Presentation Planning – Page 10 – The Virtual Presenter

Posted in Delivery, Presentation Delivery, Presentation Planning

Using a “hand-up” feature to your advantage

TheVP
posted on February 10, 2009December 1, 2011
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One thing in-person seminar speakers do naturally is ask for a ‘show of hands.’ And as I often argue, presenting virtually – in a new medium – changes things. Unfortunately, this means that many otherwise capable speakers fail to engage their virtual audience as fully as

Posted in Delivery, Online vs. Offline, Presentation Planning

How presenting live, via the web, is different. An intro.

TheVP
posted on February 1, 2009December 1, 2011
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One of the biggest problems with presenting online is a failure to adapt to the medium. Over and over I see experienced presenters, whether public speaking pros or senior corporate execs, deliver LAME online presentations because they either don’t see it or they fail to heed it. And

Posted in Content, Delivery, Design, Presentation Planning

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

Posted in Presentation Planning, Strategy, Web Seminars

Can you live without web seminars?

TheVP
posted on January 28, 2009December 1, 2011
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More than once I’ve presented for the American Marketing Association on the subject of “Irreplaceable Webinars.” The primary education of the presentation is that we as marketers think in terms of segmentation, and that should include thinking psychographically in terms of time

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