Delivery – Page 22 – The Virtual Presenter

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Where is THEIR “Point A?”

TheVP
posted on January 29, 2009December 1, 2011
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Point A is a big question, really. In planning your presentation, you’ve asked the first two key questions ~ Who is my audience, and what do I really know about them? What should they think, feel, or do as a result of my presentation? (Point B!) Now you need a Point A – a solid

How many slides?

TheVP
posted on January 19, 2009December 1, 2011
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I was on the phone with Jim today, and he gets it. He’s the chief sales training wizard at a company with 1500 sales people, and he described to me showing up to a presentation with lots of slides and not a lot of time. Consider this: I moderated a web seminar years ago for

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Not another “about me” slide

TheVP
posted on January 18, 2009December 1, 2011
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When should you use a ‘corporate background’ slide? You know the one that starts with a bullets like this: Founded: 1996 Offices: Mountain View, London, Troutdale If, and it’s a terribly big IF, it truly adds a demonstrable point of value to the person looking at it. And

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When NOT to repeat

TheVP
posted on January 6, 2009December 1, 2011
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Are you learning something new every day? At least doing enough poking around to be reminded of things that you once bumped into previously but forgot? Tom Antion is one of the first people I started reading before there were blogs, multi-tabbed browsers, or web conferencing and online

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Presentation impact: grab a pen

TheVP
posted on January 2, 2009December 1, 2011
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Another quick point about creating impact when delivering a virtual presentation: tell ’em to grab a pen. When you’re coming up on one of your key points in a virtual presentation, remember a common 1080 Group exhortation: assume they’re multitasking. Q: So how do you get