Make It Count Quotes

“Your job is to make the audience care.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“Your audience has got a long list of things that they'd rather be doing than listening to you!”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“The problem with most presentations is they emotionally flatline and the audience struggles to connect with the speaker and the message as a result. A presentation needs both positive and negative moments in order for it to be an engaging and memorable experience.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“Emotional contrast creates memories.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“A simple way to start clarifying your presentation’s purpose is to consider your audience’s pre-presentation and post-presentation attitudes, beliefs and knowledge.
In other words:
What do they think right now?
What do they need to think after my presentation?
This will help you determine where your presentation needs to take your audience from and to.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work

“What you say matters.”
― Alex Merry, Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work