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ZoomTopic Manual - PREPARE

Write your presentation or plan your gallery

This section of the manual is the based on the advice presented in the "Star Gallery" world template.

Read this section if you have not written presentations before - or would like to be reminded of the key points. You may also find our links page useful for writing presentations.

Goals of your presentation
- present ideas/information
- be understood
- be remembered
- trigger a response

Benefits of ZoomTopic
- templates
- quick and easy
- memorable
- portable

Planning the presentation
- What message do you want you audience to take home?
- What concepts do your audience need to understand?
- Set the scene, a context for your message, at the start
- Don't be afraid to repeat yourself, people learn through repetition
- Give examples
- Tell them the benefits
- Your audience remembers more if it likes you, so talk as a friend
- Anecdotes are memorable - especially when humourous

Writing something down
- Divide your message into five sections
- Give each section a heading or title
- State goals in the introduction section one
- Review what you have presented in the final section
- Then explain a problem or give an example after the introduction
- Next explain how the problem is resolved
- Finally give other benfits of your recommended solution
- If you need more than the five sections, extend or add sections as needed
- Remember, what you write will be the take-home message for your audience, but do not make the mistake of simply reading out these headings. Instead talk around them and refer to them as a summary of each of the points you want to make.

Final check
- Does your audience know what they should do next?
- Can you audience get in touch with you if they want?
- Does your audience know how to buy from you?