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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The (Sales) Power Of Toolkit Presentations
Are you blowing your sales chances on the first date..?Picture the scene…After much time wooing a wonderful potential partner, they agree to a first date. You sit down, pour the wine and then you start talking…and talking…and talking. You throw everything you can at...
Eyeful Stories: The FM Company
Customer Sector: Facilities Management Presentation Type: Sales Presentation Timescale: 6 weeks from initial engagement to roll-out The Background: Mergers and acquisitions bring complexity and risk. This client came to us following a large acquisition of a...
Hitting The Snooze Button
You can see your audience fighting sleep. Their eyelids heavy, heads nodding (but not in a good way) and yawns being muffled.You begin to suspect that your presentation is the root cause of this mass-snoozefest. Is the message not on point? Is the content too dry? Are...
The Importance Of Putting Your Best Foot Forward
You wouldn’t turn up to an important meeting, interview, or pitch wearing an old pair of jeans and a scruffy T-shirt. You may have heard it many times before, but the ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression’ cliché stands up to scrutiny, especially...
Your Audience Don’t Deserve You
You’ve sweated long and hard over your presentation. You’ve convinced yourself that the hours of preparation, rehearsal and anxiety attacks were going to be worth it. Visions of a standing ovation kept you going.And then the reality of your audience kicks in. They’re...
Hard Lessons Learned On The Hidden Costs Of Presentation Developments
Many years ago, in a pre-Eyeful life, I was given the fantastic opportunity to head up a cracking team of developers, salespeople and marketeers to launch a ground-breaking product into Europe on behalf of our US parents.This was huge. The software in question was...
Eyeful Stories: The Coffee Company
Customer Sector: Food & Beverage Presentation Type: Pitch Presentation Timescale: 2 weeks from initial engagement to pitch presentation The Background: Launching into a new marketplace is always a challenge. That challenge is even bigger when you are looking to...
Drowning Your Audience In Data
You didn’t have time to prepare properly for your presentation so you’ve decided to go down the ‘throw enough information at them and some of it will stick’ route.Your poor audience are now drowning in data. Much of it irrelevant, almost all of it disconnected. As a...
