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A collection of 505 issues

Presidential Pitching

The London press overflowed with images of French President Sarkozy’s wife, a former Italian model yesterday. It’s amazing how such a splash of celebrity glamour practically eliminated coverage of the real serious issue of precisely what it was he travelled to say. I caught glimpses of selections from

The Trouble With Words

I re-read this ‘book’ by John Simmons after discovering it in an old box full of heavy tomes skimmed through during my final stint of academia. The far too many years that have since passed may have dulled the brain, for I never remembered this pamphlet. I certainly hope I

The First 3 Slides

How many ‘corporate overview’ presentations have you delivered? There comes a point in most sales campaigns when the prospect wants to know more about your firm. My early selling days allowed me to select any from around 100 of the old 35mil projection slides. My elders and betters reckoned 45

Presentation Pauses & Structure

How many presentation skills training courses have you been on? It’s possibly the most common kind of sales-y training non-reps go on. There’s positively oodles of tips around the web, and to add to that surfeit, here’s three hints I took when hearing an explanation of just

Proposal Presentation Approaches

I’ve recently got delegated a new role, that of Purchasing Manager 🙂 where I’m poacher turned gamekeeper and am actually out buying some stuff. All a bit new to me, it’s looking to get some creative and technical work done. What’s interesting is that I’ve had