Starting and Ending With a "BANG"

Hello again...
A lot of people don't realize the strong importance of beginning and ending a presentation or pitch. The introduction is what will interest your audience to want to listen to the entire presentation. Grabbing your audience's attention right away is crucial. If your audience is not interested right away, they will have no desire to truly hear everything you have to say. Starting and ending your presentation can be sometimes stronger than your actual pitch! Believe it or not.

Here are some helpful hints and tips for your introductions:
-Start with a game or activity that involves your audience
-Tell a relative joke
-Ask audience to volunteer for something in your pitch
-Start with a relative poem or play-on-words
-play music (if appropriate)
-play a video (if appropriate)

Here are some helpful hints and tips for closing your pitch:
-Engage the audience in feedback from your presentation
-Relate your closing back to your introduction (this will also remind them of your great intro!)
-Give the audience a "take-away" ...a little gift of some sort

For more hints and tips on opening and closing your presentation/sales pitch, check out this website:
http://ezinearticles.com/?100-Creative-Presentation-Ideas&id=128782

Cheers!

~Effective Communications~

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