All posts tagged "Personal impact"

• Stand Out

  Speakers need this much more than presentation training-

  I’ve mentioned Orwell before- See here.  And it’s still my view, as a speechwriter and presentation coach,  that if more speakers followed...

• Business Development

  The art of persuasion- What’s the best way to skin a cat?

  It’s a question I’m often asked by clients- “what’s the best way to sell an idea in a sales pitch?”.  The honest...

• Business Development

  Blogging Best Practices – Because you can grow your business by blogging

  I saw an article the other day that said 30% of new publishing contracts for business textbooks are being offered to bloggers,...

• Business Development

  The job of a consultant- In its simplest terms

  We’re restoring our house.  A beautiful, but bedraggled victorian place, in Oundle, UK. The previous owner lived here for thirty years and...

• Stand Out

  The best business book I’ve read- ever, and I’ve read loads

  I got it for Christmas.  From my wife. She loves me.  I was indifferent, to him.  For an Englishman, Lord Sugar of...

• Connecting with the audience

  A Brilliant Speech- the truth told simply

  I was a guest speaker at ‘Inside & Out’ yesterday. It was a networking event for London-based banks as a part of...

• Stand Out

  Write better proposals- Use a simple story structure every time

  A successful business proposal begins with a compelling framework – a structure for your proposal that sells your ideas in the context...

• Stand Out

  Principles- how quaint for a salesman?

  Whenever I say to someone ‘I’m a salesman’, it seems to put them on their guard.  Why? Probably because the reputation of...

• Business Development

  David Ogilvy- Confessions of an Ad Man

  Holiday reading, staying in a friend’s lovely home in the green mountains north of Barcelona, Spain, I’d finished the crappy novel and...