How Many Slides Do You Need For A Whatever-Minute Presentation?
“How many slides do I need for a 10 minutes presentation?” “I have 30 minutes. Do I need 30 slides?” “I have a 60-minute presentation coming up and I don’t want to bore my audience to death with slide-overload. What do I do?” If I had a dollar for every time I get a question […]
How A Single Presentation Made My Client Hate Me
Five years ago, I was asked to put together a deck for a client. What the deck contained doesn’t exactly matter; how I developed that deck, however, does. The premise of this was simple; I already had all the information in hand and didn’t exactly need to do anything but make the slides look “good.” […]
Why You Should Never (Ever) Memorize Your Presentation
I get it. Memorizing your presentation seems like a good idea. After all, every presentation you give is an opportunity for you to show off what you got in front of people that matter. Naturally, you’re planning to do everything you possibly can to reduce your risk of flopping in front of your audience, as […]
A Presentation Tip Learned by Watching Someone Punch Her Own Face
I can already feel your doubts. You’re probably thinking that this post is mere click-bait. You may even think that “watching someone punch herself in the face” is just a metaphor or an analogy for a presentation tip. Folks, I promise you, you won’t be disappointed. In fact, I want you to take this presentation […]
A Golden Rule Of Persuading Your Presentation Audience To Do Anything
The ultimate goal of a persuasive presentation is, you guessed it, to persuade your audience to do something. It sounds easy in theory, but the truth is a lot of presenters fail to convince their audience to do, well, anything. In fact, persuasive presenters often end up with an audience that isn’t even paying attention to […]
Looking for Presentation Advice? Smell Your Own Fart (Yes, Seriously)
Yes. Seriously. There was a time when I looked to an old mentor of mine for presentation advice. He told me to smell my own my fart. Now I understand that the idea of this piece could be a little grotesque, but hear me out – the advice was pretty good. The Context It reminds […]