1. Creative Opening – your first impression
2. Meaningful Content – sharing what you know
3. Compelling Close – your lasting impression
You owe your audience a good performance and it’s directly related to your preparation.
If you give a dynamic performance, you have nothing to worry about but if you give a terrible performance, you have two things to worry about… HILARIOUS: Mike Goodwin – There are only two Things to worry about
All three recorded sessions below:
Effective Sales Presentation Skills by Bill Attardi – YouTube
Bill Attardi’s Effective Sales Presentations #2
Effective Sales Presentations with Bill Attardi, #3 – YouTube
You owe your audience a good performance! This is about giving an effective sales presentation to a group of customers and closing that sale. Not as easy as it sounds. Had the great pleasure to be a speaker at a recent Amerlux sales meeting here in New Jersey when I presented this topic. Went well and now we are offering it to the general public.
First 30-minute session covered:
Preparation Strategy – The Will to Prepare to Win
Second 30-minute session covered:
Presentation Strategy – Bring to the meeting something no one else knows…
Third 30-minute session covered:
Organizing the Presentation – FFAB (Features / Functions / Advantages / Benefits)
Techniques in Presenting – When you stop getting better, you stop being good
Personal Delivery – Mechanics of Communicating Effectively Orally
Commitment: you will confirm some of what you already know and you will learn something new about giving an effective sales presentation to close those sales that are so important that you are asked to address a group of customers.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day—whether you’re going fact or legend, it’s a great excuse to celebrate!
St. Patrick is a mix of solid historical fact and popular myth/legend that grew over centuries. He was a real historical figure—a British-born missionary (likely from what is now Scotland or northern England/Wales area) who lived in the 5th century (roughly 385–461 AD). His birth name was probably Maewyn Succat, and he became known as Patricius (Patrick) later. He wrote two surviving documents: his Confessio (Confession) and a letter to Coroticus, which are the main primary sources about his life. These confirm he was kidnapped by Irish raiders as a teenager, enslaved in Ireland for about six years (herding sheep), escaped, trained for the church, and returned as a missionary bishop to convert the Irish to Christianity. He wasn’t the first Christian in Ireland—some communities already existed—but he’s credited with major missionary work and is the patron saint of Ireland.
Many beloved St. Patrick’s Day traditions and stories are myths or later embellishments: Myth: He drove the snakes out of Ireland. Completely legendary. Ireland has had no native snakes since the last Ice Age (about 10,000+ years ago)—the post-glacial island was isolated, and snakes never recolonized it. The “snakes” story symbolizes driving out paganism or “evil” but it’s not historical. Myth: He used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. This is a charming story, but it doesn’t show up in Patrick’s own writings or early biographies. While the shamrock (a three-leaf clover) became a symbol of Ireland and St. Patrick’s Day, the Trinity analogy is probably a later invention. Myth: St. Patrick was Irish by birth. No—he was Romano-British, captured and brought to Ireland against his will. Other common myths: Green wasn’t always the color associated with him or the holiday; massive parades and “wearing of the green” became big in America first; he didn’t drink green beer or eat corned beef and cabbage, those are more modern Irish-American traditions. In short: The man himself is fact—a brave, devout missionary who helped spread Christianity in Ireland. But many of the fun, magical tales attached to him are myths.
