Published in Show and Sell·Jun 22, 2020Stick is joining GoogleWe have an exciting update for you — — We have decided to move beyond this chapter of Stick so that we can embark on our next one. Our mission has always been to help you tell better visual stories through presentations. Today, I’m proud to share that I will be able to accelerate progress in achieving this vision by joining the team at Google. I am so proud of what we have built together over the past five years, and I look forward to this next chapter as part of G Suite’s product team as PM Lead for Google Slides.Startup1 min readStartup1 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Apr 29, 2020Announcing Stick 2.0Introducing a faster and more effective way to convert customers — Meet Stick 2.0, a modern presentation tool to help you build and deliver content that works. Over the past few years, our team has worked with over 1000+ B2B sales and marketing professionals to try to crack the “PowerPoint problem.” We’ve conducted thousands of customer interviews, built multiple products, and…Sales2 min readSales2 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Feb 14, 20199 Sales Presentation Tips That Great Salespeople Swear ByWhen it comes to sales presentations, most sales leaders guess at what’s working. How could they know? Everyone in the organization is working from a different sales presentation. Some reps aren’t even using one at all. And when the PDF is actually sent off to a prospect? …Sales12 min readSales12 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Oct 5, 2018We prototype products, so why not Presentations? 🔥Introducing Strike — a little tool to help you prototype your presentations — Building a deck is daunting. When you finally get going, you end up piling on slide after slide. But the more you add, the more the storyline gets lost. After spending hours, you have to start over, confused as to what you were trying to say in the first place…Presentations1 min readPresentations1 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Sep 20, 2018Discover your Brand’s Visual PersonalityWhile consumer companies obsess over their brand, too many B2B companies don’t give it the attention it deserves. But with more products than ever on the market, your brand matters. It’s how you break through the noise to even get the chance to talk about your product. …Marketing1 min readMarketing1 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Aug 31, 2018Great Content starts with Great QuestionsWhat makes PowerPoint content so difficult to create? Click to add title. What kind of inspiration is that? At Stick, we’ve been testing this concept and have found that blank slides often lead to blank minds. And blank minds lead to bland content. What if, instead, we started the presentations with conversations? …Sales1 min readSales1 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Aug 16, 2018You can say NO…Understanding the most powerful tool in your negotiation toolkit — Yesterday Emergence Capital brought together nearly 50 Female Founders for a Negotiation workshop led by the Pareto Group. Going into it, I thought the content would be review. After all, I should already know a fair share about it by now after taking multiple Negotiation classes in my MBA program…Negotiation3 min readNegotiation3 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Aug 10, 2018Audience first, not Author firstTo change your communication game, reframe your approach — Any time you’re delivering a presentation or communicating in a meeting, you’re dealing with 2 or 3 different types of communicators. At least. A quick glance at Myers Briggs Personality Types alone is dizzying, because the complexity and possibilities are overwhelming: It’s hard to please everyone, we think. So what…Psychology3 min readPsychology3 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Aug 2, 2018How good is your Sales Deck, really?Introducing a research-backed scorecard to understand how your Deck stacks up — Decks are everywhere. B2B Sales, Fundraising Pitches, All Hands Meetings, Consulting Proposals, and everywhere in between. Today, there are decks for just about everything. But they aren’t all good. So, what makes a good deck? In our research behind Stick.ai, we’ve looked at hundreds of decks, analyzing what works and…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published in Show and Sell·Jul 25, 2018What your Sales team can learn from ImprovSharing sales and startup lessons from comedy — A year ago, we loaded all of our belongings into a 15-foot U-Haul, miraculously parallel parked on Church Street in San Francisco. We were moving to Los Angeles. From those first moments on the 10, it was clear that LA wasn’t going to be anything like SF. Up there, billboards…Improv5 min readImprov5 min read
