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	<title>Powerful Pointy Presentations &#187; General</title>
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		<title>Sales Presentations What Are You Selling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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I was inspired to put this worksheet together from a discussion thread on linekdin. to quote the thread owner Tony Robinson Sales trainer, coach and consultant ;

What is it that you really sell?
Some years ago a Harley Davidson marketing  executive, when asked this question, famously said..&#8221;what we sell is the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Horse&#8221; Caption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My presentation friend David Upton introduced me to this concept.
If it&#8217;s bleedingly obvious what the picture is, don&#8217;t put a caption on it, the audience will think you&#8217;re doubting their intelligence.
Here&#8217;s an example:

There is plenty of good information on how to apply captions here





		
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		<title>Learn Presentation Skills From Radio Announcers – part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post we talked about personalising your presentation with &#8220;you&#8217; phrasing and how to avoid &#8220;umm&#8221; and &#8220;err&#8221;.
Radio announcers can teach us much more about how to conduct an effective PowerPoint presentation.
Radio Voice
The first thing is that you don’t need a “radio voice” to be successful. The trend over the last twenty or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PowerPoint Presentations Reducing Performance Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/12/powerpoint-presentations-reducing-performance-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s natural to be a little anxious or nervous before your big presentation and certainly preparation, planning and practice beforehand will help.
(Prior preparation and planning prevents p!ss poor performance). However if you still beel nevous before the presentation, here are some tips.
This one comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Start rehearsing  your preparation, at the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Presentation Skills From Radio Announcers &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/11/learn-presentation-skills-from-radio-announcers-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Learning from Others]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Presentations, focus on &#8220;You&#8221;
Here are a a couple of tips on presenting from a radio announcer&#8217;s point-of-view.
Who does a radio announcer speak to? This is a trick question. The answer is  a singular “YOU” – good radio announcers don’t say
“Hello to all you  listeners out there” , they say something like;
“Hello, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Powerpoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About Us Acme Widgets

View more presentations from Bill Kernoczy.
If your presentation looks anything like this then you&#8217;re in deep trouble. There&#8217;s lots of problems here, but guess what &#8211; I&#8217;ve actually been forced to watch presentations like this. Most of the information given rates as &#8220;Care Factor &#8211; Zero&#8221;. Are you unwittingly boring your clients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 &#8211; The Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At some time during introduction to your powerpoint presentation, you&#8217;re gonna have to &#8220;tell &#8216;em what you&#8217;re gonna tell &#8216;em&#8221;. Naturally you can introduce an agenda slide like this.

And after you&#8217;ve described your agenda , you should explain how long you expect the presentation to take and ask for agreement.
But there&#8217;s potential pitfall here. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction &#8211; Presentation Skills</title>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/08/introduction-presentation-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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Bored with Presentations?
How many terminally boring presentations have been inflicted on you?
How often have you seen the same old recycled rubbish?
Do you really want to be that presenter?&#8221;
You probably don&#8217;t, because you&#8217;re looking at this site. You can be a credible, dynamic presenter by following a simple process, observing communication around you, adapting it to [...]]]></description>
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