If you need to make a business presentation you may find these useful hints and tips could make your next presentation fly. 

Why are you presenting? 

The is the first thing that you will reed to ask yourself. Why are you presenting? Is there on important message to give or are you simply making up numbers? Are you looking to raise your personal profile or are you standing __(1)__ for someone who has dropped out? 

Your competitive advantage

We have sat through thousands of business presentations - and many can he quite boring affairs. The one common factor that we see a lot is bullet points. These are a very ineffective way of communicating. If there is only one piece of advice that you could follow from us, it would be to use pictures rather than bullet points. Business research shows that the chances of  __(2)__ your objectives increase from around 33% up to around 66%. And that is a major competitive advantage. 

Rehearsing

This is an absolute __(3)__ . You may be quick-witted and like to ad lib, but I'll tell you one thing. Learn your speech word for word and you wil be able to ad lib better! 

Dressing up as a baseball player won't get you into the owner's box at Oriole Park at Camden Yards any more than wearing a general's uniform will gain you admission to the White House. So the fact that the Transportation Security Administration has lost track of more than 3,700 uniforms and security badges over the past five years isn't necessarily a grave security great to the nation. But it's not exactly inspiring confidence in the TSA or the Department of Homeland Security __(1)__

Agency __(2)__ are quick to point out that the TSA uniform and an ID card by themselves won't get anyone into sensitive areas of an airport. Gaining access to the checked baggage areas, for instance, requires a different badge altogether. And because TSA security staff work in teams, an unfamiliar face is likely to be recognized quickly. 

If travelers are left __(3)__ TSA's competence and judgment, the agency's plan to sell advertising on the trays that are used at security checkpoints could provide the final straw. Clearly, somebody must have decided that weary travelers aren't put upon enough while waiting for the metal detectors and X-ray machines. Now, propriety can be assaulted, too. 

The TUC is committed to supporting people around the world in their struggle to achieve decent healthcare. educetion, employment, freedom __(1)__ persecution and discrimination and the right to have a say in how they are governed. These development issues are an integral and historic part al the trade union movement's commitment to global solidarity.  

The TUC's development work is divided into three areas 

The TUC lobbies end campaigns for broad development issues like more and better aid for developing countries or the cancellation of debt Much of this work is done in __(2)__ with other organizations such as international trade union bodies or non-governmental organizations. 

The TUGS charity - the Global Solidarity Fund - enables British trade unionists to support workers around the world who face __(3)__ or experience life-threatening disasters. 

Participants in the stock market range from small individual stock investors to large hedge fund traders, who can be based anywhere. Their orders usually end up with a professional at a stock exchange, who __(1)__ the order. 

Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor, by method __(2)__ open outcry. This type of auction is used in stock exchanges and commodity exchanges where traders may enter "verbal" bids and offers simultaneously. 

Actual trades are based on an auction market paradigm where a potential buyer bids a specific price for a stock and a potential seller asks a specific price for the stock. When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place on a first __(3)__ first served basis, if there are multiple bidders or askers at a given price.