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5 Powerful Ways to Open a Presentation

5 Powerful Ways to Open a Presentation
We’ve all been there before: staring at the glow of your blank computer screen with no idea on how to open or start your talk. For starters, you should never be staring at PowerPoint with no clear objective (that’s a conversation for another day), but let’s be honest, we’ve all struggled with the best ways to open a presentation. It’s time to get unstuck. Here are 5 powerful ways to open a presentation: 1. Most people won’t be able to pull this off very easily, but if you are feeling like a rockstar during your next presentation, opt for silence. 2. I have two simple statements for you: -Prospective (looking to the future): “30 Years from now, your job won’t exist.” -Retrospective (looking to the past): “In 1970, Japan owned 9% of the market. The reality is that looking into the future or past always sparks engagement since that’s where our hearts live. 3. The easiest way to open a talk is simply to quote someone. 4. I don’t know about you, but I love Snapple. 5. Related Posts

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Latest Post By www.digitalinformationworld.com - craigdougan1208 - Gmail Bon et puis ça: c'est sur mon site officiel... - BERNARD WERBER OFFICIEL 5 Tips to Increase Your Product Value Part II of our popular creating a sales strategy , revolves around your company’s offering. This time however, we will give you 5 things you should do when articulating your product’s value to customers. In this case we will explain quickly and then use examples to hopefully get you thinking on easy ways to enhance your own product. 1. Be Specific. Different prospects and customers will have different needs. Join us next time for part III, creating a sales process.

The Case For Visual Literacy The way we’ve learned to communicate is wrong. Denizens of business, deep in the world of operations reviews, presentations and pitches, are communicating past each other, drowning in a sea of PowerPoint. It seems the general rule of corporate culture is to put that on a deck, or put some slides together. Many of you reading this will have lived through that ritual. We cannot speak to each other without consulting PowerPoint, talking in acronyms and using big words to confabulate our ideas. You have a choice. The choice behind door number one is to learn this arcane language of leverage and synergy, the buzzwords of hyper-growth and ecosystem, the acronyms of EBITDA and ARPU, and reskill yourself with PowerPoint. Behind door number two is a return to your roots. Door number two is a journey of unlearning the acquired jargon from your system and cleanse your palette of corporate BS. To understand why this is relevant now, more than ever, we must go back. Two million years.

Get Over Your Fear of Making Follow-Up Phone Calls Imagine you are on a trek in the Himalayas. Sherpas guide you as you behold stunning vistas of snow-capped mountains. You feel extraordinarily alive and vibrant. Then your party slows down as you come to a narrowing of the path. Ahead of you is something so unexpected that your heart leaps into your throat. What you see is a narrow rope bridge crossing a chasm over 100 feet wide. Your expansive feelings rapidly recede, to be replaced by blind terror. I think you can easily picture this scene and even feel the fear that would arise as you looked into the chasm. Now let's change the scenario. The morning after attending a local networking event, you look at the business cards sitting on your desk. Do you pick up the phone and call them? Not on your life. Premium Member Content Want to see more? Free Webinars: Access all on-demand webinars. Free Trial Already a Member?

Bleep : une messagerie en mode privé Si dans le cadre de votre travail, vous avez besoin de passer une conversation confidentielle sur Internet (loin de tout espionnage industriel), oubliez Skype. Il existe des messageries bien plus sûres, dont l’objectif est de garantir la confidentialité des communications. En juillet, les développeurs de BitTorrent, le célèbre logiciel d’échange de fichiers peer-too-peer (P2P) ont dévoilé une messagerie décentralisée et sécurisée. Ce logiciel, Bleep, se veut sécurisé grâce à son architecture, qui repose sur le P2P : pas de centralisation, les données partent de l’ordinateur de l’utilisateur jusqu’à celui de son correspondant, sans passer par un serveur tiers - contrairement aux messageries classiques, qui stockent, même temporairement, les données dans leurs machines. Les communications via Bleep sont intégralement chiffrées. Pour l’instant, Bleep est disponible sur invitation, en version “Alpha” - sous Windows 7 et 8 (mais le logiciel s’étendra vite à d’autres systèmes d’exploitation).

Sales - Avoid These Three Deadly Sins of Sales Messaging Salespeople's lips moving—that's how deals get done. Everyone talks about the importance of listening during the sales cycle; but, let's face it, no one buys from a mute salesperson. You eventually have to talk, and when you do, know this: The entire deal is riding on what you have to say, even more than what you have to sell. This article will discuss the three deadly sins of sales messaging and how you can successfully avoid them in order to create more demand and win more business. Sin No. 1: Blabbermouth You can still say too much—because you know so much and you assume your customer wants to know as much as you do. In reality, the more information you insist on giving your prospects, the worse you can make it for yourself. Sin No. 2: Self-focused Your prospects can probably predict the first six slides in your presentation deck. Customers live in their story and look at things from their point of view. Sin No. 3: Vanilla Pudding Repent and Sin No More It's important to your prospect.

The Secret to Activating Your Audience’s Brain If you are like me, you are always looking for the latest and greatest ways to do things faster, better, and cheaper. Personally, I get a thrill as I hunt for the best piece of hardware, software, or acclaimed process that will “change my life.” In the world of presentations, there is one key ingredient that will radically change them – specifically, how you engage your audience and how they perceive you. Tell a story. Why? It’s the most efficient way to activate and ignite your audience’s brain. Let’s look at the illustration below. When you share facts and stats with your audience: 1. 2. Hence, only two parts of your audiences’ brain will ignite when reacting to data. But, what if you tell a story instead? A story doesn’t spark agreement or disagreement but rather participation. If you want to see all of this in more amazing detail, here’s an entire infographic my team created a few days ago. Author Bio

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