The success of trade shows, conferences and exhibitions requires more than girls and giveaways and isn't measured by how many email addresses you collect.  Events like these have only one meaningful metric - ROI. This checklist shows you how to plan to maximise ROI - long before you pay a cent - and know for sure if it will be worth attending next time.  Read more

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Decision makers are more impatient and short of time than ever. That's why your White Papers must be shorter and sharper than ever. If they're long or boring, they'll be tossed out faster than a MacDonalds wrapper. I share our rules for creating White Papers that move minds - and are kept and shared.      Read more

Your Corporate Presentation is the one you bring out to dazzle new prospects - but what if you're competing with global players with deeper marketing pockets and more impressive client lists? How will you excite prospects to engage with you and not them? We show you 15 hacks to make your presentation unforgettable - regardless of your marketing budget.          Read more

When Malcolm Turnbull toppled Tony Abbott as PM in 2015, you could almost hear the cheers across the country, from Cairns to Hobart and Byron Bay to Perth. Such was the mood, the new PM could’ve done almost anything in the first 3 months and gotten away with it. But he did nothing. We remind the ex-PM of the 6 rules of effective leadership.
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At a time when we're drowning in a tsunami of content - web, email and social, good, bad and mostly irrelevant - we take a look at the rule book from one of the greats. If you want to cut through in less time with more impact, you can learn a lot from a master of the craft      
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The fastest way to look like an fool is to make simple mistakes. And, it won't matter how original your insights are if your audience turns off because you look like one. Thought Leadership hinges on credibility which can be smashed in seconds. Learn how to avoid the top 7 traps that expose the Fools.    
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This week the agile one, the innovator, the clean energy champion we believed was Malcolm Turnbull delivered his first budget via Treasurer Scott Morrison. We didn't have to dig to find no evidence of these traits. No wonder the word disappointment is now the one most associated with the PM.   Read more

When he beat Roger Federer in the recent Brisbane International, Leyton Hewitt managed to make himself look like a complete idiot, even though he'd won. Here's how not to accept an award - and why tennis players, too, need to add public speaking to their training schedules.  (image above: Fairfax Media).   Read more

Sales people who talk too much can kill the sale, but techies who can't talk at all or who blurt out 'facts' at inconvenient times can too. Discover how I learned from bitter experience (I was the former) why selling is a skill that both sales and technical teams need - and why we developed Soft Skills for Techies.   Read more