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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But What About Me? The Art of Talking About Yourself in Presentations
We all know that presentations need to focus on the number one stakeholder – the audience.
But if this is the case, how and when do you possibly get the opportunity to talk about YOU?
Is Your Presentation A Dating Disaster?
Business presentations and dating have more in common than you might think. Great presentations happen when there is a connection between presenter and audience. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true – presentations fail when there is a disconnect.
How can you guarantee not getting a second date? Be self-obsessed, monotonous and, frankly, boring. Why, then, do so many sales presentations fall foul of these same issues?
“What’s Next?” – Tools That Sustain The Conversation After The Presentation
Increasingly the ‘Communicate’ phase of presenting is just the start. You’ve used presentation storytelling to share your sales presentation message, and your audience is hooked…but not quite ready to move on.
There are hidden stakeholders to consider.
There are numbers to be crunched and business cases to be reviewed.
So how do you keep the conversation focused and your sales presentation messaging top of the agenda?
Simple – by using different tools and techniques to SUSTAIN your presentation message.
In Conversation – Don’t Be Afraid To Pop The Question
For a presentation to be of value, it needs to drive change.
You can present the most compelling data, the most engaging stories, and the most profound insights, BUT fail to prompt action from your audience and nothing changes. So what was the point in presenting?
Find out how to incorporate small ‘Call to Action’ changes into your next presentation. The results will speak for themselves.
Show Them You Care
It’s easy to assume that a PowerPoint presentation design agency would focus on nothing other than slides. Wrong! Corporate presentation design delivers value, but combine this with presentation storytelling, and things get exciting. Fill that presentation storytelling with emotion, and you unleash a superpower! Learn how great storytellers, from Charles Dickens to the team behind ‘Toy Story’, use emotion to make audiences care (and then take action).
Is That It?! Why ‘Any Questions?’ Is The Worst Way To End Your Presentation
The ending of a presentation is incredibly important. So why do so many presenters leave their audiences hanging with an abrupt ending, little reason to return or worse still, the dreaded ‘Any Questions’ slide?
The answer? A clearly defined call to action.
Presentation Storytelling is Child’s Play
“I believe children are our future”, once crooned Whitney Houston. How true this is, especially in the fast-moving world of presentations. Our latest blog takes inspiration from our children and their approach to presentation storytelling and PowerPoint design.
The Four-Step Process to Successful Sales Presentations
Here at Eyeful, we’re more than a little obsessed with finding ways to empower presenters and help ensure they deliver value to their audiences (and themselves) at every opportunity. However, having a passion for presentations is one thing – making it easy for presenters to put their best foot forward is another. Too often, the best intentions get forgotten as presentation designers get sidetracked by the allure of slide design and PowerPoint animations (we get it – that’s the fun stuff!).
