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Training Your Pet Not to Unwrap Christmas Presents

The yuletide is nearing and that can only mean one thing. Okay, it means a lot of things. Eggnog and pumpkin pie, cinnamon spices, snowflake and flashing light festive displays. Oh, and of course-presents! Who here likes presents? I am pretty sure we all do.

And, while your cat or dog may not admit it to your face, the fact of the matter is they do too. Coming in to a beloved family pet chewing into the freshly wrapped present from or for grandma might cause a slight chuckle, but it usually causes us to be upset. Our pets do not want to upset us, though. And, we do not want to be upset by our pets. So, there are a number of tricks you can use to train your pets not to unwrap presents.

The first and easiest method is also used with small children. Out of sight, out of mind. This is not so much training your pet to not unwrap Christmas presents as it is simply preventing them, but it is effective. Keep presents locked up and away from your pets, and they will not be able to unwrap them.

Some might use technological devices such as mats that cause discomfort and items that causes an annoying sound that can be heard by cats and dogs to keep them at bay. This is the same basic concept. It is not really training the animal, but is it keeping our presents nice and neatly wrapped.

As with any training, you need to start early with your pets. Teach them early on that chewing on a toy is not acceptable. Reward them for being near a present and not chewing on it. Discipline them when they do chew on a present. Provide them with a toy or other distraction that will keep their attention away from the present.

Our pets need to be trained to respect our area and our property. We share our homes, our families, and our lives, but there are some things that are ours. Children learn this early on. It is okay to play with their toys on the floor, but the lamp needs to stay on the table. The same basic concept works with animals. You need to teach them that it is okay to chew on their bone and not presents.

It will take some practice and the easy way out is definitely preventing the animal from getting near the presents. But, if you really want to train your pet not to unwrap presents, it is possible.

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Microsoft PowerPoint – The Basic Programme For Public Presentations For a Computer Skills Beginner

We have going through the series titled: The Most Common Programmes in which I have been teaching you. We have gone through Windows X.P., Microsoft Word (the basic Word Processing programme), Excel (the basic spreadsheet programme). Today, we are going through PowerPoint. (to learn Windows X.P., Word and Excel, you may consult previous editions of this column).

PowerPoint is the basic programme for public presentations or shows. Such a public presentation could be a seminar, workshop, concert, talk, lecture, etc., in which the speaker is talking to an audience. The content of the speaker (i.e. of his lecture/talk) is usually displayed by PowerPoint on a large screen with the use of a projector. By this, the audience can follow along or easily take notes as the speaker speaks.

This technology is not only restricted to lectures/seminars, it could also be used in places like the Law court for example, to show evidence or other articles of interest to the court through the programme. PowerPoint is a very interesting application, and it always makes such occasions enjoyable to the participants. It makes the attention of the audience stuck to the content of the lecture, thereby making the speakers task/communication a lot easier. It can display graphics, animations, texts, videos, audios, etc., thus making the occasion interesting for both speaker and audience. In other words, with PowerPoint, as a speaker, your task is a lot easier, and as an audience, your time in listening is a lot more enjoyable.

Who are those who use PowerPoint, or where is PowerPoint used?
Any profession or occasion that is characterized by a speaker and a live audience is a place suited for PowerPoint programme use. Examples include research presentation/seminar (pre- or post-data as done in the institutions of higher learning), motivational speakers, programme launch, display, evaluation or commissioning (especially in the government, or national or international NGOs).

For example, in the academia, students (undergraduates, postgraduates), lecturers, professors, continually carry out research. Most research involve a target problem, it (the research) is meant to provide solution for, taking data, coming with results, and from results propound solution to the said problem(s). in my school for example, we did pre-data seminar (your proposal), and post data (your result and recommendation). The research follow almost the same procedure at all levels of learning, be it undergraduate, post graduate, doctorate, professorship, or whatever.

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Tips In Keeping People Interested On Your Webinar When You Present Your Pitch

When you are hosting a webinar, which means a live presentation, a lot of people tend to forget about the ending. They just care about what happens at the beginning and the middle part, but not the end. What people don’t know is that the end part of the presentation is the most important part of all, as the end allows you to get your audience to do something. If you are presenting a pitch, your aim should be to get people to buy the product from you. Regardless if you are just giving the audience a training that is for free, the end of the webinar should tell the audience what action they should take. The webinar pitch, that is either for training purposes or to get them to buy something, should guide them to what action they need to take next.

There are ways to know if your viewers will follow through on what they have seen. You can do this by giving them a pitch after the training session, in a way that is not pushy, in other words it should be a smooth transition between the two. Make sure the action they take, will only is from one offer you give them. Having a smooth transition means, that there shouldn’t be a pause in following what you have just discussed before leading into your pitch.

If you can pitch what you are selling to your customers in a seamless way, they may not even realize that you are pitching, and from there you will have their attention. When you transition you shouldn’t say goodbye before your pitch, you need to say it at the end.

People tend to get anxious about the pitch, and slip up and say their goodbyes and pause followed by the pitch. There is no need for it to be like that. The session should feel like it is an entire training session, even when you are pitching. It should give the audience the idea that you are helping them with a problem, because they have done this and to help solve this problem you should go here and this is why you need to go to this website.

What will help you with your pitch, is giving someone only one place where they need to go. Giving the audience too many suggestions on where they can get the information, leaves them confused and uninterested. Just getting the audience to go to one web address is difficult enough, without having them go to more than five. Pitch them where they should go next, following the training. This allows them to do the action right then and there.

These are the ways to keep people on the webinar, when you are pitching or on the final close: You need to create a seamless transition, and don’t say goodbye until the end of the kind of action you have given them to do.

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