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You don’t need to buy an expensive program to make a PowerPoint presentation anymore. You can go online and use online applications like TeamSlide or Opshare to create your own. Another one is called Beam Your Screen. The point of them all is the same though. It allows you to share power point presentations with the public or your affiliates.

These are personal web application that actively presents power point slide presentations to larger groups of people. You control the presentation from your browser while your viewers watch your presentation in theirs.

The amazing thing about this online tool that is truly cross-platform. It requires no plug-in, no Flash player and no downloads. There is no technical hassle of any kind for anyone who would like to participate in viewing your power point presentation.

A program like Teamslide works equally well in Internet Explorer (IE), Safari and Firefox web browsers. Aside from the free version there is also a professional version that you can install on your hosted webspace or webserver.

The good thing about this is that it does give you that unique content that is so important to offer the visitors to your site. If the content of your power point presentation is truly valuable then you will see visitors returning to your site to learn from the presentation again and again. This of course will help boost your rankings in the search engine page as the more visitors your web site has, the more favored you will be by the search engine algorithms.

A PowerPoint presentation can also be a very useful viral tool to post on other sites especially if it consistently points to your site as being the place to purchase items described in the presentation or the place to learn more about what is being shown.

Have you ever been hypnotised? You may not know it yet, but even if you think you’ve never been hypnotised it possibly happened whilst you were at work.

You may find this story of a coincidence enlightening.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a group hypnosis session. It turns out I’m not particularly susceptible to hypnosis but after 20 minutes we were given a suggestion that we couldn’t move our arms. I wanted to prove I wasn’t hypnotised; I knew I could move if I really wanted to, but, somehow just didn’t drum up the energy to move – it was far too comfortable lying there without moving and I was effectively paralysed. This is apparently quite a normal experience of hypnosis.

Last week I found myself behaving in the same way but this time I hadn’t willingly or knowingly been hypnotised – and it wasn’t the intention of the ‘hypnotist’ either. At an economic forum update the room was comfortably warm, the seats were deep, the lights were dimmed for the slides and the speaker was familiar with his material.

After about 30 minutes he asked for questions. Nobody volunteered, so the facilitator asked some questions of the ‘expert panel’. One of them made a very interesting point with which I agreed wholeheartedly and wanted to voice my agreement, but I couldn’t rouse myself to say or do anything; I felt paralysed. And then I realised it was exactly the same physical and mental state as when I’d been hypnotised.

The conditions for this, and many presentations, are similar to those deliberately chosen for the hypnosis session; muted lighting, comfortable warm surroundings, lots of other people being still, and a voice talking to us.

And, on reflection, how often do speakers experience difficulty in getting the audience to actively participate or ask questions at the end of a presentation – are we regularly in a state of light hypnosis?

In a hypnotic state we absorb information quite effectively so this is one way way to present information to people. But a key feature of hypnosis is that the critical faculties are turned off – they stop evaluating what they see, hear or feel.

So if you need people to actively absorb information you present, and particularly if you want them to consider it, challenge it or engage with it, presenting it through the power of hypnosis is not the most effective way of doing it.

But that’s exactly what many, many presentations do.

Do you ever find that people said they were interested in your ideas before your presentation but then it’s really hard to get them to respond once you’ve got started; or you’ve told a group that you’d really like this to be interactive and they are to ask questions and then feel frustrated when nobody asks any. Even more frustrating is the experience when you’ve asked for a decision and then find people seem to be going against it when they are back in the office?

Then perhaps you may want to consider what state they are in when you present the information to them. Perhaps they are literally in no fit state to critically evaluate the information they’ve been given and respond. They can only do that when they’ve been reawakened by walking back to the office – by which time it may be too late.

So have you ever been hypnotised? Have you ever been a hypnotist yourself?

Adding fire pits to your business presentations is fun and unique way to engage your audience and keep their undivided attention. Everyone who has any public speaking experience knows how difficult it can be to break through to you audience and get them to lower their guard enough to deliver your message effectively. Although there are a number of key factors that you are in control of such as body language and eye contact that you can use to keep your audience engaged, there are also some other things that you can use to your advantage. Fire pits provide an interesting way to capture your audience’s attention and imagination during a business presentation.

In recent years, medical experts have discovered that the physical setting that a person is immersed in has a huge impact on their ability to learn and retain information. This is because the cognitive processes that drive memory and attention are directly influenced by the parts of the visual cortex that are dedicated to what is known as contextual process. Contextual processing is how the mind processes the physical setting that a person is in, and it is hardwired to focus on certain types of objects, such as faces and the fire in fire pits. The mind perceives fire in a unique way that relaxes the body while peeking a person’s interest in what is going on around him or her.

In fact, people have been giving presentations of one sort in front of fire pits for thousands of years. From Native Americans and other indigenous groups to stories told around a campfire, there is something about a fire in a pit that makes an audience settle down and take whatever a speaker has to say very seriously. As a result, people have been using fire pits to impart important cultural traditions or discuss defense strategies for thousands of years.

Everyone has been in a position where he or she has had to sit through endless business presentations that were given by boring speakers who were clearly just phoning it in. You owe it to your audience to give them a business presentation worth listening to, and using fire pits in your presentation is a great way to show your audience that you take yourself seriously. While it may take your audience a minute to get used to the idea, you will find that they will be taking about your presentation and the fire pits for long after your performance.