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Wouldn\u2019t it be great if every single person who attends your presentation<\/span> gets excited at your speech and stays tuned until the end, focusing on you the entire time? Have you seen any presentation hook examples that really got you involved in the presentation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As presenters, the problem is that we always lack presentation<\/span> hook ideas<\/strong> to start the presentation<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to catch the attention of your audience<\/span><\/strong>, however, you must really hook your audience<\/span> from the very beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that you normally lose 90% of your audience<\/span> within the first 5 minutes of your presentation<\/span>? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you get 60 minutes to present, you do not get 60 minutes worth of attention. In fact, the typical attention span in an hour-long meeting goes something like this (Source: Sequoia Capital<\/span>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your hook is often the difference between a successful effective presentation<\/span><\/a> and a very boring one. Think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t grab your audience right away<\/strong>, you\u2019ll lose them forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You went through all that work of preparing a killer presentation<\/span>, right? You worked hard at it. You did a ton of research and you spent a lot of time carefully taking care of every single slide<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the truth is that if your introduction sucks, your efforts will be for nothing. Well done, my friend, you lost before you even got started! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to spread your presentation<\/span> hook ideas so that they resonate with your audience<\/span>, you need to conquer them from the very first moment you talk to them. How to hook the audience<\/span>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me show you how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attention Getters for Speeches and Presentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you Google the topic “Presentation<\/span> hook ideas<\/strong>“, you\u2019ll find plenty of public speakers and pitch experts who will give you their top 5, top 10, top (x) advice points on how to create the perfect hook persuading the audience<\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have identified commonalities and summarized the most impactful, shared and successful presentation<\/span> hook ideas<\/strong> coming from the top experts below and I’ve enriched them with real life dedicated examples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you’ll find a long list of presentation<\/span> hook examples with a whole bunch of ready to use ideas to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to Start a Presentation: Attention Getters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pre-hook: interact with the speakers first<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you speak at a conference, it’s very rare that you are alone. There might be other speakers like you, and you might not be the first one to talk. I like not being the first speaker, as this allows me to listen to the others carefully and improve on my own presentation<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If somebody speaks before you, it\u2019s always a good strategy<\/span> to connect your intervention to their speech<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time I\u2019m invited to give a speech at a conference, I always request to join from the beginning, even though I\u2019m not the first speaker. By doing so, I can listen to the other speakers, take notes<\/a> and prepare my hook<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By connecting your intervention to the others, you show respect to the other speakers<\/strong> and you demonstrate that you have been an active listener<\/strong> while you were in the audience<\/span>; you’ll give a good example on how you expect your audience<\/span> to behave during a speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, you create a connection that contextualizes your intervention into the flow of the conference and you turn the separated speeches into a dialogue <\/strong>that you trigger by commenting on the other speeches. By creating a dialogue atmosphere, the audience<\/span> will wake up from the previous speech and connect with you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you are ready for your hook!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Make a Good Hook: Presentation Hook Examples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s take a look at the top 13 presentation<\/span> hook ideas you can use to start your presentation<\/span> and focus your audience<\/span>‘s attention on your message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Storytelling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Starting with a story is one of the oldest and most powerful methods<\/strong> of introducing your presentation<\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storytelling<\/span> is a good hook for  a speech because it shows you are human and shows you have feelings, emotions and reason. It is even more powerful if you start with a personal story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience<\/span> will feel close to you and will trust you.<\/strong> If you earn their trust, you\u2019ll get their attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally when you start talking, people are tired from the other speeches, and their attention level is not ready for your core message or your call to action. You will need to start slowly <\/strong>and take them in gradually. A story is common to everybody, and it\u2019s easy to follow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most cases, it\u2019s very effective to start with a story. You don\u2019t really need to introduce yourself at the beginning. Your introduction can be postponed to when the audience<\/span> will be really listening to you<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you start telling them why you’re good, you\u2019ll immediately build distance from the audience<\/span>, you won\u2019t be perceived as one of them, so it will be harder for the audience<\/span> to connect with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychologist Shawn Achor explains that the happy secret to better work starts straight away with a funny personal story<\/strong> about his childhood and keeps going until 2 minutes fifty, until the audience sympathizes with him, and so gives the audience<\/span> his message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shawn shoots the message when he is sure that he has 100% of the audience<\/span>‘s attention<\/strong>, not before. He only gives information about his prestigious background (“When I applied to Harvard [\u2026]”) at 6:32, after he has passed the core message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, he feels normal and empathetic to the audience<\/span> when he shares the feeling of being an average guy surrounded by smarter guys, in such a great university. Therefore, he makes sure that his background does not bring him away from the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n