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How to use social media to create an audience that wants to hear you speak

Timothy Bosworth — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:35:26 +0000

Interesting and useful presentation from Pamela Slim about how to create an audience that wants to hear you speak.

View more webinars from Pamela Slim.

Presentation Summary points:

What is the root of your business
Whom are you menat to serve
What do they need
How can you address that need
Connect, amplify, advocate

Believe in your product, concept, idea etc
Be relevant to the market
Its about connection (Human connections) Are you making a difference
Stay connected – what’s the follow up – Continue the conversation

Life lessons from an ad man

Timothy Bosworth — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:37:53 +0000

Interesting talk about how advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.

Social Media – Strategies instead of Tools

Timothy Bosworth — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:25:22 +0000

Check out this great presentation about social media. If you work in the space you should definetly watch it. Enjoy. And don’t forget to leave comment.

PRSA: “Social Media – Strategies instead of Tools”

View more documents from Kevin Lim.

10 Great Presentation Resources

Timothy Bosworth — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:57:00 +0000

1. Presentation Zen – Making your presentations in the TED style
If you have not seen a TED presentation prepare to get addicted as its an amazing collection of presentations that should inspire and influence you to no end.

2. The hierarchy of Presentations - Seth Godin
“The best presentation is no presentation at all” – definitely a good read

3. Design Fast Websites I have written about this one before but its an actual presentation that combines great images, the right amount of bullets, and a cohesive message – all without the original presenter giving it to you.

4. Need help building your presentation? checkout Ethos3

5. Want to build your presentation online? Checkout 280Slides

6. Want to share your presentation or embed it in a blog? Checkout SlideShare.com

7. Want to deliver a presentation like Steve Jobs? Checkout tips from a real communications coach

8. Want to learn how to interview better? Checkout these Web 2.0 interviews (ok, not a presentation but great help for both body language and tone while speaking)

9. Powerpoints are not your presentation

10. Seth Godin - Really bad powerpoint

Source via marketing.fm

“Power Point This”

Timothy Bosworth — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:00:04 +0000

We’ve all sat in one of those endless power point presentations that went on and on and on….

Guy kawasaki back in 2005 talked about trying to remember the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. This rule is applicable for any presentation when trying to reach agreement for raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc.

Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting and venture capitalists are very normal. (The only difference between you and venture capitalist is that he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.

The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:

1.    Problem
2.    Your solution
3.    Business model
4.    Underlying magic/technology
5.    Marketing and sales
6.    Competition
7.    Team
8.    Projections and milestones
9.    Status and timeline
10.   Summary and call to action