Thanks to those who shared their experience on making presentation to user groups. It was very helpful
information. It's my turn to share my experience......
The evening went very well for my first time doing a software presentation. Hal (my contact) & Jerry ( group president) were very helpful. I had about 45 minutes to make the presentation, the time went by so fast, & the group had a lot of questions. It is easy to get side tracked by questions & spend more time than necessary on a particular question. I came away from the evening with
some additional insight for future presentations.
1) Keep the information about Alpha
Software to a minimum, maybe just
give the url to the web site & a
couple of minutes on what
information is available on the
site. They want the meat of the
message not the advertisement.....
peak their interest, & they will
come! Open the database application
that is what they want to see!! Show
them how it works, I showed features
that could be acomplished through the
wizards & genie's. Ask them questions,
they want to give you information if you
will let them.
2) Don't bury yourself in details,
show the features & move on, you
can cover much more ground.
Answer questions, but don't spend a
lot of time creating an in depth on
the spot solution for a single
question unless it is a topic that
the majority of the group are
struggling with. Listen closely to the
questions, make sure that the it pertains
to Alpha5! I was asked a question regarding
mail merge to MS Word, the question should
have been directed to Microsoft not Alpha5,
but in the moment I precieved it as an Alpha5
question......It wasn't until I was driving to
the motel that I realized that fact. The moral
is stay calm & listen closly to every question!
The Santa Barbara PC Users Group were all very
friendly people I suspect that this is typical of
most user groups.
good luck to those who are making presentations!!!
doug
information. It's my turn to share my experience......
The evening went very well for my first time doing a software presentation. Hal (my contact) & Jerry ( group president) were very helpful. I had about 45 minutes to make the presentation, the time went by so fast, & the group had a lot of questions. It is easy to get side tracked by questions & spend more time than necessary on a particular question. I came away from the evening with
some additional insight for future presentations.
1) Keep the information about Alpha
Software to a minimum, maybe just
give the url to the web site & a
couple of minutes on what
information is available on the
site. They want the meat of the
message not the advertisement.....
peak their interest, & they will
come! Open the database application
that is what they want to see!! Show
them how it works, I showed features
that could be acomplished through the
wizards & genie's. Ask them questions,
they want to give you information if you
will let them.
2) Don't bury yourself in details,
show the features & move on, you
can cover much more ground.
Answer questions, but don't spend a
lot of time creating an in depth on
the spot solution for a single
question unless it is a topic that
the majority of the group are
struggling with. Listen closely to the
questions, make sure that the it pertains
to Alpha5! I was asked a question regarding
mail merge to MS Word, the question should
have been directed to Microsoft not Alpha5,
but in the moment I precieved it as an Alpha5
question......It wasn't until I was driving to
the motel that I realized that fact. The moral
is stay calm & listen closly to every question!
The Santa Barbara PC Users Group were all very
friendly people I suspect that this is typical of
most user groups.
good luck to those who are making presentations!!!
doug