What makes a great presenter?

Written by Graham Jones


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As well as moving to be natural, our discussions show that great presenters are interactive. They ask questions, they involverepparttar audience and essentially they treatrepparttar 103356 presentation as a conversation. This helps boostrepparttar 103357 connection between themselves andrepparttar 103358 audience. That’s because forrepparttar 103359 audiencerepparttar 103360 interactivity appears normal, whereas being spoken at for a great length of time does not.

Another important aspect of making your presentation appear normal is that your audience expects you to deliver your material without any prompts. Conversations do not need notes! Hence your presentation will benefit from appearing normal if you do not use notes or any prompts of any kind – including bullet points on slides. Discussions at our training sessions show time and time again that audiences do not like presenters who use notes, prompt cards, bullet point slides or any other form of memory jogger. Audiences expect presenters to know their stuff. Great presenters never use notes.

An extension ofrepparttar 103361 lack of notes concept is that great presenters talk fromrepparttar 103362 heart. They are passionate about their subject and they are emotional. The dispassionate, business-like presenter is one ofrepparttar 103363 most disliked, according to our discussions. What this means is that you should talk less about your subject and much more about your experiences as this will help boost your passion.

Our training sessions also reveal that audiences want to have fun. They want to see you enjoying yourself and they want to have a laugh. This does not mean you need to tell jokes, but it does mean your audiences expect you to be light. Even for serious subjects it seems that audiences expect some kind of lightness. They want humour and they want you to smile. Straight faced, dry presenters are particularly disliked by audiences.

One final aspect that is revealed byrepparttar 103364 discussions at our training sessions and that is everyone in your audience expectsrepparttar 103365 presenter to motivate them. This does not mean you need to be a motivational speaker. Rather what it means is that your audience is expecting you to tell them what to do. Your audience does not expect a presenter simply to deliver information – they can get that from a book or a web site. Instead great presenters give audiences some action to take.

All of these discussion points suggest that those presenters who treat their presentation as a conversation – who just have a chat withrepparttar 103366 audience – arerepparttar 103367 ones marked out as truly great. People who give presentations by delivering content are seen as boring and uninteresting. This also means their messages are not conveyed, so they may as well not be presenting inrepparttar 103368 first place.

Oh, and one final thing. Our discussions show that audiences simply detestrepparttar 103369 use of computerised slides. They just want to hear from you. Truly great presenters therefore do one other vital thing – they switch offrepparttar 103370 projector!



Graham Jones runs The Presentation Business at http://www.presentationbiz.com which specialises in helping people become great public speakers.




Top 7 Small Business Resources for 2005

Written by Jinger Jarrett


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It'srepparttar 103357 easiest solution I know of to starting a business onrepparttar 103358 Internet, and you don't need to know HTML. You can also use your web site account to build your primary business and generate another source of income.

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Even if you aren't interested in starting any type of coaching business, this site is definitely for you.

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You'll get detailed stats, contact information, site rankings, sites that are linked to a particular web site, and a whole lot more.

No other site will offer you more comprehensive information on what's hot and what's not onrepparttar 103361 Internet. They also offer a toolbar, and it's free to userepparttar 103362 site.

Automate Internet Marketing - http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/ - Internet marketer Patric Chan offers you a free marketing membership with plenty of excellent information. What blew my mind when I saw this is that Patric is giving it away.

If you're new torepparttar 103363 Internet, and new to Internet marketing, start here. Patric knows how to explain marketing in a way that is easy to understand.

Whether you've started a business and want to increase your profits, or you want to start a business, now isrepparttar 103364 time. These seven resources are not to be overlooked.

Jinger Jarrett is a small business coach and Internet Marketer living in Alpharetta, Georgia. She teaches small business owners how to build a fulltime passive residual income and how to do it for only $10 per month. http://www.jingerjarrett.ws


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