Friday

VISION FOR BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS














Motivate learners to become more qualified for Business Presentations
by following the CTM standards from both Toastmasters International and the University of Calgary's Teaching & Learning Centre.
From Portny's Project Management, "Choose one or two skills you may want to begin using...Unfortunately, experience shows that making numerous changes in your work methods all at once only increases the chances that NONE of them will "stick." Use the new skill until it's second nature to you. Then choose one or two more new skills and repeat the process."
Begin each day with an impromptu "warm up" question, and have each learner to stand up and provide a 60 second verbal answer to the entire group.

IMPORTANT: Encourage learners to create highly interactive "experiential" business presentations, because when more people from the audience participate, there will be an 80% increase in the chances that they will...
  • recall your material
  • be convinced that your business proposal works
  • go ahead with accepting your business proposal

DAY 1
OBJECTIVE - Organize and plan a 2-5 minute business presentation about your strenghs as a business person. How would you "sell" your skills during an interview?
Work with an assigned group during class.

DAY 2
OBJECTIVE - Present your 2-5 minute business presentation to the other learners, and invite questions.
How can your presentation be improved?
Work with two assigned partners during class.
For next day: Find samples for a PREFERRED topic of your choice.

DAY 3
OBJECTIVE - Plan and present a 2-5 minute business presentation about your preferred topic. Integrate samples. Invite another learner to participate.
What needs to be added (e.g. variation in your voice, gestures, and moving around the room) to emphasize your points?
Work with one assigned partner during class.
For next day: Find samples and plan a 5-10 minute presentation for a DIFFERENT PREFERRED topic of your choice.
Start preparing a 10-15 minute presentation to demonstrate an ASSIGNED IDEA, PRODUCT OR SERVICE the last day.

DAY 4
OBJECTIVE - Present your 5-10 minute session with variation in your voice, gestures, and moving around the room, invite multiple learners to participate, and invite questions.
For next day: Find samples and plan a 10-15 minute presentation to demonstrate an ASSIGNED IDEA, PRODUCT OR SERVICE the next day.
Work on your own.

DAY 5
OBJECTIVE - Present and "sell" your 10-15 minute idea, product or service to the audience, including variation in your voice, gestures, moving around the room, invite multiple learners to participate, and invite questions.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Encouragement to keep using your skills in your business, school, and personal life!











thanks from ifranks

Tuesday














TOPIC
Clients, like Mazda, will surprise you in the near future.
They will ask you to "zoom" ahead of schedule and show "what you've got," unexpectedly.

Be ready to create impromptu, participative, demonstrations,
with a next-step for the client to take.















LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After observing a 5-8 minute example of how the instructor would "zoom ahead" into an impromptu participative demonstration...

Use 10 minutes to plan a 5-8 minute demo of how to use a given Business Presentation prop during a tradeshow for your client, Mazda, including the following:
  • PROBLEM
  • PARTICIPATIVE SOLUTION
  • PRESENT THE NEXT STEP for Mazda to use your prop in their tradeshow
You will be selected randomly to present your 5-8 minute demo of how to use a given Business Presentation prop during a tradeshow for your client, Mazda.

The class is a safe environment, and your colleagues will provide the following, immediately after your demo:
  • SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVEMENT
  • MOTIVATING REMINDER OF WHAT YOU DID WELL
















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TOPIC
Clients, like Mazda, will surprise you in the near future.
They will ask you to "zoom" ahead of schedule and show "what you've got," unexpectedly.

Be ready to create impromptu, participative, demonstrations,
with a next-step for the client to take.










thanks from ifranks

Friday

UNHAPPY AT WORK? TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP!

Who would argue with the idea that technology makes life better?

windows cell phone similar to apple iphone and itouch

People are walking around with their favorite tunes in their ears, thanks to devices like Apple ipods, Windows-based smart phones, and shareable Microsoft Zunes - they're in happier moods!

More writing to each other is being done, with email replacing the effort, cost, and delay of traditional mail. Way to go hotmail!

More food is being prepared faster so that we can get on with our lives thanks to high efficiency microwave ovens. Mmm good!

Despite all of this, people to people interactions...meetings with "eyes on eyeballs"...still resonate with people. I feel this can be compared to how our brains remember things...

I remember full stories, exciting events, and rich experiences, not the specific reams of text that I skimmed.

Don't get this confused (like I did when I was younger): I was a big collector of all things technical - this was expensive because technology improves so quickly, time consuming because I got into the intricate details of how things worked, and kept me away from real people!

Technology is a mechanism for making life better, so that we can keep in touch with the music, people, and events that we love, yes?

thanks from ifranks

Monday

Another world in business - your new persona...

from http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Business_Articles

Sunday

Best articles to read for your business...

Top 3 most read articles of 2007

Most popular articles, as voted by avangate.com readers during 2007


This is a list featuring top 3 articles of each section on our site. We are very pleased to see that articles dedicated to Internet Marketing, Website Usability, Software Business and Affiliate Marketing have grown substantially during the past year, proportionally with your interest for this field.
This list was made up according to the traffic received for each section in part. What follows are the top 12 most popular Avangate articles during 2007. We thank you for your interest and we will do our best for 2008 in order to provide you with quality content.

A. Internet Marketing

  1. 68 Online SEO Tools and Resources
    May 30, 2007
    A compiled list of free online Search Engine Optimization tools to check and use for your current web site in order to improve your rankings in the search engines. Feel free to check and use them. [ read full article ]
  2. 50 Press Release Submission Websites
    April 26, 2007
    This is a list with the most important websites where you can submit your press releases. There are 50 free and fee-based websites through which you will improve your awareness online. The list is ordered by Google PageRank and the links lead to "Add/Submit a Press Release" or "Register" page. [ read full article ]
  3. Top 50 Free Blog Directories
    August 27, 2007
    In order to promote your business, gain more exposure and increase targeted traffic, we created a list with the best blog directories where you can submit for free your blog. The first classification criterion is Google PageRank followed by Alexa Ranking. The blog directories are listed with links to "Submit blog" or "Register" page. [ read full article ]

B. Website Usability

  1. Choosing the Right Colors for Your Web Site
    March 21, 2007
    How to choose the right colors for your website in order to keep visitors browsing the pages? Read some tips to keep in mind when defining the color scheme. [ read full article ]
  2. 50 Online Accessibility and Usability Tools
    June 15, 2007
    Usability and accessibility go hand in hand with conversion rates, customer satisfaction, targeted traffic and the list can go on. A list providing 50 useful online tools to check your web site usability and accessibility. [ read full article ]
  3. How to Make your URLs SEO Friendly
    April 27, 2007
    URL rewriting can bring you on the right track in the race for Search Engine Optimization (combined with other techniques that you may use for this purpose). The other strong reason for URL rewriting would be the increase in usability for web users, and in maintainability for webmasters. [ read full article ]

C. Software Business

  1. Cross-sell, Up-sell, Boost Your Software Sales
    February 09, 2007
    How to increase software sales, cross-selling, up selling, selling technique that brings up to the customers' attention products or services complementary to the ones they intended to buy in the first place. [ read full article ]
  2. Getting Ready to Participate at a Software Conference
    October 19, 2007
    Software Business Conferences are a great opportunity of establishing connections and meeting face-to-face clients you already have but have never had the chance to personally talk to. If such an event might have seemed rather difficult to prepare, you weren't far from the truth. Software conferences need as much preparation as any other conference. But all your efforts will be rewarded. [ read full article ]
  3. How to Name a Software Product
    November 08, 2007
    The name of the software product is an introducing element, the best way to make your business appear in the SERPs and the differentiating element from competitors. An article regarding the steps that any software producer has to take in order to choose the most suitable name for his product. [ read full article ]

D. Affiliate Marketing

  1. Make your Download Portal a Successful Affiliate Business
    May 03, 2007
    Most download portals nowadays are built on automatic content feeders, the so-called PAD files. Obviously, importing 20-30k products automatically might be a good way to start a download portal, but then again, most download portals look and work the same, just because of that. Find out how to make your download portal different with a blog. [ read full article ]
  2. Mistakes in Affiliate Programs
    March 28, 2007
    Affiliate marketing does not qualify as a "get-rich-quickly" scheme. Here are the most common 10 mistakes that are usually made when joining affiliate programs and advice about how to avoid them. [ read full article ]
  3. Don't Overpay for Selling your Products. Use Affiliates
    March 16, 2007
    One way to sell online your products is by having affiliates program. Find out more about affiliates program and what the benefits of having your affiliates program are. [ read full article ]

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