{"id":2229,"date":"2016-04-26T00:55:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2016-04-26T00:55:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:55:50","slug":"presentations-second-to-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/presentations-second-to-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations: Second to None"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to a sales presentation, in all honesty, can be<strong> boring<\/strong>. There isn&#8217;t enough caffeine in the world to make most presentations even tolerable. No one, and\u00a0I mean NO ONE, wants to sit through an hour-long presentation on ANYTHING. Before you think about your next presentation, you\u2019ve got to clear your mind, and find your inner strength to plan it. Here we go:<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_79SognVSu7A\/TOFa9K2ptVI\/AAAAAAAACHs\/-t3BFCMVIYY\/s1600\/TagCloud_AAP.png\" width=\"374\" height=\"239\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 374px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 374\/239;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a slide show presentation, the best thing to do with your slides is to<strong> ditch them entirely<\/strong>. Try to work with concepts that are simple and self-contained enough that you can communicate what your audience needs to know by briefly talking about the subject with as minimal words on slides as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add some creativity\/love<\/strong> to your presentation. No one ever perked up when another black and white slide came up, but if you\u2019re working with electric orange and lime green, they just might notice. Color lightens the mood.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <strong>throw some humor in there<\/strong>! Don\u2019t be afraid to be funny in the content of the slides. For example, if you were trying to illustrate the idea that your company shouldn\u2019t let its reach exceed its grasp, you might find an image of a little boy trying to open his mouth wide enough to eat an entire ice cream cone at once. In my expert, first-semester ,college freshman opinion, a\u00a0relatable self-depreciating sense of humor can go a LONG WAY.<\/p>\n<p>Finally,\u00a0<strong>present\u00a0activities to loosen everyone up<\/strong>, engage them, and get them interacting with each other. This can relieve some tension and allow them to focus on your sales presentation more. Think of creative ice breakers or activities to get the blood flowing!<\/p>\n<p>Next time you have a sales presentation, remember these tips and maybe, just maybe, your audience won&#8217;t need that extra coffee to stay awake.<\/p>\n<p>~ Zach B.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to a sales presentation, in all honesty, can be boring. There isn&#8217;t enough caffeine in the world to make most presentations even tolerable. No one, and\u00a0I mean NO ONE, wants to sit through an hour-long presentation on ANYTHING. Before you think about your next presentation, you\u2019ve got to clear your mind, and find your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}