Posts By Jim Harvey
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Prezi
Prezi – Is it any good?
In the fusty old world of presentation software there’s a new kid on the block claiming to be a PowerPoint ‘Killer’. Is it...
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Fit Focus Flair
Crimes against the English language and your own business II
How about this for corporate nonsense- “Combining the strategy, business processes, implementation, and technical support skills of a CRM systems integrator with...
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Stand Out
Personal impact and how to get more of it
But if you want to get more of it it’d be pretty useful to have an idea of what people with great...
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Fit Focus Flair
Great quotations make stuff interesting and help people to remember your key points
One way to help us become more interesting to our audiences is to understand what they find interesting. Quotations are one of those things that can...
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Fit Focus Flair
Don’t finish with a whimper- Remember Rocky
You might not know that in the original script for the first “Rocky” movie written by Sylvester Stallone, in 1976, Rocky dies...
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Business Development
Many great businesses fail to show what value they can add to their clients’ businesses when they pitch…
Because they talk about their products and services from the wrong perspective. Inexperienced ‘sales’ people have an unfortunate tendency to talk from...
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Business Development
Why you might pitch even though you know you’ll probably lose
Sometimes it’s much easier to pitch with almost no hope of actually winning because you can be. Er… honest. I was involved...
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Confidence
How well can you expect to do if it’s the first time you’ve said those words out loud?
I read an article a few years ago about travelling preachers in 19th Century America. There were hundreds of the faithful fellows,...
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Business Development
How is pitching for business like seducing a supermodel?
I'd always be very nervous when one of your team bounces into your office at the gloomiest of times and says, 'There's...
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