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presentations

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A Tweetable Definition

Relax, this is not a blog post commanding or even imploring you to take up tweeting. I am though very much an advocate of the brevity it requires permeating through the sales arena. Not quite with all of the text speak and grammatical liberties mind you. A while ago I

Animal Quote Bandit

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2011/07/tiger-roar.jpg] A weekend post with a potential single slide idea for those inclined to be a touch ‘motivational’. Not that I necessarily recommend this approach, but for the odd internal rah-rah it can (just) have a place. It also serves as

Making Your Presentation Stick Chip & Dan Heath

An addendum to their magical 2007 storytelling roadmap Made To Stick, this October 2008 [http://www.scribd.com/doc/11596382/making-presentations-that-stick] four page pdf offers a couple of extra pointers for anyone trying to create a prizewinner presentation. It’s well worth the read. If you’ve not read their

€1¼bn Corporate Overview

[http://www.durr.com/en/company/overview/] Here’s a company presentation I came across recently that, according to the filename as accessed above, seems to have been completed on 23 February earlier this year. It’s evidently fully sanctioned and publicly available. Unfortunately, I fear it would sit firmly

Presentation Statements

I was helping someone with a couple of slides the other day. In essence, they were a list of statements. Each one listed a fact, or the impact of that fact. This is probably the biggest reason why people switch off during presentations. The instant a new slide appears, people

Conley's Running Order

Brian Conley could possibly do more corporate conference work in Britain than any other celebrity. His brand of family entertainment includes song, comedy and both game and chat show hosting. I’ve attended several such events and have strangely noticed how a star turn can flop. Brian Conley knows this

Harvard MBA B-Plan Judge Tips

I occasionally blog on the murky world of business plans for two main reasons. I often get paid to help write them so have live exposure to their vagaries and I think many a pitch or proposal (especially a brand new product one) can benefit from lessons learned in this

Big Red Button

One of my friends passed on his secret personal presentation ethos to me. The central strand upon which everything hangs is that he must hit big red buttons. He makes sure that before his slot he has identified every single irritation that the prospect suffers. (He feels people either buy

Change The World With Nancy Duarte

This work is from presentation masters Duarte Design [http://vimeo.com/duartedesign]. My view is succinct. It takes a few minutes to truly get there. But when the meat arrives, it does so with a bang. Bam. If you present, you simply must watch it. [http://blog.duarte.com/] What

Product Placement

In the aftermath of yesterday’s UK Budget, here’s a neat piece of PR using photoshop-style trickery. [http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8400728/How-to-make-the-budget-fashionable-Avoid-budget-fashion.html] It alters the traditional image of the Chancellor holding aloft his famous Red Box. In this case, instead “George Osborne shows off his