PowerPointers
The art, science, and business of making quality presentations. Topics include:
- Reducing Clutter
- Font Tips
- The Psychology of Color
If you knew that spending just one additional hour to work on your PowerPoint presentation would help you win a $1M account, would you invest the time to make it shine? Everyone loves good visuals. Extraordinary visuals get noticed…and remembered. Presentation software has made it easier than ever to tell a story and communicate key concepts…but far too often people still saddle their slides with text-heavy bullet points, and flat boring backgrounds. The next time you’re called on to present, consider these 4 Tips on The Value of Extraordinary Visuals.
The presentation of presentations has evolved radically and rapidly. But the most exciting presentation products are on the horizon, as increased bandwidth, more powerful and compact technologies, and a more technically-savvy consumer merge to pave a path for clearer communications. Here are some emerging trends, technologies, and techniques in the presentation industry.
Apple's new iPad is the talk of the town. Marketing departments are snatching them up en-masse, adapting their corporate overview presentations and company videos for their sales teams to get a leg-up over the competition. Discover how this "magical and revolutionary device" may transform the presentation industry and sales market.
The simple story of how a community college president used dynamic and inspiring presentation visuals to win the support from a skeptical Board of Directors to build a new college campus.
Read the inside story of how environmental conference organizers transformed 22 separate PowerPoint to a unified look and feel. A quick and easy presentation makeover thanks to a template master and thoughtful planning.
Find out how one innovative insurance agent transformed her basic PowerPoint show into a captivating presentation that helped to make her shine at a big convention.
Discover the quick and simple solution that an executive at a large software company took to transform his PowerPoint presentation from boring to brilliant.
For most people, presentation development is more of an art than a science. They spend more time focused on the look and feel of the presentation and the details of each page, rather than the pure message and content. Here are some tips to help you look at presentation design as more of a science than an art, so you can put a "managed methodology" behind your work and work more effectively.
Read how motivational speaker Joe Mayne transformed his basic PowerPoint presentation into a dynamic masterpiece...quickly and affordably.
Discover how energy consulting firm Refined Solar transformed their bland and boring 32-page PowerPoint presentation into a focused cornerstone of corporate communications for prospective clients and business partners.
Read the story of how Trevor Franklin of TD Waterhouse created a focused but impactful presentation to support his 20-minute "Building Trust in Financial Services" keynote speech for a local business group.
Read how KM/Plaza's dynamic presentation helped win them a large construction contract...all thanks to clear and concise content, dynamic yet clean visuals, and powerful presentation coaching.
Next to graphics, type and fonts are the most effective way for communicating your message. Fonts add emotion and impact to your presentation. They also can create variety and help to keep the attention of your audience. Here are 10 tips for using fonts in your next presentation.
Discover the secrets to how The Presentation Team transformed a boring and basic PowerPoint for Mona Vie into a high-impact presentation to showcase the power drink's beverages and business potential.
Discover how Cox Communications helped convey the true value of person-to-person customer service with a fun and dynamic PowerPoint presentation.
We remember graphics more readily than text, so work to find a graphic from a stock photo collection or a scanned photo that will support the bullet and make it come alive with graphics.
Third-person testimonials can go a long way in making your point in a presentation. But rather than just typing the text of the testimonial, scan their letter, or have them say it on video.
We all know it: Animation makes a presentation more memorable. So spend the time to put some movement into your presentation…and take note of how many more people remember it. Here are some ideas...More Articles...
- Reduce clutter: Consolidate your text
- Alternate colors on table rows to improve visibility
- Reduce clutter: Group bullets and objects into shapes
- Text and Graphics shouldn't compete for attention
- Reduce monotony & increase attention with full-screen images
- Simplify diagrams with graphics or handouts
- Use images to reinforce numeric data
- Use a professional template
- Content First, Then Visuals
- Reduce clutter: Span bullet points across multiple pages
