Design Visual Communications Effectively - It's rare you see a presentation not utilizing PowerPoint (or Keynote).  This is terribly ineffective and is costing you sales - I promise that.  Instead, make an effort to design your visuals effectively.  There are a number of free resources our there, including my free eBook entitled "10 Tips and Techniques for More Effective Presentations."   If you have a presentation that needs and If there's one thing I've learned while engulfed in the world of marketing communications the past few years, it's that you are ALWAYS presenting - especially when it comes to business. 

Earlier this week, I offered you some lessons from the Twitter CEO's unsuccessful SXSW keynote : Let the audience express itself early, don't sit to be sure you project energy, be interactive with the audience when you represent an interactive technology and plan, plan, plan your content. Too many speakers and organizers just let panels happen without thinking through the content, flow, space for adjustments that need to be made in real time, and how to give the audience (in the room and outside the room on the backchannel) the information it needs and wants. Don't forget that there

Fonts are very important to me within presentation design.  What I always say is...   I want to make sure you understand that font is just one component of many that create an effective PowerPoint or Keynote presentation, and your slides are NEVER more important than you, the living/breathing presenter.  Tags: Presentation Desig I take my font choices seriously and a number of them are near and dear to my heart.  "Choosing Choosing your font wisely" is actually my #3 tip in my eBook, Ten Tips and Techniques for More Effective Presentations .