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A Compelling Core Message

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When you deliver a presentation pitch on your company, how many bullets and words are on your average page?  The answer should be less than 25 words per slide, and no bullets!  Imagine if you were in the audience, what would you want to hear?  Something compelling, something relevant, perhaps even a story? What you… Read more »

Story Telling Presentations

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Take a close look at the sample above. It’s a medical presentation from The President of a major medical healthcare group. Probably not what you’d expect in that vertical for presentation material? If you looked at the slides you will notice very few words on each slide example. This presentation was a smashing success for… Read more »

Visual PowerPoint Slideshow

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Every once in a while at the end of a compelling message PowerPoint presentation, you might have a need for a high volume of visuals to be shown. In the case of the example above The State University of New York (SUNY), Oneonta campus, has finished their introduction presentation to prospective students and  parents, and… Read more »

A Bit of Humble Advice

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Need help avoiding a “cow patty” presentation? The one that’s loaded with bullets, charts and overblown value propositions? Imagine having someone to write the newly refreshed story and build dynamite graphics, while you focusing your attention elsewhere. Do we have your interest? If so check out the following link… t.co/EOAbQaoE

Capability Slide Library Presentations

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Assuming you have a core compelling message presentation, it might be time to offer some flexibility to your business development staff and supply them with a capability slide library.  Like the example above, these libraries usually consist of 20 to 35 PowerPoint slides that are in ‘reserve’ and at the disposal of the business developer…. Read more »

Core Messaging

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Does core messaging affect a presentation , and other selling collaterals?  Most companies today have an idea of what their selling proposition is, however determining what messaging is placed on a business development presentation versus on a web site, trade magazine advertisement or sales teaser can be daunting. You don’t want to assume it’s all… Read more »

Presenting to Multiple Audiences

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  Sometimes you have to present to a diverse group, just like this organization was required to do in the sample shown above. There may be industry executives, industry media and analyst in the same audience. How do you connect with all the constituents groups with just one presentation? The answer is a story. We… Read more »

Make Your Presentation 4G LTE Bandwidth

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How do we build presentations that embrace the audience? Did you know that less content per slide allows the mental bandwidth of the audience to quickly determine the slide messaging? If the audience can grasp the general messaging of the slide in under four seconds, similar to an advertisement, then there’s a fair chance that… Read more »

Presentation by E-mail

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  In today’s business world it is becoming common for a prospective party to request a presentation be sent via PowerPoint for review.  If there is any way to send an alternative, shorter document we would suggest not sending a full presentation and holding out for a live face to face or webinar presentation at… Read more »

Giving Your Business Developers Great Presentation Tools

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Business developers in tough economic times need to be able to put their best foot forward for every opportunity. A presentation sales deck can make or break the service or product differentiation that you hope makes it into the prospects mind. Building the right deck requires an understanding of the sales force, presentation styles, the… Read more »