Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs

We've moved to a new site - WritingRiffs.com. Appreciate you checking this article out at WritingRiffs.com . We'll be deleting all the content on this site over the next few weeks. Thanks! Steve They Don’t Teach Moving Mountains in School I was inundated with e-mails after digi-penning the article “Animotorize - Help Banish Boring Business Presentations.” M ost agreed that the proliferation of really bad business presentations was an overbearing tax on the human mind and spirit, but more importantly, a massive waste of valuable time. Giving Good Presentations A few of the respondents challenged me. They asked me to give them examples of what I thought were really good presentations. They also asked for some resource materials that could help them learn what actually makes a good presentation and how to deliver one. 10 Great Presentation Examples So … I will. Not only will I provide ten examples of some great presentations (purely subjective) at the end of this article, but al...

We've moved to a new site - WritingRiffs.com Appreciate you checking this article out at WritingRiffs.com . We'll be deleting all the content on this site over the next few weeks. Thanks! Steve I recently received an e-mail from a reader espousing the benefits and yes, even absolute necessity, of using PowerPoint slides during sales presentations (see see below). "Steve! No way you can give a sales presentation without PowerPoint. Business people expect it ... demand it! You must be a marketing bonehead!" Obviously the reader doesn’t know me. Do I look like a marketing bonehead? But, the vehemence and hard-core fanaticism of the reader’s comments (which I do not include here due to my civil nature) made me rethink my position. That’s right. I might quite possibly have been wrong. As hard as that is for me to admit, it’s true. I’m flip-flop...