As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a PDF of the new promotional brochure for a product line or service, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation…
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.
5 ways to use a new promotional video from Marketing in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a new promotional video for a product line or service, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation whether it is…
Virtual and Hybrid meeting skills will be needed in the future according to SurveyMonkey poll
SurveyMonkey, the online survey and poll company, recently did a poll that asked people about the future of work. Among the questions they asked was one related to where people preferred to attend different types of meetings. The choices were: in person at workplace, virtually from home, not applicable, and no answer. Not everyone attends…
More ways to engage virtual attendees; Issue #491 June 1, 2021
Last June in the newsletter I shared my article on 8 ways to engage audiences in a virtual presentation. Today I want to add four more ways you can engage attendees in a virtual presentation. Some of these methods are possible because of new features added to Teams and Zoom in the past year. Use…
Half-day virtual session for Graduate Diploma in Business students (May 19, 2022)
Dave will be delivering a half-day session virtually to the Smith School at Queens University Graduate Diploma in Business students who come from across Canada.
New Teams sharing dialog; Issue #490 May 18, 2021
In this newsletter I shared two of the changes that are coming to the sharing dialog in Microsoft Teams meetings. This change is rolling out in spring 2021 and you can see the full article here.
Collaborate with others using PowerPoint on the web in a virtual or hybrid meeting
Collaborating in PowerPoint If you need a group to brainstorm and analyze ideas or organize tasks, if you need a group to collaborate to come up with an agreed upon process flow, the common approach in the past has been to get everyone involved in a room and work together. You need everyone to see…
Zoom survey confirms business meetings are moving towards a hybrid model in the future
Yesterday Zoom released the results of a survey of people from around the world to get a sense of which virtual activities they would like to see continue in the future. In the section for business gatherings, defined primarily as meetings, it is clear that people expect a mix of in-person and virtual meetings in…
Edge browser tips for virtual meetings; Issue #489 May 4, 2021
You can use the Edge browser in Windows to make your next virtual presentation on Zoom, Teams, Webex, or Google Meet more effective. With more and more content being available on the web and the capabilities of browsers improving, using a browser to share content in virtual and hybrid meetings will be an important skill…
PowerPoint Slide Show preview plus Notes view as an alternative to Presenter View (1 monitor/screen, Windows)
Perhaps the single biggest challenge to presenting virtually from home has been how to see your speaking notes and share your slides in PowerPoint if you only have one screen or monitor (likely your laptop screen). This has been a challenge for presenters on all platforms: Zoom, Teams, Webex, Google Meet, and others. I have…