How many of us have suffered through a PowerPoint sales presentation? You bring in a laptop, boot it up, hook it up to a projector and load the application. Maybe 5 minutes later you dim the lights and everyone sits around a table checking their email with their smart phones while you present.

Boring. And not very effective.

If people aren't engaged with you, chances are they aren't that interested in having a meaningful conversation.

A sales tool necessity for any business.

Incredible presentations. Incredibly easy.

Keynote is the powerful presentation app you love from iWork, completely reworked for iPad and Multi-Touch. So you can do everything on iPad with a tap or drag of your finger — from creating your first slide to presenting your work.

Despite the availability of its own version of iWorks, Apple's new iPad remains an entertainment device, not an obvious business tool. Still, it has possibilities. For business applications, in the hands of talented developers, the iPad could turn into something useful, if not revolutionary.

Some of the initial hype over the iPad has died a bit and now it's time to dig in and start to analyze the real value this tool (and others like it) can bring to the small business table.

In addition to the practical content consumption functions and the obvious coolness factor of the iPad, sales folks and anyone who needs to present ideas to small groups should latch onto the iPad as a killer sales tool.

Unless you live in a cave with no broadband then you will have already caught some of the hype and excitement surrounding Apple’s new iPad product.

The importance of this product has to do with the way we experience e-books, videos, audios etc. A big advance is in the area of sales presentations. Not the type where you are presenting to a whole room of people, but more for the sales presentations where you are talking with an individual prospect and you want to show something visual.

New York City may soon be run from an iPad touchscreen.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who got his iPad 3G last month, unveiled the tablet at a meeting in Staten Island on Tuesday.

As the Daily News reports, Bloomberg bought the device at the behest of his scheduler, Shea Fink, and used it on Tuesday in place of his daily briefing book. The mayor told his audience that the device will save both time and paper.

"He wants to try using it for speeches, as well as...for reference - things like news clips, key budget documents," a spokesman for the mayor said in an email.

 

To deliver a persuasive iPad sales presentation you must:

• Be clear and concise.
• Differentiate your offering  from your competitors.
• Engage your audience with information that interests them.
• Let your audience know what's in it for them. Where is there gain?

 

Incredible presentations. Incredibly easy.

Keynote is a powerful presentation software that comes with iWork for your desktop computer. Keynote is also an app that can be downloaded to your iPad. When used on the iPad it allows users to engage their audience with exciting featuers that take advantage of the Multi-Touch display. So now you can do everything on the iPad with a tap or drag of your finger — from creating your first slide to presenting your work.