PowerPoint Articles

1). 10 Tips for a Successful Entrepreneurial Pitch By : TJ Walker
One of the hardest presentations to make is the entrepreneurial pitch. You have a great idea for a business and you want someone to give you money to make it happen. The problem is that venture capitalists, angel investors, and even rich uncles are heavily predisposed against you. Why? Because 99% of the pitches they hear sound like sure-fire prescriptions to lose money! If you are pitching investors to give you money for a new venture, you should subscribe to the following rules: 1.
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2). Five Truly Creative Ways to Train on the Cheap! By : Ryan Yee
If you're responsible for coming up with fast, interesting, and effective training for your company, here are some truly creative ways to spice things up. And surprise...they're CHEAP!
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3). Eulogy For A Good Book: PowerPoint and the Two Reasons You Need to Understand it By : Jonathan Steele
Good bye Moby Dick! Farewell Crime and Punishment! Adios National Geographic and Readers Digest! PowerPoint and the generation of the 7th Millennium rules. If you're a "Baby Boomer", PowerPoint will likely not appeal to you. Perhaps you will even feel it is evil. But I'll give you two good reasons you ought to understand and appreciate PowerPoint.
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4). Public Speaking: Use Visuals for Maximum Impact By : Lisa Braithwaite, M.A.
Have you ever attended a presentation where the speaker read directly from her/his PowerPoint slides? Did you wonder why they didn't just give you the handout and let you go home? PowerPoint and other visuals are tools to supplement your presentation; many presenters, however, hide behind their visuals as a way to avoid interacting with the audience.
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5). Design Better PowerPoint By : Kevin Potts
In my line of work, I find myself constantly producing PowerPoint presentations. Sometimes these are just individual slides (like a diagram or case study), sometimes they are templates, and sometimes they are whole, individual presentations. Most of my PowerPoint work is completed at my day job where I am an in-house designer, but my freelancing alter ego occasionally comes across a client needing some presentational pick-up.
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6). Better Typography and More Readable Text in PowerPoint By : Kevin Potts
PowerPoint is, fundamentally, a tool for communication, and the heart of that communication is written words. As many charts, videos and illustrations a presentation might have, without text these add up to little more than a collection of disjointed elements pasted between slide transitions. Words remain the glue that ties information together. Because of this, good typography is as important -- if not more so -- than any visual element in a presenter's PowerPoint file.
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7). Video And Meeting Presentation Tips For Newbies By : Brien Lee
I'm an A-V Geek, and for thirty years, I've sweated the big and small stuff as a producer of meetings, conferences, and sales rallies. During that time I have developed a checklist of five special "secrets� I use to insure that the meeting media will go right. Go right? You see, the customer has paid big bucks for the video or multimedia piece that will help the crowd shake off the cobwebs (or hangovers) and get focused on the goals, spirit and business of the meeting.
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8). Making Yourself Memorable: Create A Stunning Powerpoint Presentation By : Christina Greenway
Did you know that using a PowerPoint presentation can be one of the most effective ways to address a large group of people? With such a variety of learning styles, using a visual presentation allows you to reach a large group of people � particularly those who need to see it to believe it. What better way than to create a stunning PowerPoint presentation? Have the data, but lacking that polished finish? A good way to start is to look at templates to get an idea of which style suits you and your presentation.
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9). Translating Company Collateral to PowerPoint By : Kevin Potts
As a PowerPoint user, it is sometimes necessary to accurately translate a company's marketing collateral to slide format. Often, this information arrives in the format of a company brochure, or copied blurbs from the website, or a long Word document bogged down with New Age sales jargon and irrelevant "stuffer" copy. It is your job to find the needles of information in the haystacks of hype, to reduce lengthy paragraphs to mere phrases, to provide your audience with only the information they need to know.
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10). How to be a Great Speaker Without Using PowerPoint By : Tom Antion
RESEARCH YOUR AUDIENCE It amazes me how some speakers will show up for a speaking engagement and really not know anything about the audience they are speaking to. Many speakers just get lazy and feel that their message is so important that anyone would want to hear it. They couldn't be more wrong. Your core message may be about the same for everyone, but knowing your audience will allow you to slant the information so that the audience feels it was prepared just for them.
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11). Brand Reinforcement in PowerPoint By : Kevin Potts
The fundamental nature of PowerPoint makes it an ideal selling tool. You have a group of people, stuck in a room, listening to a speaker for an extended period of time -- anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour or more. This enclosed environment exists only for the presenters to sell something, whether it is a product, a service, or an idea. However, many presenters, especially those with a corporate interest in mind, fail to capitalize on that environment.
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12). The PowerPoint Dozen Dare By : Paul Johnson
Long PowerPoint presentations are sabotaging your sales. Learn an approach that will enable you to sell anything in twelve slides, or less.
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