As a marketing professional it never ceases to amaze me how many pitiful presentations I’ve been forced to sit through. During webinars, in business meetings, or conferences where I (insert my employer) paid a large sums of money for me to attend. Folks using default PowerPoint templates, terrible clip art they purchased at Best Buy, [...]

Solid presentation skills are learned over time. That means if you want to dazzle your clients and prospects with your slide show or have them cheering after your speech you need to practice. Unfortunately since formal presentations for many business executives are an infrequent occurrence, you can’t become a master overnight. Below are a few [...]

Late last week Cisco agreed to acquire webinar firm WebEx for $3.2 billion in cash (press release). WebEx in 2006 generated nearly $50 million in profit on about $380 million in revenue. They have $300 million or so in cash on hand, so the net deal value is $2.9 billion. Under the terms of the [...]

Advances in technology, computing and processing power, and an almost universal access to broadband connections have made interactive meetings conducted over the Internet a viable and cost effective solution. Although Web Meetings offer the same interactivity as face-to-face meetings, there are differences you should be aware of. Click the link below for nine tips to [...]

Finding out how to identify your needs and what to look for in a Webinar vendor can be a daunting task. When beginning your search for a Web conferencing or Web meeting solution, it is important to review a number of vendors, visit their Web sites, review live demos, seek client testimonials and, most important, [...]

New Web Meeting technology leverage the strength of the telephone and connects it with the Internet’s capacity to deliver real-time visual communications at low cost. Web Meetings enable presenters to conduct virtual seminars for anyone to participate as long as they have a PC with an Internet connection. This technology not only makes traditional seminars [...]

In order to create effective PowerPoint presentations, you first need to outline the purpose of the presentation, decide how large your audience is, and then design and deliver the presentation in the allotted time. 1. Keep your text concise. With PowerPoint presentations use no more than 5-7 lines of text per slide, so that the [...]