PowerPoint presentations and business conferences will be successful only if the presenters or the host can convey their messages effectively. Powerful “PowerPoint Design Templates” will make your presentation effective even before you start talking. When you design the right way, your audience which includes your business partners and clients, will never let their thoughts fly to other things. Sometimes your clients would have attended several PowerPoint presentations prior to coming to see yours. In such cases, though your presentation’s content is impressive, the clients and the business partners will not be interested in listening to you because the PowerPoint Design has made the environment less interesting for your audience. Now, you should have a clear idea as to how important the design and message of your PowerPoint presentation is.

The experts at SlideGenius.com will use powerful designs for your presentation. The design will be custom designed to suit your company’s needs. Therefore, you can now breathe easy and concentrate on how you will speak in your presentation by leaving the design issues to us.

The PowerPoint design of your presentation should represent the content and purpose of this presentation. For example, if you are giving a PowerPoint presentation relating to the medical profession, then you have to choose a design with a calming and professional theme, probably utilizing proper white space. This will attract the attention of the audience even before you say a word. You also have to consider how your design will look at the place of the seminar. If you give a presentation that is packed with useful details and a good design then you can be rest assured that your message will be clearly understood by the audience in the most effective manner.

You can let the experts at SlideGenius.com handle this for you and you can concentrate on getting the useful information which you would like to deliver at the seminar or presentation. Our experts will also take care of the legal issues related to using the PowerPoint design templates. You should be aware that most good designs are not available for free. Therefore, you will save yourself a lot of time and money sorting out these issues.

To make an effective design some points or rules should be kept in mind.

The slides must not be cluttered with bullet points.

Use graphic colors and text which are contrasting with the background.

Make sure that the text is big enough so that people sitting in the last row can also read it.

Don’t overuse animations.

The transitions between slides should be logical.

The design should be balanced, uncluttered with enough white space for aesthetic composition.

Use graphics instead of bullet points to transmit information clearly.

The slides should be designed in a pleasing manner.

The text on each slide should be readable by all.

Well designed presentations prove the fact that you respect your audience.

The experts at SlideGenius.com will ensure all the points given above while designing a PowerPoint Presentation for you.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. The symptoms of Ménière’s include hearing loss, tinnitus (a constant ringing sound), and vertigo. There are many medical theories about its cause: too much salt, caffeine, or alcohol in one’s diet, too much stress, and allergies. Thus, I’ve worked to limit control all these factors.

However, I have another theory. As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. Most of these pitches are crap: sixty slides about a “patent pending,” “first mover advantage,” “all we have to do is get 1% of the people in China to buy our product” startup. These pitches are so lousy that I’m losing my hearing, there’s a constant ringing in my ear, and every once in while the world starts spinning.

To prevent an epidemic of Ménière’s in the venture capital community, I am evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc.

Ten slides. Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal human being cannot comprehend more than ten concepts in a meeting—and venture capitalists are very normal. (The only difference between you and venture capitalist is that he is getting paid to gamble with someone else’s money). If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business. The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:
Problem
Your solution
Business model
Underlying magic/technology
Marketing and sales
Competition
Team
Projections and milestones
Status and timeline
Summary and call to action

Twenty minutes. You should give your ten slides in twenty minutes. Sure, you have an hour time slot, but you’re using a Windows laptop, so it will take forty minutes to make it work with the projector. Even if setup goes perfectly, people will arrive late and have to leave early. In a perfect world, you give your pitch in twenty minutes, and you have forty minutes left for discussion.

Thirty-point font. The majority of the presentations that I see have text in a ten point font. As much text as possible is jammed into the slide, and then the presenter reads it. However, as soon as the audience figures out that you’re reading the text, it reads ahead of you because it can read faster than you can speak. The result is that you and the audience are out of synch.

The reason people use a small font is twofold: first, that they don’t know their material well enough; second, they think that more text is more convincing. Total bozosity. Force yourself to use no font smaller than thirty points. I guarantee it will make your presentations better because it requires you to find the most salient points and to know how to explain them well. If “thirty points,” is too dogmatic, the I offer you an algorithm: find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That’s your optimal font size.

So please observe the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.

Read more: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html#ixzz1gRNYDBcw