Choosing a partner for your presentations or eLearning can be a minefield, and knowing where to start looking for objective advice can be really tricky. BrightCarbon has pulled together some industry insights for some honest, straight-forward thinking to help you when you’re looking for that partner who will be the best fit for your business.
Find out how to choose a presentation agency that’s right for your business needs. Discover the difference between getting a specialist presentation agency or a marketing agency to help you with your slides. And read up on what’s currently happening in the industry and how it affects you.
Searching online, I find four companies describing themselves as the UK’s leading presentation design agency. Not ‘one of the leading’, but the leading. Four. Which is of course a nonsense. So, who’s lying?
Not all companies have an in-house presentation expert, but they should! Sherri Hodge is an in-house presentation expert at Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, LLC, a law firm in the US. This interview explores how she developed PowerPoint expertise over the course of an interesting career, and how she navigates the varied responsibilities of developing presentations for a law firm.
Presentation slides give you a virtual stage on which graphics and text can mingle to bring data to life and make complicated information digestible. The Presentation Center at National Journal capitalizes on presentations as a medium to deliver information about Washington DC’s most topical issues. As a Washingtonian myself, I had the opportunity to meet with Alistair Taylor, Director of Strategic Content & Presentations, to learn more about this unique organization.
More and more companies are outsourcing tasks they don’t have internal expertise for, but should presentations be on that list? We look at the pros and cons of outsourcing to PowerPoint experts versus using your in-house design agency to create presentations.
As a founding member of the Presentation Guild, Sandra Johnson has trailblazed her way through the presentation industry. I recently had the opportunity to chat with her all about how she’s built a career from being a PowerPoint MVP, how she co-founded the Guild, and what she would like to see in the world of presentations.
Searching online, I find four companies describing themselves as the UK’s leading presentation design agency. Not ‘one of the leading’, but the leading. Four. Which is of course a nonsense. So, who’s lying?
Presentation Zen was published ten years ago. Al Gore won his Oscar for a film based on a presentation in 2006. Amazon sell more than 38,000 books with ‘presentation’ in the title, and more than 7,500 with ‘PowerPoint’. Which all sort or raises the question Why are so many presentations still crap? All those books, decks, all that advice – Is it even making a difference?
What's the difference between a presentation and a speech? Many people use the words interchangeably, but there are two main areas of difference. Speeches shouldn't be held up as examples of what those giving presentations should emulate.
Too many self-styled experts don't clearly recognise that there are many different types of presentations. What works in the ballroom may not work in the meeting room.
Sales people fail at new business sales, Weinberg contends, because they are too passive, lacking in focus, unwilling to call prospects, focus on existing accounts too much, and because they lack the core sales skills. With the right approach, right support, and right targets, many (but not all) sales people could generate new business.
We decided to publish our pricing online. For a B2B company, selling to other B2B companies, that's a fairly controversial thing to do. But we're giving it a try, and if it doesn't work out, we'll try to stuff the genie back in the bottle. None of our competitors in the presentation market seem to publish their pricing publically. So, are we stupid?
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