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VideoCallsThatSell

A collection of 264 issues

Zoom Booths; Pt 3 Cars

Hello Road Warriors. For many years we've been phoning from our motors. Can we now do the occasional video call from our treasured vehicles too? Well. The answer - provided we are not actually driving at the time - could be found from these examples. Perhaps then, the

Zoomscapes so far of the 20s; Pt 2 OBs

Outside Broadcasts. You ever been on a telephone conference call when outside? Then you'll know the travails of pressing the number for the 'mute' key when you want to toggle between your vital utterings. Else the whistling wind, street bustle or car engine surrounding you will

Video Cellscaping Tips From Clips; Pt 1 Bookcases

The first in my review series of our two years of mass zoomin' self-portrayals should appeal to those for whom the twitter feed of Bookcase Credibility [https://twitter.com/BCredibility] became indispensable, whilst it ran. > "What you say is not as important as the bookcase behind you.

8 Things Creatives Showed Us About Our New Videolink Epoch

> pic.twitter.com/o7fWqgdWdt [https://t.co/o7fWqgdWdt] — Cursed Commercials 📺 (@CursedAds) March 5, 2021 [https://twitter.com/CursedAds/status/1367688902409084929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Don't be like Coffee Steve. There's been plenty of promo piggybacking on WFH zoom calls. Above is one example, from a

You Don't Need To Spend A Grand, Unlike Adele

The snippet above links to a bookshop 'mole', confiding Adele's approach [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10679869/EMILY-PRESCOTT-Adele-spends-1-000-Chelsea-book-splurge.html] to curating her zoomscape. In short, she wants a certain style of backdrop for videoing from home. Decides she needs books behind her. Nips down to

Spring Statement Speech Sorter

Perhaps the most underused function in slideware is the ability to see all your slides at once in thumbnail. Known variously as the slide sorter view (Powerpoint), light table (Keynote) or grid view (Google Slides). It's where you can truly gauge the flow of your precious presentation. Measure

Old School Work Check Grade A Zooming

The geek in me loves screen-sharing, annotating multi-access docs and using apps such as online whiteboarding. Yet I constantly find myself urging those in video meetings to mix it up a little bit. I was privy to a meeting with around a dozen attendees. The 'host' was in

Comic's Big Top Needs

Here's the final paragraph from a London broadsheet pr interview promoing the upcoming stand-up tour of Dylan Moran. > "He gets out a sheet of paper and asks me what I want from comedy. “I want a lot,” he says, “I want redemption. I want to be

Standard Line-Up Two Years In

I was privy to a video call lately (outside of my 'coaching' capacity) where I realised a full range of backdrops was on display. The five-strong gallery featured the following broadcast settings; ~ coffee shop sky blue wall at an angle ~ virtual background majoring on a pinky-purple neon palette

Two-Thirds Misguided Domineering

A UK survey from a gambling focused marketing outfit gained the desired PR near the start of Feb looking at our secret Zoom tactics. Among the pyjama bottoms, parallel work-multitasking and pretending to be busier confessions, was this reveal; > Two-thirds of Britons surveyed admit setting their laptop camera at