Enthusiasm in your presentations

The first order of a presentation is to translate your enthusiasm and passion for whatever you are presenting to those to whom you are presenting. 

This is a tall enough order when you are standing in the room with them but is even more difficult when you are on the phone presenting sometimes to multiple people.  When you are presenting in a webinar, you are presenting over the phone and sometimes to a group of people in a large room listening to you on a tiny little speaker phone.  Not exactly ideal circumstances. 

So what to do.

Talk Loud. Louder than you think you should.

Pretend that you are talking to someone across the room about 10 feet away not to someone right next to you. Project your voice and enunciate.

Also, I listen to music before a presentation to get myself in an upbeat mood that can carry through the presentation.

Finally, to reiterate a previous post, make sure that you ask questions throughout the presentation not just at regulary scheduled breaks or at the end.  This keeps people engaged and listening to you.