Presentation Promoter Gifts

Convention for People Who Like to Attend Conventions.

'And were there a point to your proposal, Henderson - What would it be?'

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

"You're losing the audience. Switch to the Powerpoint presentation."

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

'Which 'win' is ours? Because the one on the left looks bigger.'

"I'm razzled, but not dazzled."

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

Lethal Presentation

"Fantastic presentation! All of the investors loved it."

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

"Whereas we used to display losses in shocking and offensive red, we now display them in warm and comforting toasted almond."

'These are the end of year figures recollected in tranquility.'

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

Blue sky thinking

"It's confusing when everybody has a pointer."

"One of the most compelling graphic presentations I've ever seen!"

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

'Maybe the reason we don't have those 'off the chart' sales anymore is because our charts are too big.'

'On the plus side we've saved money by getting all the numbers on one graph.'

"Are you sure you want to present your ideas in the form of an airplane?"

'I see you're still trying to get the staff enthused over the weekly meetings.' (Meeting offers free coffee, free snacks, eye-popping charts, exciting videos and free idea pads).

"For cryin' out loud, Frank, we don't have all day! Cut to the cheese!"

'It's perfect, but can we see it in white?'

'I won't lower myself to the level of my opponent.'

Bottom line, is that the sweet smell of success or your aftershave?

"As you can see, our corporate structure is turtles all the way down."

They loved the presentation on competing in the marketplace.

Presentation skills.

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

Around here it got a little tricky...

'Duly noted. Now, shall we move on or does anyone else feel the need to have a conniption?'

"Enough about the forest, why don't you show us more trees?"

The probability of an event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability.