Presentation Techniques

The dos and don'ts of pitching a media report.

Dos

• When rehearsing your presentation, the most important part of performing, video your presentation. This helps to find the flaws, thus making your performance much smoother.
• Create an outside piece for your power point, involve your viewers, create a challenge or bring something along to enhance you performance.
• KNOW YOUR INFORMATION, you should be able to report the data without looking at any support features.
• Be passionate, have the need to succeed and want others to feel the same about your product.
• Ensure that a good balance between laziness and outgoing is well kept, as too outgoing will become annoying and hardwork to keep on track. When Lazy the clients become bored and uninterested.

Don'ts

• Be lazy, read of your power point or shows signs of boredom.
• Make the presentation longer than the time that is given, show that your time management is good.
• Allow yourself to be sidetracked, don't go of the rails and talk about other things that don't relate to the idea you're trying to put forward.
• Talk too slowly or too quickly, as viewers could loose track of what you're talking about.