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• The Seven Phases of Effective Presentations: How Not to Bore Your AudienceYad Bhatti
  Preparing for presentations is tough, tedious, and time-consuming, and the cardinal rule once you're in the room is to engage those in your audience—not put them to sleep. These seven ...
  Career Management, PowerPoint, Presentations, Sales
• #SocialSkim: Facebook's CPC Updated, Plus 11 More Stories in This Week's RoundupAngela Natividad
  It's an exciting week when sharks and fireworks combine... and brands hopped on both. Also: Facebook is changing how it measures cost per click (CPC), ways to market better on ...
  Advertising, Content, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Theory, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Presentations, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter, YouTube
• Communicate Like a Founding Father: Three Simple Lessons From the Declaration of IndependenceBrian Burkhart
  Believe it or not, the Declaration of Independence follows a simple formula dating back thousands of years to one of the original thought leaders about the art of persuasion: Aristotle.
  Content, Customer Communications, Presentations, Sales, Web Content, Writing
• Eight Powerful SlideShare Features You May Not Be Using [Infographic]Barry Feldman
  There are a ton of reasons that top brands—and small companies—are active on SlideShare: It provides an enormous opportunity for any content marketer.
  Content, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, LinkedIn, PowerPoint, Presentations, SlideShare, Videos, Web Analytics
• Nine Steps for Public Speaking Like a Pro [Infographic]Verónica Jarski
  Worried about your public speaking? This infographic offers tips and tricks for shaking off the fear and crafting a successful public speaking engagement.
  Career Management, Presentations, Public Speaking
• 10 Do's and Don'ts of Using Data and Research in PresentationsJosh Knauer
  How well data and research are integrated into a presentation or pitch can make or break it. But not every marketer is a natural-born data geek. How can you work ...
  Career Management, Content, Data, PowerPoint, Presentations, Research, Sales
• The Only 10 Slides You Need in a Pitch [Infographic]Verónica Jarski
  Putting together slides for your pitch? You really need only 10. Guy Kawasaki offers tips for what each should include.
  Career Management, Creativity, Marketing Strategy, Presentations
• Elements of a Successful Creative Pitch [Infographic]Verónica Jarski
  You've one shot to dazzle your audience with your idea, service, or product. Here are some tips to make sure you rock the presentation.
  Career Management, Content, Creativity, Marketing Tips, Presentations
• How to Create an Event That Drives ROICassie Brown
  Events—if done properly—can be a successful technique for marketing and engagement. Here are five tactics you can use to ensure your attendees thoroughly enjoy your events and, in turn, improve ...
  Conferences, Networking, Presentations, Sales
• A Marketer's View: An 11-Step Plan for Launching Your StartupMelissa Cohen
  Launch day is the end of a long road and the beginning of another. To make sure your startup can thrive during the journey, you'll need to walk through these ...
  Management, Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Positioning, Presentations, Project Management, Public Relations, Social Media
• Becoming a 'Visible Expert': Seven Traits Shared by Industry All StarsLee W. Frederiksen
  Firms with well-known industry experts and thought leaders are more likely to attract leads, command premium fees, and possess strong, recognized brands. Those "Visible Experts" have these seven traits in ...
  Brand Positioning, Career Management, Content, Personal Branding, Presentations, Sales, Thought Leadership, Writing
• Sell vs. Tell: Five Ways to Engage Your Audience During a PresentationAlexAnndra Ontra
  PowerPoint's best attributes often turn it into to a sales or marketing presentation's worst enemy and often resulting in a mind-numbing drill of slide-after-slide-after-slide. So how can you build/host an ...
  Content, Engagement, Presentations, Sales, Videos
• Add These Five Word 'Magnets' to Your Marketing and Sales VocabularyBob Circosta
  Words. They can be powerful, passionate, and—if used correctly in marketing and sales communications and presentations—extremely profitable.
  B2C, Content, Copywriting, Customer Communications, Customer Satisfaction, Direct Marketing, Email, Presentations, Sales, Television, TV, Writing
• Content Marketing: The Leftover TrickTim Matthews
  It struck me this Thanksgiving that marketers could take a lesson from turkey gumbo—what I call the "leftover trick" for content marketing. Here are five simple ideas to get you ...
  Content, Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Inbound Marketing, Presentations, SlideShare, Social Media, Web Content, White Papers, Writing
• How Presentations Could Save Your Social Media StrategyScott Schwertly
  Social media posts with visuals outperform text-only posts, and visual aids make presentations much more persuasive. So harness this power of images in social media by using presentations you've already ...
  Content, Content Marketing, Marketing Tips, Online Marketing, Presentations, Social Media, Web Content
• Presentations Gone Wrong: Five Rules for Avoiding a Really Bad PresentationPooja Lohana
  We've all heard presenters who apparently forgot that a tool such as PowerPoint is just a medium for re-enforcing what they have to say. Instead, text-laden slides take center stage—a ...
  Content, Customer Communications, PowerPoint, Presentations, Public Speaking, Sales
• #SocialSkim: Acquisitions by Twitter and Pinterest, Instagram's Bolt vs. Snapchat, Life After Like, More!Angela Natividad
  The tectonic plates of social are moving! Get the latest on acquisitions—including Twitter's Madbits buy and Pinterest's Icebergs buy—plus tips on how to hook users in stories, where Instagram is ...
  Advertising, Branding, Content, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Theory, Humor, Instagram, Marketing Strategy, Mobile Marketing, Pinterest, Presentations, Social Media, Social Networking, SocialSkim, Twitter, Vine
• Eight Ways to Rock Your Media MarketingLisa Calhoun
  Accessibility to media, and how technology has changed what that looks like, is something many marketing organizations are not taking into account. Here are ways to take advantage of the ...
  Blogging, Content Marketing, New Media, Presentations, Public Relations, Social Media, Thought Leadership
• Three Ways to Visually Present Information (Without Spending a Fortune)Pooja Lohana
  Why can we watch three movies in a day but we're barely able to manage three books in a week—or a month? Humans are wired for visualization. We can more ...
  Content, Content Marketing, Customer Behavior, Customer Communications, Data, Presentations, Videos
• Have a Complex Product to Pitch? Focus on a Customer StoryMichael Harris
  If you want customers to understand your complex product but can't simplify your presentation, you need a way to bypass the conscious mind's limited ability to absorb new material.
  Content, Content Marketing, Customer Engagement, Customer Insight, Presentations, Product Management, Product Marketing