Text message: “Ernie can you stand in for us tomorrow for the 10 minute slot.”
Networking presentations are vital. They are your verbal business card and your “Story.” One of the few opportunities to be in front of a whole group of businesses you feel need your services.
Often you have 60 seconds to impress:60 seconds to get your message to the commercial world and keep your business running.
It can be the trigger for all manner of nervous let down, ummms, errrs and “I’ve lost my thread.”
At that moment, for that week, your chance has gone.The audience has been lost and may not have your name in mind next time they meet a member of the public looking for a —–.
Coventry Business Network asked me, at 10 hours notice, to take over the 10 minute information slot because the proposed candidate had cancelled.
My personality and my experience as a Fitness Coach have both allowed me to be comfortable in front of an audience. The necessity for attention to detail has given me the dicipline to prepare myself for the events to come…even so 10 hours for a presentation is leaving it late.