Roger C. Parker's Resource Center

Adobe Acrobat adds impact to your PowerPoint presentations

Create and deliver more convincing presentations by making Adobe Acrobat your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software partner.

There's more to presentations than Microsoft PowerPoint, even though PowerPoint is the presentation software of choice for most business presentations. Adobe Acrobat complements PowerPoint, allowing you to show more, with greater ease.

As explained in the latest issue of my Guerrilla Marketing and Design newsletter, Acrobat's F11 Full Screen View permits you to display a variety of properly sized horizontal and vertical visuals, created using several different software programs, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, Microsoft Publisher newsletters, Photoshop visuals, and Adobe InDesign publications.

All this, plus added protection in case "something goes wrong" on the way to your presentation! Read about it here and subscribe to future issues here.

New book provides fresh thinking about presentation content

If you've ever been forced to sit through a presentation consisting of nothing but bullet charts, you'll love the fresh perspective provided by Cliff Atkinson in his latest book, Beyond Bullet Points (Microsoft Press).

Cliff is an original thinker, as you'll see when you visit his Beyond Bullets blog.

Instead of focusing on software features, Cliff concentrates on content and sequence. He shows how to adapt centuries of storytelling technique to your next presentation task. Beyond Bullet Points provides a Microsoft Word content template that will make it easy for you to use storyboarding your next presentation.

With this book, Microsoft Press has broken new ground in a concept-oriented book that speeds a unwanted, but necessary, task and helps you communicate more effectively.

Creating visuals for telephone sales

How much extra money each month would you make if you could close just two extra sales a day? Follow this 6 step program to create effective visuals to show online while talking to your client or prospect on the phone. Download

Secrets of successful presentations

 Learn how to create effective presentation visuals and handouts. Find out how to effectively inform, motivate, and persuade. Discover 7 steps to presentation success. Download

How to create your first online presentation

Learn a 3-step process for creating online presentations you can share one-to-one, or one-to-many. Contains practical tips and techniques for making the most of every telephone-based sales presentation. Download

Turn telephone calls into presentations

For less than the cost of two fast-food lunches a month, you can show, as well as describe, your products and services to clients and prospects while talking to them on the phone. Discover the power of 24/7 presentation. Download