Presentation design can make a huge difference to the success of your presentation.

I’m delighted therefore that on this episode I talk about how to transform your presentation design with freelance presentation designer Tim Jacques

Tim shares some great insights into how he goes about designing a presentation for his clients based on who they are and the brand message they want to get across as well as who the audience is and how they want to receive the presentation.

We also talk about the difference between presentation design for an in-person audience and presentation design for a virtual audience

There is no doubt that if you transform your presentation design there is every chance that you will get better results from your presentation.

Tim's two top tips that you can implement straightaway to help transform your presentation design are:

Simplify your presentation focusing on just one idea per slide and on that slide avoiding text overload 

Secondly have a hierarchical structure to each slide to ensure you keep the attention of your audience on what you want them to be focusing on

You can find Tim at https://jqscreates.com

And also on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyjacques/

If you think you might need some help with your next key presentation book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your presentation and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your presentation and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

I'll help ensure you don't waste the golden opportunity that your next key presentation is.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click on these links key presentation or sales pitch 

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

You can also contact me by using the 'Send us a text' link at the bottom of these notes. Be aware that I can't directly reply to those messages so please include a contact method for you if you want a reply. 

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Here are three opportunities in 2025 where you can deliver better presentations and as a result potentially create more sales.

Firstly internal meetings whether that be to colleagues or management team 

Secondly to clients where the key to a better presentation is to focus on the client from the get go not yourself and in both cases to use less words on your slides.

The third opportunity for a better presentation in 2025 is when you go out networking and you deliver your elevator pitch so instead of starting with the usual stuff about yourself, identify a problem that your audience can relate to and share how you can help solve it

All these opportunities potentially lead to more sales

If you think you might need some help with your next key presentation book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your presentation and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your presentation and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

I'll help ensure you don't waste the golden opportunity that your next key presentation is.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click on these links key presentation or sales pitch 

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

You can also contact me by using the 'Send us a text' link at the top of these notes. Be aware that I can't directly reply to those messages so please include a contact method for you if you want a reply. 

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I can help you transform your business presentations, create and convert sales opportunities and win more sales pitches. Click on the links below to find out more and book a free 15-20 minute Zoom call with to discuss what you might need help with.

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6 presenting tips for 2025 to help you transform your business presentations. Each tip from guests who have appeared on the show in 2024.

The 6 presenting tips for 2025 can easily be implemented and applied to most business to business sales situations.

The 6 presenting tips for 2025 and the guests who shared them are:

Jacqueline Farrington - be aware of creating presentation presence before you start to speak and use a rhetorical question, a metaphor or a bold statement to help you generate an engaging start.

Peter George - remember that your presentation is about the audience not about you and it's not you that's in the spotlight it is them. You are not speaking to inform you are speaking to transform and remember how important it is to rehearse, rehearse and rehearse.

Barbara Specter – don't show up and throw up! In other words if you are delivering a presentation think about how you can ask compelling questions and be curious and if you're doing a keynote at an event then before you present meet and greet some of the audience and use a couple of things from them when you start 

Emily Schneider – PowerPoint design – every slide needs to have a particular intention – how does that slide impact your audience? And make sure that you are utilising visuals to their best and that your slides are consistent and simple

Conor Cunneen – humour is a great part of any presentation but don't try to be deliberately funny and unless you are very good don't tell jokes – allow the humour to develop naturally

Neil Gordon - transform your elevator pitch - here's a line that you could use to start your elevator pitch ‘ You know how hard it is… ‘ – use something like that and you will stand out from everybody else who will be saying things like my name is, I'm from and this is what we do

If you think you might need some help with your next key presentation book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your presentation and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your presentation and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

I'll help ensure you don't waste the golden opportunity that your next key presentation is.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click on these links key presentation or sales pitch 

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations

Send us a text

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6 sales tips for 2025 to help you transform your business sales. Each tip from guests who have appeared on the show in 2024.

The six sales tips for 2025 can easily be implemented and applied to most business to business sales situations.

My message when I'm working with clients is to don’t think like a sales person but think that you are there to help people buy the right things at the right time and to make it easy for them to buy 

The six sales tips for 2025 and the guests who shared them are:

Will Barron – simplify your sales process – focus on what the buyer needs to make a decision and help them take that next step

Richard Harris - ask great questions and let the buyer do the majority of the talking,

Jonathan Gardner - avoid focusing on talking about your capabilities and your product service features instead focus on educating the buyers 

Nancy Zare - understand your buyers personality traits get a feel for them via their websites their social media, etc… and be an active listener

Donald Kelly - use Linked In video as a direct messaging tool to potential and existing buyers instead of sending emails and check that your banner and professional headline are up-to-date.

David Connors – turn your network into sales. You might be surprised when you look just how many people you know and have connections with through various networks not just business ones - map out those relationships and use them to your advantage

If you think you might need some help with your next key sales pitch book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your sales pitch and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your pitch and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

I'll help ensure you don't waste the golden opportunity that your next key sales pitch is.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click on these links key presentation or sales pitch 

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

You can also contact me by using the 'Send us a text' link at the top of these notes. Be aware that I can't directly reply to those messages so please include a contact method for you if you want a reply. 

Send us a text

I can help you transform your business presentations, create and convert sales opportunities and win more sales pitches. Click on the links below to find out more and book a free 15-20 minute Zoom call with to discuss what you might need help with.

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Neil Gordon is a persuasion expert who focuses on helping entrepreneurs, speakers and other thought leaders deliver compelling messages.

This includes the elevator pitch. 

Usually found in action when people go to networking events or indeed any situation where they get a brief amount of time to explain themselves the elevator pitch can be very samey when lots of people are taking it in turns. 

Which is why this episode will help you transform your elevator pitch.

The usual question that prompts the elevator pitch is 'what do you do?'  Neil though suggests that you should think that the question you've actually been asked is 'what can you do for me?'

People often when delivering their elevator pitch introduce themselves, the name of the company and then they describe the product or service they offer in the context of a customer or indeed an industry 

Neil offers a much better four step alternative:

Step One - describe a problem your audience can relate to 'You know how hard it is.....' - Neil calls this framing the problem

Step Two - explain the common flawed solutions to the problem 'and often people think the best way to solve this is to....'

Step Three - introducing what Neil call’s the ‘Silver Bullet’ solution - which includes a single powerful sentence that sums up the problem and your solution. Neil shares several examples of this during the recording.

Step Four - explain what you do and how you can help - 'I help....so that they .......'

You can find Neil at neilcanhelp.com and on his website you can access tons of free resources to help you transform your elevator pitch and become much more persuasive. 

I think Neil’s ideas will enable you to transform your elevator pitch so give them a go and stand out from everyone else next time you go networking! 

If you think you might need some help with your next key sales pitch book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your sales pitch and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your pitch and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click on these links key presentation or sales pitch 

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentati

Send us a text

I can help you transform your business presentations, create and convert sales opportunities and win more sales pitches. Click on the links below to find out more and book a free 15-20 minute Zoom call with to discuss what you might need help with.

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Delivering Confident and Impactful Presentations - something all presenters aspire to do. So how can you end up delivering confident and impactful presentations? 
Here's how: 

• Confidence Boosters:
• Knowledge, Clothes and Notes - You are likely to be presenting on a subject you know well. You may even be an expert. Your audience are there for you. They want to learn from and he enthused by you. Look good, feel good. Choose clothes which you feel good in. Postcard size prompt cards give you something to hold. One or two words per slide can act as your prompt / safety net if you need it. Write big enough so you see the prompt at a glance. 
• Preparation and Practice - Do thorough preparation - focus on what you know and what your audience are expecting. Don’t go overboard on detail. Minimise slides and what’s on them. Take practice seriously. Time it. Speak out-loud standing up if that is how you will be delivering your presentation. 
• Distraction - The most nervous time is often the 10-15 minutes before you start. Use that time to meet & greet your audience, plan your evening, your next holiday - anything to take your mind off thinking about your presentation. 

• Creating Impact:
• Start with Audience not you - Your audience want to be engaged, educated, enthused, even entertained by you. So from the get go talk about them, not about you. They are not interested in you, only how what you are sharing with them will benefit them. So no drum banging, awards, client logos or team pics at the start! 
• Maximum of 3 Messages - Regardless of how long your presentation is focus on delivering for your audience no more than three key messages. They can remember and act upon three but they can’t remember six or eight or 27. 
• Use your Voice - Your voice is a key tool in your presentation armoury. Use it to maintain audience engagement, emphasise a key point, pick up or slow down the pace, pause for effect etc…Your voice can give you presence and boost your energy. Practice out-loud. Using your voice will stand you out. 

If you think you might need some help with your next key presentation book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your presentation and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your pitch and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

I'll help ensure you don't waste the golden opportunity that your next key presentation is.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click o

Send us a text

I can help you transform your business presentations, create and convert sales opportunities and win more sales pitches. Click on the links below to find out more and book a free 15-20 minute Zoom call with to discuss what you might need help with.

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What difference would it make if you were to Win more Sales Pitches? 

More revenues? Higher profile? More confidence? 

In this episode of the Better Presentations More Sales podcast I’m sharing with you 5 ways to win more sales pitches for your business whether you a one person start up or an established SME or a large corporate. 

The Sales Pitch could be to an existing client, a potential new client, to win  a tender, win investment or get board / management approval.

Whichever one it is Sales Pitches are golden opportunities so these 5 ways to win more sales pitches will help ensure you don’t waste that golden opportunity

Within those 5 ways to Win more Sales Pitches we look at: 

• Understanding your audience and their expectations
• The outcome you want to achieve 
• Making it easy to say yes
• Being a ruthless editor
• Running the pitch and keeping your audience informed
• Managing and making the most of the Q&A 
• Clarifying and agreeing the next steps

If you think you might need some help with your next key sales pitch book a free 15 minute Zoom call with me and we can discuss your sales pitch and if I can help you.

If I can then the next step would be a 40-50 minute Zoom call where we will go through your pitch and I will be your audience, your challenger and your coach.

I'll help ensure you don't waste the golden opportunity that your next key sales pitch is.

To find more about my full range of sales pitch and business presentation training and coaching offers please click on these links key presentation or sales pitch 

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

You can also contact me by using the 'Send us a text' link at the top of these notes. Be aware that I can't directly reply to those messages so please include a contact method for you if you want a reply. 

Send us a text

I can help you transform your business presentations, create and convert sales opportunities and win more sales pitches. Click on the links below to find out more and book a free 15-20 minute Zoom call with to discuss what you might need help with.

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No More Boring Presentations with Ivan Wanis Ruiz

Ivan is a communication maverick and international speaker, renowned for his book End Boring: A Tactical Approach to Public Speaking and Communication. 

With over 15 years of experience, Ivan founded Public Speaking Lab to revolutionise communication skills training. Drawing from neuroscience, stand-up comedy, and police interrogation techniques, he has trained over half a million people worldwide.

We talk about body language, eye contact, the belly button rule, slides all with an end goal of helping ensure you don’t deliver a boring presentation 

We talked about the three traps that presenters fall into firstly formality, secondly speaking in the third person and thirdly too many details.

Ivan’s Top tip number one is practice where people can see you which could be a cafeteria or a park bench or even before you go live and when people are arriving at the conference or event venue

Top tip number two is if you're delivering a technical presentation with quite a bit of detail every third or fourth slide simply put in a picture with no words on the slide and introduce it either as a precursor to what you have just been talking about or as an introduction to the information you're going to about to share on the following few minutes 

Here’s how to find Ivan:

Website: publicspeakinglab.com

Instagram: @publicspeakinglab

LinkedIn: iwanisruiz

Youtube: @publicspeakinglab

X: @speaking_lab

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If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

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This episode goes out on November 5th.

Presidential election day in the US

Bonfire night in the UK

In the UK we say Remember, Remember the 5th of November.

The 5th of November in question was the one in 1605. A bunch of people plotted to blow up King James 1 who was attending the House of Lords as part of the State Opening of Parliament. The plot was discovered just in time following a tip off. 

One of the gang was Guido Fawkes. Guy Fawkes has become the name most associated with the plot. Effigies of him are burnt on bonfires and fireworks lit on November 5th. 

So on the theme of Remember, Remember here are 10 things you need to remember when presenting:

1. Remember your presentation is about your audience not you
2. Remember to arrive early when presenting in person or virtually
3. Remember to check in advance the equipment such as screen size that will be available to you 
4. Remember to take practise seriously
5. Remember if you forget something during the presentation only you will know
6. Remember your audience are keen to learn from you - you know your stuff that’s why you’ve been asked to present
7. Remember to be yourself 
8. Remember to have a glass of water handy should you need it
9. Remember to empty your pockets and get rid of lanyards etc…
10. Remember to enjoy presenting! 

If would like my help with your key presentation or sales pitch you can find me at: https://www.trevorjlee.com

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

Don’t forget I've got one more free autumn webinars coming up - 20 fast paced minutes - all you need to do is register by clicking on the title of the webinar:

Thurs. Nov 7th: 5 Ways to Win More Sales Pitches
 
They all start at 9:30am UK time 

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Delivering business presentations online has grown significantly in the last few years but for a lot of people they still don't quite have the core skills which is why this episode is all about how to deliver virtual presentations.

It includes communication with event organises, pre-preparation information required, getting used to the kit that you have available, practising, interacting with your audience, slide transitions, Q&A management.

In essence a complete guide to get in the basics of how to deliver virtual presentations.

If would like my help with your key presentation or sales pitch you can find me at: https://www.trevorjlee.com

If you are interested in trialling for free my online course ‘Transform your Business Presentations’ then drop me an email to [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

Don’t forget my final free autumn webinar is coming up - 20 fast paced minutes - all you need to do is register by clicking on the title of the webinar:

Thurs. Nov 7th: 5 Ways to Win More Sales Pitches
 
They all start at 9:30am UK time 

Send us a text

I can help you transform your business presentations, create and convert sales opportunities and win more sales pitches. Click on the links below to find out more and book a free 15-20 minute Zoom call with to discuss what you might need help with.

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My latest book: 7 Steps to Successful Presentations