You’ve probably sat in a presentation that made you long for a fire drill or a burst pipe to release you from the tedium. A boring presentation can be the result of many factors: unimaginative or irrelevant content, poor execution or lack of preparation, but often the problem starts with

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While you may never experience an interruption of Kanye proportions during your presentation or demo, you’ve probably encountered one of these 4 personality types who consciously or unconsciously seem hell bent on derailing your presentation. Handle it poorly, and you can find yourself back at square one with your prospect

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Why you Need to Create Urgency in your Presentation Longer sales cycles and busier prospects dealing with multiple and often conflicting priorities make the need to create urgency during your presentation, dare I say, “urgent?”  I am not of course referring to the manufactured “This is the last one we

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Spotlight, 2016’s  Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay, proved yet again that a good story, well told can pay big dividends. Storytelling can pay big dividends in your sales presentations as well when you follow a few rules. The first rule is critical to the success of your story, and that

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You already know who won the Oscars for the announced categories, but do you know who won the award for Best…or Worst Presenter?  Or the Best “Addressing the Elephant in the Room?” If you look at The Oscars from a sales perspective, it’s a great collection of mini-presentations and monologues given

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A group of flight attendants in matching uniforms strolled through the boardroom handing out drinks and snack-sized peanuts to the executive audience in the boardroom. After some puzzled looks, one of the flight attendants announced: “Buckle your seat belts, you’re in for the ride of your life!” Landlocked training program?

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Imagine having just 18 minutes to deliver your sales presentation. Could you make your key point, engage your prospect, and motivate him to take action? Thousands of TED speakers attempt to do just that with audiences each year — many with fantastic levels of success. Ted Talks are viewed about 1.5

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A good slide deck is often the price of entry for serious consideration by today’s buyers.  Shabby slide decks reflect poorly on you, your company and your solution. However many salespeople don’t have the time or expertise to create a work of art. Fortunately, you don’t need to be an

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Click on the screen above to see the video Stories can serve a variety of purposes in your presentation. The right story can grab your prospect’s attention, draw him in, give him a new perspective on your solution or value, or overcome an objection. An area where stories are particularly

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This is a guest post from the pros at PGI. Enjoy! Sales professionals are constantly looking for new ways to not only drive more leads, but simply stand out from their competition. Generating and tracking leads has become increasingly more difficult with the influx of new selling disciplines (social selling,

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What does it take to deliver a winning sales presentation today? Whether it’s breaking the mold like groundbreaking TV series Seinfeld or Lost, or using new tools to increase interaction, you have to think differently today to keep busy audiences engaged and interested.  Here are 10 quick tips to start

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If you told me before I watched The Big Short that a champagne-drinking Margot Robbie in a bubble bath would help me better understand how subprime mortgage bonds worked, I would have called you crazy. And that wasn’t the only complex economic concept this fast-paced film sheds light on while

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