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A collection of 505 issues

Relentless Infomercial Zeal

Louis Theroux and his Weird Weekends [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux%27s_Weird_Weekends]. Over a decade ago he poked his nose in the world of tv shopping channels, centring on an American station in Tampa. Our first exposure was to a room full of presenters, fully pumped

Picture Your Prospects

I got a terrific wine rack, made from the staves of a Steenberg Merlot barrel by a Cape Town oak artisan [http://www.thatoak.co.za]. He spends most weekends in various shopping centres standing with a display of his craft. As I saw with my own eyes, his wares

Presentation Fires

Wandering through a London rail terminus bookshop I was visually walloped by a huge planagram for a series of books that herald themselves as ‘brilliant’. Suspecting coyness not to be an issue, I knowingly thumbed for a few minutes through one called Brilliant Presentation. It’s written by Richard Hall

The Bullet Point Problem

A magazine piece [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8207849.stm] on the Beeb’s news site poses an interesting question. How many memorable powerpoint presentations have you ever sat through? Almost since the day I discovered slide creation software (it was so long ago that is was

Corrective Repetition

Presentation skills training is a rare privilege in the career of a rep. I myself had a solitary half-day course in some central Birmingham hotel given as part of a national roadshow by a national training company. And the truth about their views are that they added for me practically

Presentation Trinity

Enjoyed a few cheekies with a pal the other night, and before watching the awesomeness that is this years Champions League, he asked me what quick-fire tips I could give him for how to make an effective presentation. With only a blink’s worth of thinking time, and under 60secs

4 Ingredients Or Less

Staying in a hotel on my travels around Blighty I happened across the slickest media operation by authors I can remember seeing in a long, long while. Two Aussie friends, busy Mums and cooking hobbyists, have unleashed a phenomenon in 4 Ingredients Or Less [http://www.4ingredients.com.au/]. As

A 2-Minute Talk

I was in a prospect’s reception yesterday suitably early and whilst waiting for my allotted hour, glanced through a paper on hand. I discovered a tale of how an author was put off performance for life after an unsavoury childhood experience. At school, he flunked a public speaking style

Rehearsal Jitters

I had another enjoyable and productive session with a funding endeavour [http://salespodder.com/cold-investment-pitch/] I’m helping in a new field yesterday. The main purpose was to rehearse the big 20-minute presentation pitch. We managed to get two ladies from accounts in to be a listening sanity check. Two

Rehearse

A short and simple message for the year’s end. But one with clout. Someone once asked me for my ultimate top tip when it comes to presenting. As they were in Marketing (wanting to craft a presentation aimed at getting a foot in the door at large organisations) I