The Eyeful Blog
This is where we share whatever excites our storytellers, presentation designers, or trainers (or, on occasion, gets them hot under the collar).
You might be looking for pithy sales presentation best practice or the very latest thinking on PowerPoint design. If it’s presentation related, chances are you’ll find it on our blog (we’ve even made it searchable to make it quicker and easier to access the good stuff).
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Why are you presenting?
We (socially distance) gathered the great and good from Eyeful to share their tips for creating the most compelling and engaging presentations. Presentations are a broad church, from the creative to the practical, so we hope this series of tips helps keep you on the straight and narrow.
Stifled Sales Conversations & Missed Opportunities
There are few things that rile us Eyefulites more than preachy sales presentations. You know the type of thing – a salesperson uses their set of linear PowerPoint slides to beat their audience into submission. No, we are all about Audience led engagement for presentation success.
The Zen Art of Pitch Presentations
Pitch presentations never fail to get my heart beating little quicker (and not always in a good way). It may have something to do with the fact that the pitch presentation represents the final stage of a long, winding and often stressful road. The culmination of...
The Power of Unlearning
Today’s B2B presentations are under attack from two flanks: Dated best practice advice Habit One of the few silver linings from the lockdown is that point 1 has been put under greater scrutiny than ever before. The enforced adoption of new technologies like Zoom and...
Presentation Pivot…in 10 days
The latest in our ‘In Conversation’ videos features the brilliant presentation coach and author, Caroline Goyder.
Outcome Based Presenting – Unlocking Presentation ROI
Over the last 15 years or so, we’ve made a bit of a name for ourselves by focusing on the ‘business’ of presentations. While this may seem pretty obvious, most presentation blogs, books and YouTube videos obsess over the virtues of powerful design or the perfect...
Presentation Training Done The Right Way
Presentation training is a bit like swimming. You can read the books, watch the videos and have an intimate understanding of the theory…but you never really learn until you dip your toe in and have a go. It was this realisation that prompted one of the senior sales...
Accessing Hidden Stakeholders – A Perennial Sales Headache
B2B sales cycles have evolved to the point where the part played by the ‘traditional sales presentation’ is almost unrecognisable. Lines have become blurred with multiple decision makers engaged throughout an extended sales process. At each key stage, stakeholders...
