I watched the episode Generation of Vipers. The ‘lonely feminist lecturer’ pictured above was its first murder

Flag Up Your Memorability

[http://www.nzflag.com/] So I sat through a presentation depicting an international firm’s regional goals. Several countries were given a slide and a half each. Each was announced by a pic of their flag. Neat, you might think. Well, a little boring, I’d say. I was reminded

When Short Of Slidedeck Colour Ideas

[http://www.pantone.co.uk/pages/index.aspx?pg=21129] Following on from earlier colour suggestions where you’re client has only monochrome schemes. I found that many a colour company creates PR around ‘trends’. First up, Pantone. They anoint their own ‘colour of the year’. And why wouldn’t

When Your Audience Are More Likely To Embrace A Key Number

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/05/embrace-2014-album-cover.jpg] This is the artwork from a new album I’ve recently listened to a few times. The swirling influences from Joy Division meets 80s goth meets 70s pub rock of the band, Embrace [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_(English_

Make A Sentence Stand Out

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/05/text-block-alt-hires.png] For all the need to limit text in your slides, there’s plenty of times when you simply have to throw a bunch of words onto the screen. Where it’s a memorable quote, there are ways of doing so

Using The Tell-Show-Tell Demo Formula Evolution?

I tagged this ‘presentations’, but really it’s about a specific niche here; demonstrations. The first decade of my career heavily involved the demo-ing of software. From what’s now called ERP, right through to data warehousing-business intelligence wizardry. Then came the Millennial dotcom boom, it was all about on-demand

Bar Chart Option To Give You Locomotion

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/04/wpid-railgrowth400x572.jpg] I could hardly believe my eyes. Walking past an English rail terminus, a full-blown presentation slide! Bar graphs are as tired as the dear old pie. I’ve blogged on these countless times in my presentation category. Yet here is