Feeling the Pinch? Or feeding the Pitch instead? - September 7th, 2009
In these straightened times we’re all feeling the pinch and it's suddenly normal to be a little edgy, not like a rabbit in the headlights exactly, but just a fraction off-balance. Almost as if you might be wasting time or missing an opportunity somewhere without realizing.
Chances are you’re a little distracted and not making the most of the meetings that really count - the ones where you stand up to make your pitch. These meetings tend to be where large sums are won (or lost), so few things can be as important as the preparation that goes into getting them absolutely right.
We're all familiar with the scenario. You work late getting ideas in shape, go through agonies wondering if the focus is in the right place, is the message clear enough, what are the hot-buttons, who might be negative etc. etc. and then you run out of time to make the slides.
So, here comes the bit when, at midnight, you start doing battle with PowerPoint. You're all alone and wishing you had more graphics to draw on, more PowerPoint training. You particularly wish you had that presentation your colleague made last year, because you could have re-used half their slides. Oh dear.
Well, that's why we thought up Slidebank.com since, wherever you are, whatever time it is, all your company slides are just sitting there waiting to be re-used.
Did you know that professionally-produced slides cost around $100 each but that, on average, they get only used twice? That's bad, but not half so bad as staying up all night re-inventing the wheel all by yourself.
Having been in this situation many times we got curious and started adding up how much money the company would save if everyone had access to all the slides they might need at all times. Next we realized that the time spent wrestling with PowerPoint could be reduced, leaving more time to actually rehearse our pitches. That's a massive payback.
The numbers got scarily large, so much so that we didn't believe them until we'd had an accountant check out the arithmetic. The result was a Financial White Paper to examine how much time & money could be saved by using a Presentation Management system.
Try this for yourself and plug in your own numbers and see much more efficient you can be where it counts - on your feet at the sharp end!
Fact is, with a few well-chosen tools you can be in control of The Pitch; instead of the other way round.
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