How To Escape the Sleepy Features in Your Business Presentations
Our recent survey brought forward some results that, though not altogether amazing, were very concerning on powerpoint presentations Overall our study highlighted how vital PowerPoint is intoday’s business world, but furthermore showed just how misunderstood and misused it is. In the 90% of people who use PowerPoint 83% used it in face to face presentations. Take that alongside 73% of people presenting to clients and 72% to prospects you begin to perceive just how vital a tool powerpoint presentations is in today’s clients facing world. How much really depends on the presentation? Well reflect about how much effort goes into getting that meeting. Market research, cold calls, courting warm leads and after that finally persuading the clients to agree to a meeting. All of that work culminates this one presentation. This one presentation can justify all the difficult, or it can waste it. If you can see the value that the ultimate piece of the jigsaw has, then you begin to see how vital it is. A staggering 52% of the owners of the content within businesses have had no formal training on powerpoint presentations or on presenting. Coupled with an massive 72% of people who have no proper process for updating their presentation we commence to see how under managed PowerPoint tools is. 95% of businesses use PowerPoint. 30% of these businesses use it everyday.Take into account that 30 million presentations are given each day worldwide you commence to see the size of the problem.But of those 30 million only 48% are given by presenters with any proper training and 80% haven’t been updated for a considerable amount of time quite often over a 1 years.
Simon Morton - www.eyefulpresentations.co.uk
