Comments on: How To Give A Horrendous Investor Pitch http://infochachkie.com/horrendous-investor-pitch/ Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Abraham http://infochachkie.com/horrendous-investor-pitch/comment-page-1/#comment-74 John Abraham Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:26:23 +0000 http://www.infochachkie.com/?p=97#comment-74 for those trying to improve general presentations, this is a good resource: http://www.presentationzen.com/ for those trying to improve general presentations, this is a good resource:

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]]> By: Ben Kiblinger http://infochachkie.com/horrendous-investor-pitch/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Ben Kiblinger Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:43:49 +0000 http://www.infochachkie.com/?p=97#comment-73 Normally I do pretty well at presenting in person or delivering online webinars, but one time I really flubbed it! Just before the webinar started I was testing the "mute audience" feature (testing anything just before is a mistake). During the test I pressed the speakerphone button on the phone to insure I was hands free. Following my successful test of the mute audience feature I pressed the speaker phone button and began the presentation. Happy I had successfully muted potential audience interruptions, I began marching through my well prepared comments for the slides. After 20 minutes I was nearing the end of my slide show so I checked the chat feature to see if any questions had come in for the Q & A at the end. Instead of questions I saw dozens of "can't hear you!" entries. A chill ran up my spine as I realized I had accidentally turned off my speakerphone with the second push and had just been speaking enthusiastically to the air while flipping slides. What followed was my only possible recovery. I pressed the speaker phone button and said "can you hear me now?" My muted attendees kindly chatted back "yes" and I started the presentation over from slide 1 after apologizing for the "technical difficulty". Amazingly almost all of the attendees stayed on until the end. After this experience I decided not to test just before starting and to have a second set of eyes watching incoming chat messages. Normally I do pretty well at presenting in person or delivering online webinars, but one time I really flubbed it! Just before the webinar started I was testing the “mute audience” feature (testing anything just before is a mistake).

During the test I pressed the speakerphone button on the phone to insure I was hands free. Following my successful test of the mute audience feature I pressed the speaker phone button and began the presentation. Happy I had successfully muted potential audience interruptions, I began marching through my well prepared comments for the slides.

After 20 minutes I was nearing the end of my slide show so I checked the chat feature to see if any questions had come in for the Q & A at the end. Instead of questions I saw dozens of “can’t hear you!” entries. A chill ran up my spine as I realized I had accidentally turned off my speakerphone with the second push and had just been speaking enthusiastically to the air while flipping slides.

What followed was my only possible recovery. I pressed the speaker phone button and said “can you hear me now?” My muted attendees kindly chatted back “yes” and I started the presentation over from slide 1 after apologizing for the “technical difficulty”. Amazingly almost all of the attendees stayed on until the end.

After this experience I decided not to test just before starting and to have a second set of eyes watching incoming chat messages.

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