Two people I recently coached from two different start-ups made the same error in their PowerPoint presentations, so, if you show PPTs in your online client meetings or webinars, I thought I would share this tip with you.
Which of these do you do when your desk is a mess and you can’t deal with everything on it anymore? Freeze? Leave? I bet you ultimately re-arrange things into more manageable piles. Why? Because your brain becomes frazzled and momentarily short circuits. It cannot absorb so many seemingly equally important stimuli demanding your attention, …
The good news is you have a portfolio of sexy services to offer. The bad news is you have a portfolio of sexy services to offer. How do you present them so you don’t swamp yourself and your listener with all the features and benefits of each? Use a Single Visual Supposed you have seven products/services …
If anyone still doubts the power of an image in a presentation or metaphor to evoke a reaction, just look at this. I live in Manhattan, a very bustling place. However, last evening, you had to see all the people in the street standing still in awe, re-living their emotions in memory of what happened, …
Which of these do you do when your desk is a mess and you can’t deal with everything on it anymore? Freeze? Leave? I bet you ultimately re-arrange things into more manageable piles. Why? Because your brain becomes frazzled and momentarily short circuits. It cannot absorb so many seemingly equally important stimuli demanding your attention, …
A famous American theatrical producer and director once said, “If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.” The complex information you present may not ever lend itself to being written on the back of a calling card, but it does not have to overwhelm your buyers either. I came across a brilliant example of how one firm used what I call “Visual Algebra” to simplify the complexity of what is arguably one of today’s most convoluted industries to understand. See how you can do the same for your business.
They say when everyone is buying, you should sell and when everyone is selling, you should buy. The same holds true in presentations. If everyone is using PowerPoint, then do the opposite: use plain old paper and pencil. You will have greater impact and be more memorable. Grab a pen (or two if you want a second …
A participant in a recent presentations seminar called it PowerPoint’s most valuable real estate, which, in addition to being a great metaphor, is also an accurate description of the key portion of any slide. That is the headline. Build on Solid Ground Imagine a chart in a sales presentation displaying growth of the different players …
We don’t need any ghosts to scare us today. Hurricane Sandy already took care of that. If you have been following the storm’s story, then you have seen the horror of her destruction and are speechless at the scale and depth of the human tragedy involved.
For any who doubt the power of pictures and props to make a point, consider Prime Minister Netanyahu’s use of both in his speech to the United Nations Thursday on the dangers of Iran’s nuclear plans.