- Interactive Presentation Slide Ideas: Part Two #2. Monitoring the Mood Sometimes it’s not just enough to take a poll every now and again, but better to have an almost constant view of the ‘mood music’ in the room as information is provided, digested and reacted to. For example, a CEO presenting a company’s roadmap for the year might want to understand […]
- Interactive Presentation Slide Ideas Part One A Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a measure of customer loyalty developed by Bain & Company in 2003, which has since become a globally recognised standard over time and across multiple industries. The NPS asks the customer or audience member “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague?” with response options […]
- Why experiential is the word on every event manager’s lips for 2016 In Eventbrite’s spot-on round-up of the trends their experts predict for 2016, one buzzword was on everyone’s lips. Experiential. To the uninitiated, experiential (specifically experiential marketing) is defined as “a marketing strategy that directly engages consumers and invites and encourages consumers to participate in the evolution of a brand.” Basically – it’s anything where your […]
- 10 of the best PowerPoint alternatives and presentation software tools in 2016 Presentations are a key part of education and business. Explaining an idea to a group, and increasingly gathering their feedback and viewpoints, is a crucial part of communication. Here are 10 presentation software tools to help you in 2016… #1:Haiku Deck Although we definitely fall on the side of PowerPoint fans rather than haters, this […]
- Taking your conference to the next level Last year was the 8th year Investec Asset Management’s marketing team were responsible for organising the Investec Asset Management Global Insights Conference. The conference brings together investment analysis and key note speakers for two days of presentations, discussion and debate. The team knew they had to stay distinctive in order to remain the market leaders, […]
- Pitch on the go: How to present when you’re delayed. Be it plane, train or automobile… It’s the doomsday scenario all presenters fear, your train has been delayed (thanks very much National Rail). You have an important client meeting to get to, that you absolutely can’t miss. They won’t reschedule. You can’t miss the start. What to do? 1. First off, get in touch with the client Do this as soon […]
- What types of questions drive audiences to answer? Simply opening up the floor for an audience Q&A at the end of a meeting or event, is - as we’ve sadly all found out - not necessarily a sure-fire way of guaranteeing your room is filled with riveting debate. You might find yourself with a crowd full of quiet introverts, ask confusing or controversial […]
- Presentation Dos & Don’ts Without any further a -do (see what we did there…), here are our key do’s and don’ts for a successful presentation. Do… Practice, practice, practice. Unfortunately, sometimes mothers do know best. Even if you’ve spent weeks painstakingly crafting every word of your speech, you’ll always find it sounds different when read out aloud. Rehearsing with […]
- Dressing the part: Look like a top presenter I was once told never to wear perfume during job interviews. The reason supposedly being that you never know quite how someone will consciously or unconsciously react to fragrance. While this is clearly a rather extreme bit of advice (!), there is some truth in the fact that before you’ve even opened your mouth people […]
- Glisser and Event Apps When we meet clients and prospective clients the discussion often turns to event apps. What do we think of them? Is Glisser an event app? Does it replace an event app or can you have both? Well the first question of those three could form a whole series of blogs as we discuss the benefits […]