Sales Presentations Training

NSA/Colorado is holding our March meeting this Saturday, March 10th from 8:30am to 12:30pm. If you are a professional speaker, trainer or consultant-or just thinking about it, we have a great line up this Saturday!

Our keynote speaker will be Lorrie Morgan-Ferro. A professional speaker and copywriting expert, Lori will share techniques with speakers on how to write fabulous copy for marketing material. With over 25 years of writing experience, Lorrie has worked with many top professional speakers including: Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, John Childers, Alex Mandossian and Tom Antion, just to name a few! Her presentation is filled with invaluable material. (Read on …)

The issue of PowerPoint and humor comes up frequently in questions to Presentation skills training. How do you incorporate humor with a PowerPoint presentation? At first the two seem in-congruent because all of us have been bored to death by PowerPoint. Well, I found a good example for those of you looking to brush up your presentation skills! (Read on …)

We’ve had several questions about what our presentation skills training services cover. We wanted to emphasize some of our more popular services. Executive speech coaching continues to gain popularity for executives giving public presentations and honing their media skills. Executive presentation skills training is normally done in a one on one setting. The training can be done at your location or ours. We also offer group presentations training for those giving presentations to executive committees or seeking advanced presentation skills training.

Whether your intent is to overcome a fear of public speaking or to sharpen your communication and negotiation skills please feel free to contact us with any of your presentation challenges.

Steve Mertz
Technorati Tags: Presentation Skills Training, Executive Speech Coaching, Media Relations Training

Remember the song Dirty Laundry by Don Henley?

“I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry”

Many of the CEOs that we coach feel they are more susceptible than ever to a press looking for Dirty Laundry! As a matter of fact, the fastest growing aspect of our business is Executive Speech Coaching-learning to verbal banter with the press! (Read on …)

As promised I’ve been looking at your Google searches for Sales Presentations Training. It appears that many of you have humor on your mind. Some of the search terms include: tips for adding humor to your presentation, humorous PowerPoint presentations, sales meeting humor, financial planner humor and many more. As regular readers know I am a huge fan of adding humor to presentations. Humor does not just appear out of nowhere and I’ve discussed how you can build a humor file to help in your public speaking. (Read on …)

Happy New Year! I apologize for the lack of posting-it has been hectic around here. I’m going to share with you a lot of great questions that have been coming in and Google searches that you have used to find this site. In the upcoming weeks we will get all your Sales Presentations questions answered. (Read on …)

I thought it would be beneficial to share with you the presentation I did for the Colorado Chapter of the National Speakers Association. The good and the bad! As you know, I only use Powerpoint sparingly and believe that it should only be used to enhance and clarify your presentations. Well, Saturday turned out to be the day I sparingly used it. There were approximately 100 people in attendance and the rows went straight back-The folks in the first 10-15 rows had a good view of the slides. The next 15 rows did not fare as well. First lesson, (Read on …)

The Colorado Chapter of National Speakers Association will hold our November meeting November 11,2006. The meeting goes from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. We are pleased to welcome Steve Rizzo, CPAE, as our featured speaker. Steve is a fabulous speaker and a former stand up comedian. At our monthly meeting Steve’s topic will be “Why Not Enjoy the Process?” His message is one of developing balance in business and personal life for all of us speakers. I can’t wait to hear Steve as he always delivers a humorous, compelling and educational message. Welcome to Denver, Colorado Steve!

LeAnn Thieman, CSP, will speak on From Platform to Print: “How to Write and publish Your Signature Story”. LeAnn is one of my favorite speakers as well as a great friend. LeAnn was a nurse for thirty years and coauthor of seven Chicken Soup for the Soul Books! One of my favorites was Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul. LeAnn is a very talented and inspirational speaker!

Steve Mertz, yours truly, will speak on blogging and specifically : “How to Rank in The Google Top Five.”
My talk will focus on the power of blogging and the specific Search Engine Optimization techniques I employed in taking Sales Presentations Training to the number one position in Google search! I’m honored to share my experiences with my peers.

If you are in the Denver, Colorado area and plan on attending our November meeting-Please come up and introduce yourself! Here are the details for getting the very best presentation skills in Colorado.

Steve Mertz
NSA/Colorado

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We wanted to Thank all of you who have made “Sales Presentations Training” #1 in Google search. We thank you for stopping by and leaving your comments. We are in the process of adding additional trainers and coaches to better serve you and your corporate needs. Please feel free to suggest topics you would like covered or any other suggestions you have would be most appreciated.

You know that I’m a huge fan of humor and I love this quote by Dan Pink:

“Laughter is a form of nonverbal communication that conveys empathy and that is even more contagious than the yawn…”

I picked this up from a great post over at Presentation Zen called Bill Clinton and the art of speaking in a “human voice” I hope you enjoy this and Thanks again for your continued support!

Steve Mertz
I’m a Laughter Sherpa!

Technorati Tags: Google, Sales Presentations Training, Public Speaking, Humor

Phil Rosenthal was a writer and producer for “Everybody Loves Raymond’ for its entire nine-year run. He has a new book out called “You’re Lucky You’re Funny”. I read the review on the book and liked what I read about how he incorporates humor into his show. His secret is specificity. When your are speaking to an audience there are specific pieces of humor that may only be known to that organization or association. If you do your homework and discover what humor is specific to them you are going to be there hero and remembered long after the event.

He mentions that one of the reasons we see so many failed comedies today is that writers keep looking to get the next laugh instead of trying to “tell a great story’. The same is true for you. Many executives are initially reluctant to share a personal story with their employees, I think this is a mistake. If the story has relevance to your current situation and it makes a powerful point-I would encourage you to use it in your presentation! By taking advantage of telling a great story that is personal to you-your audience will have a strong emotional bond with you and your message. don’t miss out on this opportunity! Via: New York Times.

Steve Mertz
Humor Sells Messages!

Technorati Tags: Public Speaking, Presentations, Phil Rosenthal, New York Times