My dad always tells me, "Everything always works in theory." The takeaway for me being that nothing really is fact until it is applied in a situation with gravity.
This week, it was great to learn about the principles of presentations, regardless of the medium of communication. For the most part, I was mentally present and did what I could to apply the principles to our assignments. To be totally honest, though, I just filed the information away. That was until Wednesday.
For the past six months, I have been working with a company I co-founded. We have launched six websites (BYU, U of U, ASU, U of A, Auburn, and Alabama) that aggregate college sports news from all relevant sources. For example, our BYU site pulls articles from KSL, Desert News, SBNation blogs, Rivals.com, LoyalCougars.com, and many others. We then sell ads on the pages to make some money. Our success has been about what we expected, and now we are working our tails off to launch all the FBS schools (130+) by June 1, 2014. One of the projects my team and I worked on this week is putting together an investor presentation. Then, on Wednesday, I was told I will be required to raise some capital from some contacts I have in order for us to meet our June 1 launch date. All this presentation stuff just got very real.
So, all this presentation theory just became immensely relevant to me. I realized that I have to apply these principles of presentation in order to help raise the capital we need to realize the goals my team and I have for our company.
Rock on.
Nyal
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That's tight to hear that your company is doing well. It sounds like a great idea. It's amazing how applicable the things we learn in this class really are. Presenting is such a major part of life no matter what you do. Good luck with everything.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it so strange when what we learn in school actually becomes applicable? And sounds like this lesson came at exactly the right time, too! My favorite thing about presenting was the idea that the presentation is to be focused on the audience, not the presenter. I bet that if you focus on each school you're trying to sell and how it could individually benefit them, you'll have success for sure!
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