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What is the most critical point in your sales cycle? This is a question that perplexes sales organizations daily. In most cases, the most critical point is that point where a customer flips from being an interested bystander to a willing customer. But how do you know when this will happen?

If you just sit back and wait, you will never know when it happens. But if you proactively create the moment, you can be prepared to monitor and record it. With interactive presentations this seemingly impossible task becomes routine. By creating a scenario in your presentation where you are controlling what the audience is seeing and interacting with, you are in a position to capture their input at a moment when their emotions are highest and they are most likely to move towards a purchase decision.

Let’s say, for example, that you are promoting a new sculptor in your art gallery. The typical approach is to present a slide show of works by that artist and the sometime later, ask the audience what they thought. But what if you provided a 3-D rotating sculpture? The audience rotates the 3-D image to an angle they find most pleasing. On that same screen they provide input through a slider conveying their impression.

You are gathering information when they are interactively engaged and emotionally involved with your product.  This is what we call “Interactivity at Point of Business.”

Try it with your product or service. PresenterNet allows you to place interactive elements on any slide in your presentation providing the ultimate in control over emotion-driven information gathering.

I’d love to hear your comments on how you use Interactivity at Point of Business.

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When presenting online, it is much more difficult to hold a user’s attention than when presenting live. this problem is exacerbated when you throw a list of bullet points up and start addressing them one at a tine. Many presenters use clever tricks such as animation or revealing one bullet at a time, but believe you me, unless you have the most interested audience in the world, they will soon be off checking their email or performing other tasks while you speak.

But people still insist on using bullet points to deliver their message. Why is this? One reason is that it is easy. Many people organize thoughts in their heads like bullet points. Bullets represent a simple, logical flow of information. But you’re not trying to entertain or inform anyone in your head. I recemmend that all presenters get and memorize Cliff Atkinson’s fantastic book, ‘Beyond Bullet Points.’ The main idea presented in the book is that each slide in a presentation should be a single thought represented by a single image or diagram to support the thought. People will remember more if you deliver just one thought at a time, so why make it difficult for them?

I recommend that all PresenterNet users get a copy of Cliff’s book and join his online forums to discuss techniques. You’ll see your presentation performance improve drastically.

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