Top Ten Tips for Screwing-up a Presentation

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Top Ten Tipsfor Screwing-up a Presentation

• Presented by someone
• who has screwed-up a lot of presentations
• (and has watched others do the same)

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Tip 10

• Clutter your slides
• with
• graphics
• that
• distract
• from what
• you are
• saying.
• And use a small font too.

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Tip 9

• Dont proof your slides very, very carefully
• If you use bad grammer and speeling on a slide
  people think you aint really all that smart

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Tip 8

• Put a lot of text on a slide and then read it to
  your audience so that they think you think they
  cant read and dont forget to talk fast too. Or
  assume they will read the slides and then they
  will not listen to what you are saying and what
  you are saying may actually be interesting unlike
  the text on this slide.

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Tip 7

• Memorize
• your
• presentation
• and
• talk like a robot.

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Tip 6

• Look at only the
• cute people
• in the room.

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Tip 5

• Dont test your stuff in enough time to make
  adjustments.
• Dont test your technology.
• Dont test your clothes.

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Tip 4

• Dont anticipate the questions.
• Faint when you dont know the answer to a
  question (and hope for the sympathy of the
  audience).

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Tip 3

• Make sure you
• run out of time
• and dont get a chance
• to make your
• main points.

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Tip 2

• Allow people to
• forget about you
• as soon as you
• sit down.

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Tip 1

• Dont give a flip
• about the kind of audience
• you have.

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Top 10 Tips

• 10. Clutter your slides.
• 9. Dont proof your slides.
• 8. Put a lot of text on a slide and read.
• 7. Memorize and talk like a robot.
• 6. Look at only the cute people.
• 5. Dont test in enough time.
• 4. Dont anticipate the questions.
• 3. Run out of time.
• 2. Allow people to forget about you.
• 1. Dont give a flip about the audience you
  have.