Brevity in Business

Business demands brevity and by structuring your communications around these simple suggestions, you'll get to the point stay and stay on point.

When to Purchase an Audience Response System

Determine whether purchasing an audience response system is preferable to renting, based on organizational goals and resources.

Twelve Tips to Make Your Corporate Conference More Successful

Planning and conducting a successful corporate conference is an enormous and important task. Huge sums of money are usually invested. Huge amounts of time, too! Here are twelve quick tips to help make your big event an even bigger success.

7 Speaking Trends -- How to Make a Powerful Presentation Today

While the fundamentals of a great speech stay the same -- develop one strong idea, focus on the audience, be authentic, clear, and committed -- styles change with time. These are the latest trends in speeches and presentations.

Marketing and Sales in A Presentation

When giving a presentation you are engaged in both a marketing and sales activity.

Warming Up for the Stadium Pitch

Imagine standing on the field of a stadium packed with 100,000 people. Every one of them is a potential customer, and in front of you a microphone waits. Your task is to deliver your sales pitch to every single person there. As you reach for the microphone, the murmurs subside. The stadium is silent. The vast field and towering stadium consume you like a hollowed crater. You wonder if your nerves will be heard in the echo of your words.

The Rule of Seven

If you want to engage your audience, follow these simple rules regarding your PowerPoint slides.

Get Rid of Non-Creative Health Presentations! Next Time Try Using a Metaphor or Simile

You can add creative juices to a health presentation by using a metaphor or simile. This technique will go beyond the standard template often used by health professionals talking to lay audiences.

Get a Professional Business Headshot for Under $20

One of the most important things for any executive or business owner is to have a good headshot that they can send to trade magazines and other media. Many people believe that they can either save by having “someone” at the office take one, or that they need to spend tons of money hiring a professional photographer come out to their business.

PowerPoint Sermons – 5 Tips for Preachers

Although PowerPoint has been around for years, there is still a lot of misuse. Here are five tips to strengthen your sermon with PowerPoint.

Why a Portable Table is More than Just an Add On to Your Trade Show Display

Many trade show display exhibitors spend countless hours researching the purchase of their trade show display as well as hours and thousands of dollars in the design of the graphics for that display, there may be a very important part of the puzzle missing if consideration has not been given to adding a portable table of some kind to the marketing environment.

Make the Most of Your Speaking Opportunity

Art, a medium sized business owner, recently invested a small fortune to sponsor a dinner at a high-level industry summit. He'd been networking within the industry for twenty years and felt the time was right to make a bold statement. It was a gamble he was ready to take.

How to Choose the Right Paper - Part 3

Our top ten tips to find the right paper for your projects should be in every designer’s notebook. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, we have discussed planning for paper, determining the personality of your project and considering the finish, color, brightness, weight and content of the paper you may choose. In Part 3, we look at three final features to consider when making your selection.

10 Creativity Tips for Writing Your Speech

To be a truly amazing speaker however, you've got to move beyond mechanics to dynamics. A great speech is not just a bunch of words - it’s an inspiring experience. It's creative, innovative and memorable.