Chapter Five. Capturing Your Audience Immediately

Company Examples

  • Intuit Software

  • DigitalThink

  • Mercer Management

  • Cisco Systems

  • Yahoo!

  • Macromedia

  • Argus Insurance

  • TheraTech

  • Microsoft

  • Network Appliance

  • Cyrix

  • ONI Systems

  • Laurel Elementary School

Picture your audience at the start of your presentation. Imagine a group of potential customers who’ve come to hear you give a presentation about your company’s newest product, drifting into a meeting room one by one, sipping their coffee, checking their Blackberrys or I-Phones. Or a banker in a wood-paneled office, sitting behind a tall stack of documents, who must decide whether or not to lend your start-up money for expansion. Or, as with my IPO clients, a roomful of institutional investors in an elegant ...

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