Paying for a professional PowerPoint designer to create your custom corporate PowerPoint template isn’t going to come cheap. In fact, it’s going to be downright expensive if you hire a talented designer. If your company is just starting out and you don’t necessarily want to invest in a professional custom template (even if you do […]
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10 Slide Design Best Practices for a Knockout Presentation. Number 9 is Impossible!
Your slides are a distraction from your presentation. They are either getting all your audience’s attention (in which case they’re not listening to you) or they are putting your audience to sleep. Think back to the bad business presentations you’ve attended. What made them bad? Most likely the presenter’s lack of preparation and knowledge, and […]
Nobody Gives a Crap About Your PowerPoint Template
A good indicator of how bad a presentation will be is how long the presenter takes to decide which PowerPoint/Keynote template to use. Firstly, there are no good templates. Second, a template is not going to “fix” your presentation or make your presentation better. The only thing that can improve your presentation is YOU. Deliver […]
Prezi is to Presenters What Boxing Gloves Are to Surgeons
Prezi is a presentation tool for amateurs. It is a tool used to cover for a bad presentation delivery. It’s the red sports car for the horny 16 year old. If you haven’t heard of Prezi before here’s the straight dope… An alternative to PowerPoint, Prezi is a visual storytelling tool which uses panning, zooming […]
Why Slide Design Isn’t Make or Break For Your Presentation
Does slide design matter? Yes. But not the way most people assume it does. Slide design matters somewhat. To enhance speeches that are already good. Slide design matters zero to enhance speeches that are crap. But, the books, the trainers, the designers, and the online courses want you to believe that if you don’t have […]
Why I Build My Slides Last
Murray Pearce couldn’t work out why it always ended in disaster. Every time he had a presentation to do he spent hours preparing. Every time it ended badly. After his extensive preparation and practice sessions, Murray was convinced his presentation would go well. But, the results were never good. During his preparation sessions Murray ticked […]