Warning – The Following Presentation Contains Flashing Images
You have a sneaking suspicion that your presentation is a little, um, dull.You’ve hacked away at the text.You’ve fiddled with the images.It’s time to break out the ‘interesting animations’. From migraine-inducing transitions to mind-boggling motion paths, your...
The (Sales) Power Of Toolkit Presentations
Are you blowing your sales chances on the first date..?Picture the scene…After much time wooing a wonderful potential partner, they agree to a first date. You sit down, pour the wine and then you start talking…and talking…and talking. You throw everything you can at...
Eyeful Stories: The FM Company
Customer Sector: Facilities Management Presentation Type: Sales Presentation Timescale: 6 weeks from initial engagement to roll-out The Background: Mergers and acquisitions bring complexity and risk. This client came to us following a large acquisition of a...
Hitting The Snooze Button
You can see your audience fighting sleep. Their eyelids heavy, heads nodding (but not in a good way) and yawns being muffled.You begin to suspect that your presentation is the root cause of this mass-snoozefest. Is the message not on point? Is the content too dry? Are...
The Importance Of Putting Your Best Foot Forward
You wouldn’t turn up to an important meeting, interview, or pitch wearing an old pair of jeans and a scruffy T-shirt. You may have heard it many times before, but the ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression’ cliché stands up to scrutiny, especially...
Your Audience Don’t Deserve You
You’ve sweated long and hard over your presentation. You’ve convinced yourself that the hours of preparation, rehearsal and anxiety attacks were going to be worth it. Visions of a standing ovation kept you going.And then the reality of your audience kicks in. They’re...
Hard Lessons Learned On The Hidden Costs Of Presentation Developments
Many years ago, in a pre-Eyeful life, I was given the fantastic opportunity to head up a cracking team of developers, salespeople and marketeers to launch a ground-breaking product into Europe on behalf of our US parents.This was huge. The software in question was...
Eyeful Stories: The Coffee Company
Customer Sector: Food & Beverage Presentation Type: Pitch Presentation Timescale: 2 weeks from initial engagement to pitch presentation The Background: Launching into a new marketplace is always a challenge. That challenge is even bigger when you are looking to...
Drowning Your Audience In Data
You didn’t have time to prepare properly for your presentation so you’ve decided to go down the ‘throw enough information at them and some of it will stick’ route.Your poor audience are now drowning in data. Much of it irrelevant, almost all of it disconnected. As a...
Ignoring My Dad’s Advice, Time & Time Again…
I remember sharing my first (and, admittedly, very flaky) business plan with my father. At the time, he held a senior role within a large investment bank and enjoyed all the trappings that come with such a role – a very capable PA, around the clock marketing support...
Sales Noise: Are You Part Of The Problem?
You have to feel a little sorry for today’s B2B buyer. They are relentlessly bombarded with unprecedented levels of ‘sales noise’ from every angle. Every day they face a plethora of social media platforms and carefully targeted online engagements ready to leap from...
Five Steps To Ensure Your Presentation ‘Moment Of Truth’ Stands Up
It really doesn’t matter where, what or to whom you’re presenting, there’s no getting away from the fact that presentations are a pretty big deal. Presentations are a unique opportunity to share your ideas, vision and knowledge to an audience who, at least to start...
The Moment PowerPoint Prowess Became Funny…
"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail"PowerPoint is ubiquitous.Of course, it’s the tool of choice for presenters (not always a good thing) but it’s managed to work its way into the fabric of everyday life. From people using PowerPoint as desktop...
How The Presentation Paradox Cost One Company $14 Billion
I have often joked that should our marketing team ever run short of leads, the best course of action would be to head directly to the nearest Starbucks or Costa at around 9ish on any work day. The reason? In every coffee shop in every major city in the UK, there are...
How Close To Perfect Does Practice Get You?
After hours, maybe even weeks or months, of preparation developing the perfect presentation, you now have your finished slides ready to be delivered to your awaiting audience. The message is powerful, the design is perfect and the content is sharp.Now, the question...
Choosing The Right Story For Your Audience
The world today is full of distractions. Technology, work practices and the general hubbub of life means that attracting and engaging an audience has never been so difficult. However, there is a way to break through the white noise of modern life. We, as humans, love...
The Unconsciously Incompetent Presenter – The Case For Ongoing Presenter Training
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himselfThere are legions of zombies presenting at business events and meetings across the world right now. These zombies tend to be pretty benign, but chances are that at some point this week, your...
Top 3 TED Presentations That Demonstrate The Power Of Storytelling
Finding that hook for your next story can be challenging, but this time and effort is a vital step on the journey to presentation success. The net result is a presentation story that gets to the heart of the message you want your audience to remember and ultimately...
Simply Having A WondEyeful Christmas Time
2018 has been quite a year here at Eyeful... We’ve grown in all the right places over the last 12 months. We've welcomed wonderful new customers, pushed the envelope on numerous projects, launched exciting new initiatives (Eyeful Insights & Eyeful...
Why Presentation Training Needs To Be More Than Simply Managing Nerves And A Clicker
The challenges facing today's presenters are numerous. From new technology, grappling with different interfaces and options for engaging audiences, through to managing those audiences themselves, what with there being an increase in the multi-generational aspects of...
