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It appears that someone has spoofed the 154Consulting.com domain and has been emailing broadly from it. We are aware of the problem and are working to correct it.

Apologies.

As of January 24, 2011, 154 Consulting is no longer accepting clients. To reach either of our principals or any of our contractors (some of whom continue to offer project work in design), please email info@154Consulting.com.

We are once again pleased to partner with the team at Finovate for the Finovate Fall 2010 event.

John Fishback, head of our financial services product group, will be providing reviews and coaching for each of the companies demoing at the event.

If you are a participating company and have not yet scheduled a session, please reach out to John directly and soon. There are very few time slots remaining.

John's new guest post for Finovate is live.

This post talks about closing an effective demo, and looks at how well BrightScope's Ryan Alford used his conclusion at Finovate 2009 in New York.

We're late to post this, but John's first guest blog entry for Finovate.com has been live at their site for several weeks.

John reviews GoSimplifi's best-in-show-winning 2009 Finovate Startup demo, focusing on how effectively CEO Bryan Link differentiated his company in the demo's introduction.

As a part of our partnership with the Finovate family of conferences, John, the head of our financial services product group, will be writing a series of guest posts on the Finovate.com blog.

The posts will analyze videos of Finovate demos to offer both insights on the products being demoed and helpful suggestions for those developing similar demos.

154 Consulting is looking forward to participating in Finovate2009.

You can find an explanation of our partnership with Finovate here.

If you are presenting a demo at the conference, you can find more detail about the services Finovate has arranged for us to provide here.

It's been a long week here at 154 Consulting. We faced an unwelcome attack on our website. We've recovered, but rather than simply putting our old site back up, we've pulled forward a site redesign we had planned for Fall 2009. We appreciate your patience with us as we relaunch the site, and in particular thank those of you who are revisiting our blog. We will be reposting many, but not all, of our prior postings. Please update your RSS reader with our new feed.

With our thanks, it's back to business. As always, please feel free to contact us at info@154Consulting.com.

No one is helped by diagnostic tools that funnel you to one “right” answer and serve only to suggest that you need to purchase expensive consulting services.

Instead, we offer these questions as a way to help you assess whether your presentations, the presentations you hear from your direct reports, and your offsite meetings/retreats are serving you well.

If you don’t like your answers to these questions, 154 Consulting would be happy to help you make some changes. Email us at info@154Consulting.com for more information.

Assessing Your Own Presentations

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