Making a Presentation Memorable

00:00 There are two main ways. The first is you've got to have compelling, interesting stories, not made up stories, not stories from a book, but stories about your actual conversations with real people, colleagues, clients, customers, family members, stories that relate to the message that's important to your audience.

00:21 The next thing is, you have to bring some passion to this subject.

00:25 Those are the two things that people remember over and over again.

00:30 As I asked clients from six continents, from all over the world, What speeches do you remember? What do you remember about them? That's what I hear again and again.

00:39 Interesting stories, the passion someone had for their subject matter.

00:45 That's what will make your speech memorable.

00:48 What's going to not make your speech memorable is having all the bullet points just so, having the logo perfectly centered on your PowerPoint.

00:56 That's not going to do it.

00:58 You've got to have these compelling stories and deliver it in a way where you're reliving the emotion. So, for example, I don't tell somebody, Oh, I've been on thousands of talk shows and some have been difficult.

01:09 That's abstract.

01:11 Or I don't just say that.

01:12 I then tell a story about the time I was down in Florida and talk radio show, political show, and the host pulls a gun on me on the air, and I was scared out of my mind.

01:25 Now, to find out more details, you'll have to listen to more of these videos.

01:29 But that's a story people remember once I flesh out more details.