This episode goes out around  the time of Bonfire Night in the UK - so I'm sharing 5 things to throw onto the presentation bonfire. 

5 things to throw on the Presentation Bonfire:

1. The all about me start - The first thing you need to do when presenting is engage your audience and that's not easy if all you do at the beginning is talk about yourself
2. Complex and marketing templates slides - Your audience doesn't want complicated slides that are full of content, images, sentences, jargon and neither do you as the presenter 
3. Big notes - you don't need them unless you don't know your subject at all and you haven't thought about any sort of rehearsal
4. Long Q&A answers -  presenters get very excited when someone asks them a question during the Q&A to the extent that they spend far too long answering it – don't do that otherwise you limit the number of other questions you will be asked
5. The all about me proposal follow-up -  there's a good chance that if you're delivering a presentation or pitch you will follow it up with some sort of written proposal – if you do make sure that your proposal doesn't spend the first few pages talking again about you, your company, your great products and services etc... 

This is episode 241 of the Better Presentations More Sales podcast -  the previous 240 episodes are available on your usual podcast app or you can listen and download them on the Better Presentations More Sales podcast page

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• Win that Sales Pitch
• Be that Confident Presenter
• 7 Quick Sales Wins
• Presentation Flying Start

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