London, UK
There’s a webvideo of me now up at Selling.Success.TV I give a short introduction to the attributes required for successful cold-calling.
Jeremy Jacobs
Selling Successfully
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Good Morning London
Saturday, February 13th, 2010London, UK
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be assisting former BBC & LBC presenter Clive Roslin in the JNET studio between 9am and 12pm. We have some interesting guests so please join us. To listen in, go to http://www.jnetradio.com
I don’t expect we’ll have to concern ourselves with the issues highlighted in this clip, but you never know!
Share on TwitterSo You Think You’ve Got Talent
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009London, UK
Been catching up with a few media folk over the past few days, one of whom is Robert Fenton. Robert is a serial entrepreneur and details of his various business activities can be found on his website. They include a successful model and presenter agency.
One of his projects is Talent Expo. This show which takes place in June next year next year, is being heralded as the world’s largest talent fair & showcase and thousands are expected to visit the event which takes place over four days. Presenters, film crews, and tv production companies will be among those attending. Jeremy King of Event Magazine wrote:
The show aims to attract all of those aspiring entertainers and models who enter the many televised talent contests, such as The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and Britain’s Next Top Model.
In terms of exhibitors, Fenton is looking to attract those companies that supply products and services for the talent industry, those that employ the talent, and those that want to engage with them.
He explained: “It will be the perfect place for the likes of model agencies, entertainment agencies, scouts and producers to see the latest talent.”
The show will also provide visitors with the opportunity to learn more about the industry and how it works.
Read the rest of Jeremy’s article.
Tweetdeck Storms Ahead
Sunday, December 6th, 2009London, UK
I’ve just updated Tweetdeck to the latest version – v0.32.1. This allows users to add their Facebook and Linked-In feeds to existing Twitter accounts.
In similar fashion to the offering by Seesmic, one can now have a Web 2.0 experience with just one log-in. Really useful for me as I can see what’s cookin’ in the world of tv presenting, business and public-speaking in a single glance. Well almost!
Earlier this evening, I took a screen-dump of four of my eight Tweetdeck columns:
Football Farce
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Away from Wayne Rooney’s hat-trick at Portsmouth, goals galore at Upton Park and the exciting FA Cup 2nd round matches, an uglier side of football showed its face yesterday. The Chester City v Eastbourne Borough match in the Blue Square Premier was abandoned during the second-half. Not because of a sudden downpour but an outpouring of frustration by many dozens of Chester City supporters on the way their club (which is on the verge of extinction) is run.
In October 2001, I was reporting on a match at the Deva Stadium for the BBC. Most CCFC supporters who sat by the press box were concerned then about their club’s future and it would appear that their suffering has continued unabated for the past several years. Dr John Beech in his Football Management blog highlights the recent activity (A) (B) (C) at the troubled Cheshire club.
Readers of Dr Beech’s blog will have noticed that many clubs in the lower echelons of the football pyramid are under threat. In the next few days, we’ll see whether the clubs that represent Weymouth, King’s Lynn and Chester will be added to the list of “gone but not forgotten” which contains previous incarnations of Romford, Bedford and Guildford City together with the totally expired South Liverpool, Lovells Athletic, Rainham & Baldock Town.
Are you really looking forward to 2010?
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009London, UK
Over at my other, now defunct site Corporate Presenter, I listed my Top 10 prophecies for 2009. You’ll see that I wasn’t so far out with my 2008 list but with barely a month to go, I’m sure you’ll agree, I haven’t done so well this year.
A. Liverpool to win Premiership
B. Major car manufacturer to go under
C. Conservatives shatter Labour in an autumn general election
D. Sterling will bounce back in 2009
E. Major earthquake in southern hemisphere will kill thousands
F. Political change in Iran
G. Leading sports personality dies unexpectedly
H. U.S. President has mystery illness
I. Major train crash in France
J. Renowned world leader dies
The only success, were the horrific events in the South Pacific at the end of September. The earthquake and resulting tsunami caused 1000 or so deaths.
In a few weeks’ time and on this site, I’ll be posting my Top 10 prophecies for 2010. One of them maybe ‘England to Win World Cup’.
Do you have a low Google ranking?
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009London, UK
Content is key as far as search engine optimization (SEO) is concerned. This sound advice from my website designer has helped me increase my overall Google ranking and number of daily unique “hits”. The crawlers or “spiders” from the search engines visit a blog or website and checks out the content. They don’t seem to be concerned by colour, graphics or whether there’s a wonderful customer experience. There’s buck-loads of blogs and sites out there with superb designs and pretty graphics, but do they really have great content?
If you add blog section to your website and start writing interesting articles centred around strong keywords, “spiders” from search engines come to your website, pick up those keywords then list them in their database along with the URL of the website.
When the searchers use those keywords which have been positioned in your website, the search engine would add your website in the search results – the relevant keyword and the corresponding URL.
Over time, your website will slowly climb the search results but you must keep up the article writing. After three years of posting at Corporate Presenter, a Breast Cancer blog, and here at Jeremy Jacobs.com blogging for business or pleasure can be fun and rewarding.
Fila Fashion
Saturday, November 21st, 2009London, UK
Earlier this week, I was event host for a fashion show organised by Fila, the top international sportswear brand. Fila distributors from many parts of the globe were there to see the latest range which goes on sale in 2010. If you’ve seen “The Firm” you’ll be aware of the connection with the Fila brand
My co-presenter at Leicester Square Television (LSQ TV), Claire Bueno, was at hand on the red-carpet when “The Firm” had it’s premiere in September.
More Cold Calling Tips
Sunday, November 15th, 2009London, UK
A number of topics will be discussed at the cold-calling for business workshop this week. One of which will be what is best time to cold call prospective customers. Mel Stanton, a colleague of mine at a well-known photocopier supplier, used to call businesses before 9 o’clock in the morning and on many occasions after 5pm. Does this work for you? Sure it can minimise customer interference but how responsive will your prospective be after a difficult journey into the office or after an exhausting day? One great advantage of phoning out of normal working hours of course, is that you’ll probably bypass the gatekeeper or PA.
Whichever time you choose to cold-call, you must still have something worthwhile to say. In my experience, you usually have 20 or 30 seconds to do it, so be ready to think fast. When you get a positive response, you must ask for the appointment right away. Ask “‘Would Tuesday at 2.45 be suitable, or would Wednesday morning at 11.00pm be better?”
Be assumptive.
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