I gave a great talk to Chamber this AM

[MrPhelps]

I was the featured speaker at the Sparks Chamber's monthly BizFlash presentation.

The title was: "Seven Ways Your Website Can Make You Money".

I had 80 minutes, and spent quite a lot of time the past week preparing so I can fit it all in. I kept cutting stuff out, and still had too much.

I recorded the presentation with Camtasia, and used a lav mic plugged into my computer so the sound is great. I also filmed it with a Kodak Zi8 camera. (I tell ya, that HD format is not terribly good when you only have one person in the frame; too much wasted space in the frame. Too bad those cameras don't have an option for non-HD.)

I started by making a mind map using MindJet. That's what got me the gig in the first place.

When it came time to create the presentation, I used PowerPoint and just went through the mind map.

I'm making the entire package available for purchase as a PLR package (tweak it for your own use). See the Offline Gold Offers section.

The video itself (the .MOV file) is about 1GB in size. I'm not sure how to distribute that.

The camtasia video will probably be a similar size.

Maybe this is something for Kunaki?

Anyway, after the talk, a few people chatted with me. They might lead to a little business, but none sounded very juicy.

But then someone who wasn't able to make the presentation showed up and SHE wants some help! Her husband is a plastic surgeon and she does some marketing. She's been trying to get his site showing up in the SERPs, and is using AdzZoo. They're a fixed-cost PPC outfit.

Anybody know much about AdzZoo?

My partner and I are going to met with her next week.

-David

[Dexx]

Way to go David!

I hear you on the presentation lengths, I'm constantly having to edit mine out...what I *THINK* will only take 30-45 minutes ends up taking an hour+, haha

Tho the good thing is I've never had anyone complain or seem bored, and the people I present to are still excited at the end asking a ton of questions...maybe time flies when having fun?

Great work, look forward to hearing the results of your meeting with this business goes!

~Dexx

[jacquic]

Great to hear David! Well done

Wish you had been doing our Chamber talk this morning - it was stultifying boring ... death by PowerPoint in spades and a hugely boring way to talk about what would have been an interesting subject (psychometrics).

~Jacqui

[MrPhelps]

Here's the Camtasia video I made during the presentation:

http://businessimpossible.com/presentation/

-David

[George]

David,

I can't believe I watched the whole thing!

Most one hour plus homemade videos are just not that engaging. Your presentation was stellar.

George

[Bonnie]

Thanks for sharing your presentation, David!

[BAYO a.k.a. Mr. B]

Well done David.

Like Dexx said, keeping it to time is a real challenge. My rule of thumb now is 1 slide per 5 minute segment and no more than 3 points per slide. That works fairly well provided I keep to it.

So my 30 minute slots are just 3 slides start>middle>end (Questions and CTA)

Bayo

[MrPhelps]

Thanks for the kind words!

George, I wouldn't exactly call this a "homemade video". It's a recording of the actual presentation made with Camtasia. (Come to think of it, I re-rendered it with the PIP in the main video. I need to post it up there.)

Does anybody have an opinion of whether it's better or not to have the video PIP of me there with the slides? (The .m4v has it, but it's a smaller format.)

I got some feedback afterwards that my voice started to get rather monotone, which probably happened because I began to focus more on the time than on the audience. Mostly I'd say it was the last 20-30 minutes or so before the brief Q&A.

I think this material could easily fill two hours and people would be very happy with it.

@Bayo, there's no way I could cover this with one slide per 5 minutes and 3 points per slide. But that's me.

-David

[BAYO a.k.a. Mr. B]

@David - My reference was really for the 'short presentation' format where I only have a limited amount of time and have to strictly keep to it.