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Media-Presentation Tips & IR-PR Info from Media Training Worldwide January 8, 2003

Contents 1. Presentation tips 2. IR/PR professional events

TV/Media Tips

1. It doesn't matter if your interview is 60 seconds or 60 minutes long. You should communicate everything you need to in the first 30 seconds. Any additional time should be spent expanding your basic points.

2. Apply translucent powder makeup before going on TV. If you don't wear powder on your nose, forehead and face, you will look shiny, oily and plastic.

3. If you are being interviewed by remote and there is a TV monitor next to the camera, don't glance over at it to look at yourself while the interview is going on. You will look shifty-eyed, nervous and weird.

4. During a TV interview, don't look up at the ceiling when you are thinking what to say (you'll look like you are BSing). Look down if you need to look away for a moment. You'll look thoughtful.

Speaking/Presentation Tips

5. Never attempt to go to a live web site during a presentation; you are guaranteed to lose your connection.

6. When possible, ask the banquet manager to serve the dessert and coffee with the meal. That way you won't be interrupted by waiters when giving you're after-dinner speech.

7. It is not overly promotional to tell people how to contact you if they want more information or to ask you more questions. (Be ready to give out a web site address and/or a phone number.)

8. The more often you speak, the less you'll have to think about a list of dos and don'ts.

Crisis Communications

9. Don't feel obligated to grant an interview immediately to reporters who show up unannounced. Ask them their deadline and then promise them an interview at your office later that day.

10. Friday afternoon at 4:59 PM going into a Holiday weekend is a good time to put out bad news.

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Events

Below are links to the most up-to-date listings of events for members of the Investor Relations, Public Relations and Corporate Communications community

National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI)
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgRaaaaaaab/

Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgRbaaaaaab/

New York Chapter Public Relations Society of America
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgRcaaaaaab/

International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgRdaaaaaab/

OdwyerPR.com events page
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgReaaaaaab/

PR News
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgRfaaaaaab/

Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society
http://click.email-publisher.com/maaaLAqaaVgRgaaaaaab/

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Post-Training follow-up

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Media-Presentation Tips & IR-PR Info from Media Training Worldwide January 8, 2003

Media Training | presentation skill training | media interview training
media coaching | interview coaching | reputation management