Keynote is easily one of the strongest presentations apps. We find Keynote provides the most “wow” of the 3 programs in the iWork suite as Keynote is one that truly shows off the visual capabilities of the iPad.

Basic Features

Keynote can create dazzling presentations with animated transitions and graphics on your iPad. If you plan on using Keynote with any frequency, you should look into buying a keyboard for your iPad to work effectively. Keynote is very intuitive to work with and allows you to create presentations that display photos, graphics, and bullet pointed text. Just remember with the iPad version of Keynote you are limited to what files and formats the iPad display.

Templates – Currently Keynote comes with 12 standard templates that cover most types of presentations from display sales and financial data for businesses to school presentations. When selecting a template, you will be prompted to insert pictures and fill out texts. The interface is very intuitive and user friendly and you just follow the instructions to create the basic presentation.

Slide Transitions – You have a choice of slide transitions: flip, dissolve, pop, twirl, spin, zoom, and many more. You are not limited to one type of transition for a presentation as you can choose from the menu of transitions from one slide to the next.

Style Text – When creating or editing a presentation, you can change the text style as you wish. To change the text style, just tap a text block to select it. Tap the Style text “icon to get to the “Style, Text, and Arrange” tabs. The Style text icon is the located in the upper right hand corner of Keynote. It’s the farthest left icon in the upper right hand corner that looks like a lowercase “I” within a white circle. After you select the style text icon a pop-up box with appear allowing you to change the style, text, and arrangement of the highlighted text.

Images and Graphics – The next icon to the right of the Style Text icon allows you insert media, tables, charts, and shapes. This icon looks like a mountain range in a picture frame. This icon allows you format and add photos as well as other graphics including tables and charts in your presentation.

Animated Transitions – Right after the “images and graphics” icon is the animated transitions icon. This icon looks like 2 diamonds. To add animated transitions, on the left hand side tap any thumbnail slide in your presentation. A “none” box will appear next to that slide. Tap the “none” box. This bring up the “Transitions” pop up box. Simply go through the list of transitions and choose whichever you wish. Tap the “Options” tab in the transition box to edit the length and time of the transition. This will allow you to create self running Keynote presentations and decide how long the viewer watches each slide.

Change settings – To change the settings tap the “Tools” Menu. This icon looks like a wrench. From this tool you can print, adjust settings, use the search tool, and get help. In addition you can add notes for the presenter by tapping “Presenter Notes.” Under “Settings,” you can spell check your presentation as well as select the edge guides and slide numbers.

Playing a presentation – The play icon is the normal triangle shape icon we are all use to seeing. Once you start to play your Keynote presentation, tap or swipe the slide to go onto the next slide. If you want the presentation to run automatically without tapping a slide after pressing the play icon, set your transitions to advance automatically.

Adding a New Slide – Tap the “+” icon in the bottom left hand corner to add a new slide. A pop up box will appear allowing you to choose the format of the Slide. Among the selections you can choose a Title page, blank page, partially formatted text page, etc.

Creative birthday presents can be great for your loved ones and friends. These kinds of presents would really tickle the recipients as they appreciate it. However, what ideas are best to produce these kinds of present? Read more of this article and learn.

Birthdays are considered to be the most special occasion in our lives since it marks the milestones of our age. During this time, we always mesmerized the past year that gone through in our life. And as we mesmerized all the events and memories that have happened, it’s quite sweet and overwhelming to receive creative birthday presents. Nowadays, there are so many options that we choose in giving birthday presents to someone. Despite the many options available both from online and local stores, we always want the best, unique and creative birthday presents that we can give. Because in this way, we make the person feel special on his or her special day

Giving personalized and creative birthday presents is a great idea if you want to make the recipient feel extra special. Aside from the personal touch, this idea is very practical as well. Some of the personalized birthday presents that you can give can be luxurious engraved and perfumed soaps, candy bars, wine or beer bottle with the name of the recipient printed on the label, a set of personalized wine mugs or glasses, jewelry, tote bags, ornaments, pottery and many more

Food hampers are also great as creative birthday presents. It can be filled with the favorite food flavors of the recipient. The fillers can be something chocolaty, spicy, savory and piquant. The hampers can also be designed in accordance to the age of the recipient. Aside from food flavors, the hampers can be filled with other kinds of goodies, tiny satin bows, tinsels and other related stuffs that will make it look merrier. If the recipient is your best friend or buddy, you can fill the hamper with some music CDs, scrap books, photographs, videos, favorite books and many more that will bring back your shared moments and memories together as friends. There’s no greater gift in this world like cherished and treasured friendship. On the hamper, you can label it as “love forever hamper”.

Handmade gifts are also great as creative birthday presents since it has that personal touch and labor on it. If you are someone who is very skillful when it comes to craft making then this is the best time to make someone happy with your beautiful and unique craft works. Handmade jewelries would best with the use of various beads and metal or plastic wires, you can create bracelets, brooch, earrings, and necklace from it.

Any versions of miniature of art works are also great for creative birthday presents. Samples of these works may include replicas of statues, monuments, and famous paintings.

In my previous article about presenting, I was talking about how we can’t all be at our best every day or every hour.

But if you get your best possible presentation down on paper and then firmly entrench it in the back of your head, you’ll be certain to make a better average presentation than you ever have before. It will also give you confidence during off days.

Now, knowing what you do about your own proposition, if you were in your prospect’s shoes you’d want it, wouldn’t you? Well then your task is simple; you have only to make your prospect feel the same way about it that you do yourself and the order is yours.

And how are you going to do this?

By conveying to your prospect the very things that have made you feel the way you do. You can hardly expect the prospect to view matters the way you do in the first place. If they did, their orders would be coming in through the Internet or the mail.
That’s what you are there for – to make them feel the way you do and arouse their desire.

Fear – Haste – Uncertainty

* Fear is a dangerous four-letter word – an emotional response to impending or imagined danger that is tied to anxiety. They’re all enemies of the successful presentation. Why should you fear? The worst that can happen to you is not to get the order. And you can’t lose anything that you haven’t got.

* Haste, why should you hurry?
You must make your listener understand in order to get the order. You certainly can’t make them understand by rattling off your presentation as if you were paid by the number of words you got out per minute. Listen and record yourself sometime. Are you interesting to listen to? Are you clear and with a voice of different tones?

* Uncertainty?
You can’t be uncertain. You know too much of the merit of what you’re selling to waver one second from the absolute knowledge that you are there to benefit the person you’re talking to.

You’re too strong to let fear, haste, or uncertainty wrecks your plans. Leave them to the weaker ones.

I’ve seen lots of salespeople who the minute they encounter opposition put themselves on the defensive, and take the attitude of trying to prove that they are not liars. They’re predestined to failure. You are the captain of your presentation.

You know what you are going to say. You know how you are going to say it. You know that what you are going to say and the way you say it are going to direct your prospect’s mind to the final point of desire for what you sell.

So let your facts come as gospel. State them as undeniable, irrefutable truths. Let your deep sincerity and positive statements head off objections and overcome arguments before they are raised. Assume that your listener believes you; give them facts they can believe, and in the majority of cases they will.

Simply make it easier for them to believe than not to.

Avoid the pitfalls of long words and small superfluous arguments. Remember that the salesperson, to be effective, must get it across in the quickest, most convincing sort of way. Long words and so-called “clever talking” defeat their very object; they are offensive instead of impressive. And those little, good-for-nothing arguments don’t get the orders. Stick to the big points of your proposition: the points that count – the tried and true order-getters. You know them. Use them.

Whenever you open your mouth to make a presentation forget that you ever made one before, or that you’re ever going to make one again. There is just one person in the world to be sold, and that is the person you are talking to. You can’t sell that person by thinking of the person you sold yesterday or the one you are going to sell this afternoon. The person is before you; concentrate on that one.

Remember, no matter how old your arguments are to you, they ring fresh in that person’s ears. And the same points that sold your proposition last year and the same ones that will sell it next year will sell it this very minute to the person you’re talking to.

Leave no possible questions unanswered in your prospect’s mind. Some people have a tendency verbally to say, “Yes,” without really being convinced, just to be agreeable or avoid argument. Instead of trying to get a mere verbal assent, bend your endeavors toward making a prospect’s mind completely and absolutely convinced of the truth of what you are saying.

In this way, step-by-step, as you go through your presentation you will gain a general approval on every point you make. Then – when you return to the net result of getting the order – your prospect cannot raise a point, and go back and disagree with you.