Clear Content

Show me the Money!

You’ve spent weeks, maybe months, collecting and piecing together the perfect content to deliver your presentation. But, chances are, there is one critically important slide—the one that shows the final result, the secret sauce, the whole shebang.

Also known as the money slide, it’s the one that’s worth the price of admission. Is yours giving them a bang for their buck?

• How long does it take to get to your money slide? Create enough suspense to intrigue them without burying the lede too much.

• Have you given them enough time to absorb it? Let them savor the meaty bits before changing directions.

• Does everything else add to or distract from this lead message? It’s all about the Benjamins, baby. Or, in this case, the money slide. Make sure your content is purposely supporting the star of your show.

Contact me for presentation tips for everything from designing your deck to delivering your speech like a Rockstar.

Virtual Presentations = Less Content

1/2 as much is twice as good

You’ve got a lot to say, but how much can your audience hear?

Hint: It’s not as much as you think.

As an expert preparing your presentation you do your research, write your talk track, practice, practice, practice, shower, and hit the stage or screen.

 Hold on…

If you present what you’ve got, you might be wasting your brilliance and your breath.

Audiences today are busy and their brains are busy trying to process our current health and society challenges.  Audiences need you to make your presentation easier to absorb.

 Cut your content in half.  

 How?  Review your presentation and uncover your one big idea.  Write that in 10 words.

Now look at the rest of the deck and ask yourself 2 questions.

Do those slides amplify your idea or dilute it? 

Are you sharing that information for you or for them?

 Get into your audiences’ shoes (or slippers), say half as much and it will be twice as good.

 If you’d like help reviewing your content so that you can present what matters, email me and we’ll chat.

Nuff said, Ann