10 Presentation tips from the Cluetrain

I’ve been rereading this little book, Cluetrain Manifesto, and the 95 tips it offered 5 years ago to people making sales presentations.

Network marketers: Before you make another presentation to even one more person, check it against this list of imperatives. That is, if you want to make your listeners feel special.

Top-10 Cluetrain Theses: Imperatives for presenters

NOTE: The list of 10 starts about halfway down the page.

P.S. Here are three:

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7) “Learning to speak with a human voice is not a parlor trick. It can’t be ‘picked up’ at some tony conference.”

8) “The inflated self-important jargon you sling around — in the press, at your conferences — what’s that got to do with us?”

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