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The audience-abuse has to stop.

Time to ‘fess up. Do you think presentations are about PowerPoint with your voice on the side? Do you inflict it go-to-whoa on your audiences? Do your audiences look like hypnotized chickens in less than a minute? Okay, now that I have your confession, here’s what to do about it.

No, this has little to do with your content (that's up to you) and everything to do with the gut feeling the audience gets about your response in the first three seconds. Yes, three. Here's the method.

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