How to Update Presentations & Gather Materials Effectively During Summer

Many of our clients report that July and August are slow times for them. These months tend to have less urgent projects running across the board, and since it’s a common time of year for staff to go on vacation, there aren’t typically many new projects added to the docket. Of course, this is also a time when there is low conference attendance, and fewer projects to attend to. For marketing folks, however, the end of summer is a time of opportunity. Summer’s end is a great time to bolster marketing efforts, update presentation resources, prepare and refresh marketing materials and prepare for a busy final quarter!

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Presenting Added Value in a Presentation [How to visualize a concept]

Creating a value of some kind is the essence of every business. It can have a form of a specific product manufactured by a production company or a service that provides an added value to our life. It can be also an abstract value such as know-how created by a consulting firm or wisdom taught by an educational institution.  However, I see that people are often are having hard times to illustrate such value in their marketing and sales presentations. How to express a general concept of “added business value” in your presentation?

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Evaluate Presentation Engagement with 4MAT!

Do You Have an Engaging Presentation?

The worst part of sitting through the presentations of others is being bored. It’s terrible when you want to give your focus to an instructor or team member, but the information they are presenting isn’t interesting or doesn’t seem useful. When you’re building your own presentations the worst part is worrying if it is interesting or engaging for your audience.
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Illustrating Strategy in a Presentation [concept visualization]

A strategy is a common topic I often see in company presentations of all kind. Typically those are business plans, board presentations or investor pitches. The strategy defines general actions over the course of several years. The challenge is how to quickly and neatly make a strategy illustration in your document? What image to choose?

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Slide management challenge – conversation with Katrik Sundar

Besides designing presentation slides, I often see another challenge – how to effectively manage presentations and slides such that they are organized and easily accessible.  I personally use many slide decks across my projects and customers. But they need to be well organized and updated often which is a very time-consuming task. How to do it?

Here’s a conversation I had with Katrik Sundar, founder of Teamslide and a specialist in the topic of presentation and slide management.

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Build an Engaging Presentation with Proper Structure Slides

Opening, body, and closing are obvious structure parts of the presentation. However, are you using these structure slides effectively? Each of these parts has its objective that you should clearly highlight also on your slides. How?
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Sales Funnel Graphics Are a Shortcut to Presentation Engagement

When presenting to your team or another department, it can be difficult to capture the attention of your audience. The struggle is often based in the need to make more engaging presentations, more so than a lack of interest or effort on the part of the presenter. We’ve found that explaining concepts such as sales funnel with graphics not only makes the presentation more visually engaging but helps to clarify what might otherwise be a difficult concept. Continue reading Sales Funnel Graphics Are a Shortcut to Presentation Engagement

Illustrating Supply Chain Presentation

The topic of Supply Chain is pretty complex – with all global or local logistics processes, ensuring just on time delivery and enough stocks in warehouses. Therefore using illustrations to explain it is really handy. Good news is that most SCM processes are easy to visualize. We gathered a few examples of how you can illustrate a supply chain presentation. Easily and quickly, using only PowerPoint tools.

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How to Get Creative Sketchnoting Presentation

Doodling on paper is a great way to get really creative. I recommend it as a way to start any presentation design process.
But how to move from paper to computer? I put down a few ideas a how you can get creative sketchnoting presentation slides.

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