VideoCallsThatSell

The photo linked to above was recently shared by an American politician local to a Tesla facility where he met Elon Musk. My first impression was, how strangely 'normie' the conference room. Which these days seems hardly the chased look, hey. Around the same time, Tesla opened its latest battery

This is a daytime talking head spot as presented by a large polling organisation appearing on a rolling news channel. I glimpsed this late afternoon display by chance. An instant double-take. I've seen this zoomscape a lot lately. Particularly from this location. Near to Silicon Roundabout. Around the North East

I continue to be surprised by the lesser-spotted curated zoomscape. I blogged on findings of a survey recently, suggesting that two-in-three companies have created a specific space in the office for video calling. My experience differs. Even if such a place exists, the thought put into it seems misaligned to

Above chart from behind London's Times paywall, dated 23rd October 2023. As they drool over the recruitment surveyor's PR interpretation, "the tide is turning on hybrid working". Whether you prefer unstoppable trend or mere stabilisation is though irrelevant. Salt-pinching can lead into rabbit holes such as vested interest bias or

'Few companies have systematically institutionalised what they learnt from their Covid-19 experience' précis of Martin Reeves, chair of Boston Consulting Group’s BCG Henderson Institute How does your sales operation stack up on this observation? What was there to learn from? Not just from video calls but Remote Sales in

"the economic case has massively weakened with the changes to business travel post-Covid" UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's words this week. Significantly diverting resources, focus and funds - he cited a figure of £36bn, commentators offer numbers north of £50bn - away from the fiasco that grew from attempting to

Voice Your Emotions, Text the Facts One of seven (plus one) modern-day contacting tips I read from the clickbait title, 'etiquette expert explains the new phone rules'. My Sales brain instantly added to the above; Voice Your Emotions, Text the Facts, Video to Progress with Emotions and Facts. This struck

My recent riff on our potentially just begun 6th Wave of innovation made me think of another wave we seem to be in. The never-ending explosion of coffee shops with what they call 'third-wave coffee'. The first wave cited as the amassing industrialisation of retail coffee shops. The second, the