Quick Practical, Tactical Tips for Presentations. In the past I’ve given some tips for handling meetings effectively, covering topics like: - How not to let your meeting go down a rat hole; - Dealing with the elephant in the room; - Dealing with skeletons in your closet; - How to make meetings discussions, not “pitches” - A tale of two pitches (I eventually invested in the first company that pitched) Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation.
This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides 1. Sit closest to the projection screen – Many times a week I have entrepreneurs who do presentations for me and often I’m with some or all of my colleagues. If you look at Diagram A above you’ll see that the presenters are sitting at the opposite end of the table from where the screen is. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. So, there you have it. How to Create and Submit Websites to Search Engines like Google. If you want more people to visit your website, you need to know how to make your website search engine friendly, and then submit your URL to all the major search engines.
This site is devoted to teaching you how to do it yourself, cheaply, effectively, and with a minimum of hassle. SelfPromotion.com has been providing the basic facts about website promotion in two centuries (barely!). Here you will find all the information you need, plus some nifty automatic submission tools that will help you get the job done quickly, efficiently, and most of all, properly! If you invest a little time into reading and using this resource, you'll not only do a much better job of promoting your site, but save yourself a lot of time and effort in the process -- not to mention, you'll avoid the costly traps that most newbie webmasters fall into.
Important note: the search engine landscape has changed radically in the many years since I first created this site. I run this site in a totally different way. Can't Start, Won't Start: Tricks for Overcoming Procrastination. When it comes to glamorous procrastinators, Scarlett O’Hara is one of our most enduring icons.
A quick sampling of her lines in Gone With the Wind yields: “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy.” And, “I’ll think about it tomorrow, when I can stand it.” And, of course, her famous closing line: “After all… tomorrow is another day!” It turns out that O’Hara was a bit of a trailblazer in the “I’ll-do-it-tomorrow” category.
Few of us are strangers to the malingering to-do list item – typically a difficult or complex activity – that we just can’t seem to get motivated for today. Only about 5 percent of Americans admitted to regularly procrastinating in the 1970s, today it’s a whopping 26 percent. The question, then, is: How can we recalibrate – or just plain trick – our psyches and our selves into mustering up the right mixture of self-discipline and external motivators to take action sooner rather than later? Here are a few suggestions for overcoming procrastination: 1. Cut Yourself some Slack and Focus on the Essentials to Stay Productive When Tragedy Strikes.