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Are You Too Precious About Your Own Branding?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/10/boktownbar.jpg] Here’s a shot taken waiting at the bar of the Springbok Pub. A watering hole of renown, if not quite of the latest in decor, next to the railway line along from Newlands rugby stadium, just the other side

A Reminder To Channel The Wisdom Of Crowds

This is something I often do in conference presentations. It’s a winner when you have a large audience. I was reminded of it when catching the engaging Robert Coles of Reuters discuss the recent Royal Mail privatisation. For those to whom this means nothing, shares in the UK’s

Do Political Heavyweights Know The Best Keynote Timeslot?

Party conference season is a soporific month of rolling news for those not engaged in the UK political scene. It ended this week. The final act being the Prime Ministerial address at his party’s shindig. According to the major tabloid The Sun’s managing editor, Stig Abell, the delegates

Modify A Famous Quote And Scramble Stacked Bars

If you’re into improving your presentations, you really ought know about Jessedee [www.slideshare.net/jessedee]. When brewing ideas for a slide deck recently, I revisited his curation of what he feels is good powerpoint. One livewireslideshow [http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/powerpoint-porn] captured around 100 slides he thought

Are Your Pitch Overruns Distracting Your Prospect?

Political party conference season is upon the UK. The smaller current coalition ‘partner’ has decamped to Glasgow. Only one national paper supported them at the last election. One of their journalists wrote a piece informing the world of their wonderful traffic light system to rein in speech droners. A bit

5 Ideas To Make Your Next Internal Sales Meeting Sparkle

What happens at your internal sales team meetings? Do they have purpose? Are they productive? Is there memorable variety? I’m fortunate to regularly attend sales meetings across the entire breadth of solution selling, b2b arenas. I often get asked what the best bits are from elsewhere by sales managers

Are You Circling In A Race To The Bottom Of The Drain?

Apple’s latest iphone launch garnered the now customary online explosion of comment. Analyses appear polarised. In one corner, the Job juggernaut remains stubbornly behind the Android crowd, most notably Samsung, because they did not offer a cheap entry-level model. In the other, the Cupertino crusaders are lauded for not

Can You Use The Power Of Handwriting?

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/reasonstobecreative.jpeg] I came across the above flyer online ahead of its recentevent [http://reasons.to/]. It reminded me of the power of the handwritten look. We all strive to make our docs and slides so perfect. Trendy fonts, perfect lines, the

Newsbar Pie Alternative

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/syria-anti-aircraft.jpg] [/content/images/wordpress/2013/08/syrian-food-medicine.jpg] With rolling news on in the kitchen background tonight, I caught various supposed luminaries state what should happen after chemical warfare emerged in Syria. The HD channels have for a while maxed out

Another Way To Ditch The Tired Pie

You may well know I strive to find and use different ways to present. Data or Message. The work of the leading infographic ‘artists’ got me going. Especially David McCandles. The tired old pie chart often shows up a page or slide as being stuck in the Eighties. Whilst if