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VideoCallsThatSell

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Rembrandt Reminder (not forgetting Vincent)

A tiny minority of people, including myself and Rembrandt, believe that you should site your webcam at a slight angle to the body. pic.twitter.com/p1RJ6koKhI — Rory Sutherland (@rorysutherland) August 28, 2020 I lament that it is indeed a 'tiny minority'. Yet we are in the right. Five years

Brummie Rock Legend Kitchen Backdrop

"Good morning!" So sang Ozzy. Cheerily. As filmed by his daughter at their English kitchen table in this poignant final clip. It's unclear whether he was locked into watching content on his tablet there. Or maybe he was preparing to video call, headphone-ready. Yet it's a setting with which we've

Telltale Bookcasing

the guy's a pro, already scrubbed all his socials, no pic of him online so, here goes pic.twitter.com/mTYNRcXcpC — Flo Crivello (@Altimor) July 2, 2025 This is a still from a video call. The reason given for its sharing by the above AI agent startup founder seems chilling.

What Does Mbappe Know That Most Zoomers Don't?

Tricky to truly relish football's first 'proper' world club cup tournament. Skewed qualification criteria, player burn-out ignorance, blatant money-grab by the dictator-friendly suits. American stadiums never designed for the beautiful game, climate conditions wholly unsuited for elite ties, poor pitches that would shame the grassroots. Yet once there, those in

Six Fingers Mirror Video Call Reminder

"I can't decide whether it's flattering or not, but it's certainly an engaging photograph" - Cressida Wetton, reviewing tomorrow's papers on Headliners I awoke in the country of my birth to hear of a remarkable parliamentary by-election result. It was the margin of selection that so struck. Six votes. The

Office Booth Challenger Zooming

Here's a link to a profile pic from London's Times I read over the long weekend. Of a challenger bank boss. Lauded for allowing bad credit raters to rise again, slated for charging 40pc credit card interest. Looking past the tonal dark blue jeans-jacket combo, I note the setting. An

3 (+1) Present-Day Meeting Rules

"When it comes to meetings, though, let’s agree on three things: be present, be on time and be good." That's the sign-off from an article, attributed to "anonymous", among last week's London's Times supplement special on Meetings. Clickbaitingly entitled, Do Gen Z just not understand work meeting etiquette? Much

Video Number Line

"Honey bees have recently been shown to count accurately up to five, understand the concept of zero and also order groups of objects left to right. Scientists call this the “mental number line” — whereby you start on the left with a small number and count up to the right towards

The Unagenda'd Sales Meeting

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gapingvoid Culture Design Group (@gapingvoid) For any Sales meeting, having an agenda is best-practice. My hunch though, is that only less than one-in-ten ever get one drawn up. Starting off with a vibe of, 'let's just have a chat' isn't typically

WFH Rate Remains Stubbornly Set

There's a great many reasons why our selling video skills must be honed. For one, the medium is not going away. Enterprise selling has long embraced the 'remote'. Videoing its modern-day extension. The ability to hold meetings over video ought be a pillar of productivity improvements that make a real