Add power to your point with these 5 slide ideas

1. Logo animation: Your logo or brand is a critical part of your communication. So why put it in the corner of your slides? Your logo or brand should be displayed front and center at the start of your presentation and well animated to convey the essence of your brand. Your logo style and colors should then be reflected in the presentation template you are using. Take a look at these examples:

2. Problem and solution: from the outset you want to engage the audience by asking them a question. The question should stimulate the audience into thinking - yes why is that so - why does that happen - how can we solve that? Once the issue is defined - offer your solution. Here’s a great example of this. 

This client posed several of these types of questions at the start of the presentation and then revealed the answer - thus defining the need for their service!

3. Timeline: how long have you been doing what you're doing? What services do you offer & over what period have you been doing this? Audiences love to see a visual representation of the time you've invested in your solution. Timeline slides can be animated or interactive – touch a year on the timeline ribbon to go to that year. Here's a few examples:

4. Interaction: Presentations are getting shorter. Have you heard of the 10,20.30 rule of presenting? Average pitch decks are now just 10-15 slides so how can you get more interaction with your audience in the same time? Interactivity that’s how! Your presentation should have a buttons which link to different sections of your presentations – Below is an example of one presentation which has over 1800 slides! The client never presents them all just uses interaction as a way of presenting. And with the increase usage of touchscreen laptops this will make for a very interactive sales meeting. Also consider asking your audience what they want to talk about! Maybe even run a poll in Zoom ....

5. Infographics: Still using bullet points? Come on – be bulletproof! There’s enough bullets in the world and nothing says amateur than reading a screen full of bullets. We recommend replacing the bullets with infographics and if possible animating them – Here’s an example:

For a full playlist of different market sector presentation examples see here:

This list is by no means exhaustive but if more presenters added just some of these techniques to their presentations the world would be a lot less cluttered with death-by-PowerPoint and we’d have more alive audiences. Now that’s an idea worth spreading!