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Process Segmentation
Determine the phase in the process the
audience needs to move to:
By Project Process: • Analyze, design,
develop, implement, evaluate
By Sales Cycle Process: • Awareness,
interest, desire, evaluation, action, loyalty
By Adoption Process: • Innovators, early
adopters, majority, laggards
IDEA LIFE CYCLE
Choose where you feel the bulk of the
audience is in your process. Make sure
you address their concerns so they
can get unstuck.
Determine Where They Need to Move to in a Process
Many presentations occur to move an audience from being stuck on a
project to being unstuck. Projects and processes reach critical junctures
where the team needs encouragement and prodding or the project could
miss the deadline or stagnate. Another way to determine the journey is
to assess the process and determine what phase they should be in (or
are stuck in) and prepare your messages to move them from the current
phase to the next phase. For example, you might want to move a client
along to the next step in the sales cycle, which means you might need to
move them from interest to evaluating your product. The graphic to the
right lists common processes. The graphic below shows a master idea life
cycle that you can use to get your idea unstuck.
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