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Engage Your Audience With Stories

The most effective way to connect with your audience, to teach them and to help them remember your message is through storytelling.   Stories are effective because they:  Help Us Learn -Think about...

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The Text May Be A Bit Too Small to Read

One very important question to ask when designing presentation slides is: “Will the audience be able to read your text?” It seems like an obvious question but it’s clear from many presentations that...

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Speaking to a Non-Technical Audience: The Mammy Test

Image: JD Hancock (Flickr) Sometimes after years of working with technology or business terms, certain ideas and concepts seem so obvious that we forget that not everyone understands them. We need to...

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Presentation Tip: Starting With Strength

At a recent conference there was a very popular speaker and he was great, the room was packed, people were squeezed in everywhere. It was probably the best presentation of the conference. He was a hard...

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Preparing For Q&A Sessions

Image: Kris Krug/PopTech(flickr) Allowing your audience to ask questions can be quite daunting for most presenters because you never know what you’re going to be asked. The best way to reduce the...

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Three Great Ways to Structure Your Presentation

Image: Vancouver Film School (Flickr) 1. Say What You’re Going to Say There are many ways to structure a presentation, a very popular method is the one summed up by Dale Carnegie as:   say what you’re...

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20 Phrases To Avoid In Your Next Investment Pitch

image: Mike Schinkel (Flickr) I’ve sat through hundreds of investment pitches and so many of them are filled with tired, over-used cliches and buzzwords. I know that the pitchers use those terms to try...

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Looking Good In Q&A Sessions

image: UK Highways Agency (Flickr) For some speakers Q&A sessions are like Russian Roulette, you never know when that deadly question is going to destroy your credibility. There are two key ways to...

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Presentation Q&A: How Can I Stop People Tweeting During My Presentations?

Image: Maryland GovPics (Flickr) It’s easy. Be interesting. Be so interesting that people forget that Twitter even exists. Great speakers do it every time they speak. And the secret? Connection. They...

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Keep It Simple

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