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VideoCallsThatSell

A collection of 264 issues

Video Call Lab

A recent call to form your Sales Labs Unit brought to mind the absence of genuinely effective best-practice driving initiatives I observe in our sector. Technology alone is not the answer, people. Anyways. There’s a new area in town that suffers through this neglect. I remain flabbergasted at how

Superstar Phone Video Backdrop

Adele. A name known to all. About to plaster the public psyche with the imminent release of her fourth album ‘era’; 30. Or more accurately, a room in which Adele sat. As she spoke with her adoring faithful. She broadcast her, so she said, first ever Instagram Live over the

Welcome Back to the Office

Where I currently am, a legislation-provoked deadline looms. Come the end of September, the government will cease to pay the wages of those furloughed during the pandemic. Overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) featuring white-collar workers not only barred from being in the office, but also prohibited from working from anywhere else,

Change One Word Meme

I often get asked for icebreaker ideas. I’m not a fan of these normally. They are too contrived. You can lose people early, rather than get their juices flowing. And there is the wholly misplaced genre of being asked to reveal something about yourself. Which I feel should be

Is First Video Call Like A First Date?

Well now. Let’s see. Body language expert Judi James gets plenty of media work in England these days. This particular appearance delves into the physical cues on a first date that can save you heartache. Clickbait indeed. Excellent host Rob Rinder (L) with recently (re)dating producer Beth Keeley

Screening Call Pre-Video Also A Dating Tip

Prevailing advice for an app-made first date is to hold a video call beforehand. The mainly reported theory being that there’s an alarming, overwhelming minority of wannabe daters that ‘catfish’. Namely using photos that give a misleading impression of themselves. Or in extreme yet sadly plentiful cases, are not

Post Pandemic Training Opportunity

Will the hybrid meeting, blended working, flexible half-remote near-future of the next year or so bring more or less workplace training? There’s a burning current question for b-school undergrads and business team leaders alike as commerce learns to live with the coronavirus. You’d hope it’s the former.

Adapting Newsreader Screen Body Language

Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije seems closing in on a decade of tv rolling news and standalone bulletin presenting experience in London. She now also displays her talents in the more fluid setting of three-hour hosting. In the stream, it was the first six [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekL3PCEPzCE] minutes that

8 Minutes Optimum Conversation Time

With the new academic year imminent across England, there’s a rush from ‘cloud’ comms providers to chase down school spend for video based systems. The revelation from education budget holders in part, being that there are a number of virtual events conducted by necessity over the coronavirus restrictions which

Do G7 Have World Leading Zoomscapes?

It’s been eighteen months now. I often encounter the objection myself. An expression of numptiness that goes along the lines of, ‘we don’t need any help with video calls, as we’ve been doing them throughout the pandemic now and use zoom/teams/whatever as well as slack/