The CEO of SlideGenius is Rick Enrico who stated that they are big fans of the extensive platform capabilities and expansive features of Slideboom. This was the reason why Slideboom became the ideal solution provider for them. The Power Point presentation which SlideGenius has created for their client MatrixMT got them in to the Slideboom contest. That presentation was about best of breed SEO marketing services and the animation flow. The power point for SlideGenius, which won the third place, was designed and developed by Richmond Pagaduan, the lead designer, who has been using Power Point for about 2 years.

Headquartered in San Diego, SlideGenius designs and creates Microsoft Power Point solutions for small to mid – sized to large companies who want to improve their presentation, marketing efficiency and sales results. SlideGenius is a 100% subsidiary of Twenty6 Red, which includes firms like ScreenWorks Media, Jubaloo Mobile, Infopia Marketing and Twenty6 Red Media. The web site of this subsidiary is called http://www.slidegenius.com/.

The “Slideboom Presentation Contest” was held from May 18^th, 2009 – June 21^st, 2009. The participants submitted PowerPoint presentations on Career, Education, Business and other subjects. This contest is a launching pad for small and mid – sized companies to show case their creative potential. SlideGenius was one among them and won  3^rd place.

The SlideGenius team has over twenty five years of experience in providing appealing power point presentations for several clients. The specialists at SlideGenius understand that making a good first impression is the key to getting the business deal. Therefore, the experts at SlideGenius will spend quality time and effort in creating a highly engaging and attractive presentation to create the maximum impact. This will reduce the weight on the speakers shoulder by a big extent. If you need a professional Power Point presentation in a very short period of time, then SlideGenius will be able to create it for you before your deadline.

The services provided by SlideGenius are:

Presentation creation

Customization of branded template

Power Point Animation

Video and audio file integration

Custom designs

Pdf, print friendly, locked presentation and original versions are available

Presentation consultation

The power point creation team at SlideGenius are highly experienced and create presentations that contain video files, sound tracks and are interactive. The video files can explain the products by displaying it on the screen, the sound tracks can explain the important features and making the session interactive will arouse the interest of the audiences.

A good PowerPoint presentation will impress your business partners and clients and get you the deal whereas a bad one will not only cost you the deal but may also put your job in jeopardy. Therefore, the expert team at SlideGenius will help you to create a PowerPoint presentation that will impress every body sitting in the room.

There are several great ways to use Microsoft PowerPoint. You can make displays, videos, sounds and even animations. PowerPoint animation utilizes custom animation, slides and drawing tools to create your own games and even movies. It can be used to make your business presentation more effective and interesting.

Custom Animation is a sequence of effects which is applied to one or more objects in the PowerPoint so that the slide show is animated. These functionalities come under “Custom Animation”. It can also be done by using “Visual Basic for Applications” or VBA. The experts at SlideGenius will use the best of this technology to make an animated slide show for you according to your needs. We also use another feature called “Animation Trigger”. This creates objects that will get triggered when they are clicked.

At SlideGenius we make your PowerPoint very effective by integrating video and audio in to it. Video files are available in several formats. However, only 3 of them work well with PowerPoint:

MPG

WMV

AVI

If you give us the video and audio files we will integrate it in to your PowerPoint presentation in key places so that your audiences will be highly impressed.

At SlideGenius we also offer power point consultation services. PowerPoint presentation is a major form of marketing your product, today. If it is not done properly then you will not only fail to attract customers but also repel your customers, in worst cases. Therefore, at SlideGenius we have a professional team which will help you create the prefect PowerPoint presentation that will hit the mark.

“Call to Action” phrases will capture a quick response, only if embedded in the right slides. Some examples could be:

Offer Expires on 10/11/08

2 weeks only!!

Call now!

Free consultation – First 10 customers only

Limited Availability

Such phrases if inserted at the right places will attract a large number of people. Our expert team will decide which calls to action are suitable for your business and insert them in the right places.

For more information about updating your company’s PowerPoint presentation, please contact us

today at 888-712-0084.

Our experts at SlideGenius.com look in to every aspect and make your presentation very convincing and to the point. We make sure that you leave the right impression with the client so that you can get the deal.

One thing that can make your presentation more interesting is “Background Pictures”. By including pictures to represent the content of your presentation, you will make a better and stronger impression. Though the right picture at the right place will create a better impression, the wrong picture will be devastating. Your potential client will get confused and therefore your presentation will not get you the business deal. You need to carefully consider the size and type of your pictures and the color of the fonts used for text. The background color is extremely important to attract the attention of the audience. The font size and color should be readable when used with the background image. Don’t use colors which make it difficult for your audiences to read because your audience will not put in any extra effort to read your presentation.

We at SlideGenius.com will take care of all these aspects when our experts create the presentation for you. The images provided by you will be strategically set in the right places using the right colors.

One way to make your presentation look and feel better is by using a template. It will set a good atmosphere for the people reading your presentation. Our experts will use the right template to make the environment right for you to give the PowerPoint presentation. If you are not happy will the preset templates, then our experts will custom design a template that is suitable for your business. By choosing the right type of template you will be able to create a good first impression which will give you a step forward in the business deal.

Given below are some points to create an effective PowerPoint presentation which is followed by our experts.

Keeping it Simple

A simple PowerPoint design which explains the important points, well is a better presentation than one that contains a whole lot of graphics. In fact, your audience will get bored if you make your PowerPoint presentation complex.

“Sea of Text” Syndrome

Pictures speak louder than words. Therefore, including pictures at the right places will make your PowerPoint presentation effective.

Easy to Read Captions and Titles

When text is used, you should use it correctly. Use simple titles and captions so that your audiences don’t get startled.

Take a look at our portfolio of recent projects. Contact SlideGenius today for a quote.

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.

PowerPoint is the latest technology that is being used in the business world to drive sales by explaining their services and products to their prospective clients using it to present slideshows. With PowerPoint a multi – dimensional sales pitch can be created and then, duplicated and sent to several locations where it can be explained to prospective clients by good speakers. These professional PowerPoint presentations can also be emailed to your clients or can be integrated with your web site, if your company owns one, for all visitors to see. Putting static text is not even 10% as effective as a PowerPoint presentation that contains carefully designed presentation of sounds, images and animation.

Most businesses that don’t use a professional PowerPoint presentation don’t realize its power to convey information. Professionally made PowerPoint presentations will have all the things such as a premium design, pictures, text and so on, in the right place to produce a strong impact. Professional PowerPoint presentations may be automated and they will contain Excel and Word components, interactive controls, embedded sounds and special effects to make your presentation more appealing to the audience.

Three characteristics of a Professional PowerPoint presentation are:

Video Files – Used to increase sales and revenue, by visually enticing the potential buyer. To make this possible the professional PowerPoint presentation will contain flash, MPEG, WMV or QuickTime video files. These will be inserted in key places throughout the presentation.

Sound Track – Sound is important to motivate your potential clients to purchase from you. Professional PowerPoint presentations will have embedded sound tracks that will be played at the right times. They may also have a sales dialogue embedded in them as this is more effective than text because readers may miss some important points visually, but pick them up through means of audio.

Interactive Experience – Professional PowerPoint presentations make the seminar interactive which is more productive and increases the sales of your product.

A PowerPoint presentation created by a novice is extremely boring and misses the important points. But, a Professional PowerPoint presentation will be exciting and interesting. The audience will be drawn to you from the time of displaying the first slide till the time you say “Thank You”.

Our expert team at SlideGenius will ensure that your presentation is exciting, motivating, interesting and interactive. It will contain video files, sound tracks and many more components that don’t allow the audience to take their eyes and ears off you.

Contact SlideGenius today to get a quote for a new PowerPoint presentation for your company.

By Carmine Gallo

Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look like a rank amateur, here are 15 surefire tips to guarantee that you leave a really, really bad impression.

1. Misspell words. Failing to check the spelling on your slides shows a complete lack of care. If you don’t care enough to proof your presentation, your audience will care less about you and your message. It’s the easiest way to look unprofessional.

2. Create distracting color combinations. Blue on green is especially hard to read.

3. Use inconsistent fonts. Professional PowerPoint designers will use no more than two, perhaps three, font styles in an entire presentation. But why stop there? There are thousands of typefaces available. See how many you can incorporate into your slide show.

4. Use a really small font size. If you really want to drive people crazy, say something like this: “I know you can’t read this, but if you could, here is what it would say…”

5. Insert improperly sized photos that are stretched to fit the slide. Images used in PowerPoint slides should be at least 900 pixels wide by 720 high. Designers start with larger images and shrink them to fit the slide. If you really want to look bad, however, find much smaller thumbnail images, say 200 x 300 pixels, and simply stretch them to fit the slide. They will look blurry, cheap, and bush-league.

6. Look completely and totally disinterested. I attended a conference in which the keynote speaker hadn’t even bothered to create a presentation and had a few handwritten notes in front of him. That’s fine, if you can pull it off. This speaker could not. He shuffled through his notes, lost his place several times, and twice asked the organizer, “How much time do I have?” The people in the audience—influential venture capitalists—found this so appalling that they started looking at each other and laughing.

7. Look disheveled. If you really want to leave a bad impression, wear faded blue jeans, worn, dirty shoes, and a stained shirt.

8. Read every word of each slide. Better yet, turn your back to the audience and read your slides word for word.

9. Don’t bother with a backup plan. If you need a live Internet connection to demo a site, don’t bother making a screen shot of the site in case the connection doesn’t work. That way, you’ll be at a complete loss for words when the connection fails.

10. Don’t practice. At all. Practicing a presentation out loud takes work and will make you look far too polished. Just wing it.

11. Call attention to your mistakes. If you want to show a complete lack of preparation, say something like “Oops, I have no idea how that slide got in there.”

12. Open with an offensive or off-color joke. Half your audience will walk out immediately and you’ll have succeeded in making a really bad impression right out of the gate.

13. Use wild animations. Letting text simply fade into a slide is way too straightforward. Especially when PowerPoint offers you the bounce, the boomerang, and the dreaded “neutron,” which makes letters circle wildly. All are effective at giving your audience a headache.

14. Use cartoon clip art. Why spend $3 on high-resolution photos from a stock photography service such as iStockphoto when there are plenty of cheap-looking and free cartoons that will make your presentation look like a sixth-grade project?

15. Use ancient presentation software. PowerPoint 2003 served its purpose (I used it for years). But there’s no comparison with PowerPoint 2007, which is simply a better, more robust tool. Says Darla Wigginton, an expert PowerPoint designer and creative director at eVision Design in San Francisco, “When [PowerPoint] 2007 came out, it scared the design world because the average user could now create some impressive-looking work.” Why scare professional designers? Stick to older versions of the software and leave the slicker presentations to others.

I hope you find some of these tips memorable enough to avoid them at all costs. But make no mistake, these presentation “techniques” are alive, well, and thriving. Just when I think I’ve seen or heard it all, someone has one more observation to add to the list. Feel free to use the comments section below to add your own experiences. We look forward to hearing from you.

Carmine Gallo is the communication skills coach for the world’s most admired brands. He is a popular speaker and the author of several books including Fire Them Up! His upcoming title, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, will be published by McGraw-Hill in October. More of Gallo’s columns are available in his ongoing series.

Carmine Gallo is the communication skills coach for the world’s most admired brands. He is a popular speaker and the author of several books including Fire Them Up! His upcoming title, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, will be published by McGraw-Hill in October. More of Gallo’s columns are available in his ongoing series.

This is the PowerPoint age and majority of presentations use this platform to put across certain subject matters in form of a presentation. Many companies and individual entrepreneurs may not have established the power of effective presentations and SlideGenius greatly advocates the use of the services to stimulate sales. According to their research, a number of enterprises have already registered up to a 25 percent increase in sales just by having an effective presentation. Anderson Consulting did a survey that indicated that most sales people indicated that their lack of sufficient PowerPoint skills had contributed to fewer sales than they are capable of.

A SlideGenius supported PowerPoint presentation is able to greatly improve a company’s reputation thus, boosting the confidence that customers have in an enterprise.  Sales leads can further be increased which in turn raises the volume of sales. Business people and other corporate entities need to recognize that passing the right message across is one of the most important steps in reaching the intended objectives. With the amount of work that SlideGenius has done so far, they have amassed great experience in producing individual slides or full presentations and the intellectual property from the client is never published. The end result that is produced by SlideGenius is able to appropriately fit a company’s profile in addition to making sure that the message being put across is fitting.

A major advantage with SlideGenius is that for them to begin any work for a client the appropriate staff will have to carry out a consultation to know the nature of the presentation to be formulated. Furthermore, this consultation is free of charge. SlideGenius as an entity is always putting in sufficient effort to advance the trade and recently they enhanced their service by integrating BringIt technology which will improve the appearance of presentations. The technology blends PowerPoint messaging and online video streaming technology. The resultant product is an optimized PowerPoint messaging platform that enhances the presentation experience.

SlideGenius has received plenty of accolades as a result of its superior performance and the latest one was the Slideboom presentation contest where it received a bronze medal for the PowerPoint design competition. As a result of all the good work done by SlideGenius the service has been used by many corporations to help in the improvement of their presentations, marketing drives and sales pitches. The positive response from clients is a testament of a superior service.

When PowerPoint is used properly, it will definitely result in increased revenues for an individual or a firm. This is because if the potential clients are suitably impressed by the presentation, they would definitely want to invest in or purchase what was being presented. PowerPoint has a variety of design templates which when used adequately can really boost the sales or earnings of an individual and company in general. A presentation using PowerPoint templates should not only be interesting but it should also be engaging in that whoever is viewing the presentation will not quickly lose interest. A good PowerPoint presentation should also be one that is not too technical and can easily be understood.

There are several ways that an individual can make their PowerPoint presentation as professional as possible. This not only involves getting rid of unnecessary details but also ensuring that the information is maintained and understood the way the presenter intended it to be understood. One of these ways is to first ensure that the theme that one is using is cleared off all royalty fees and restrictions. This is especially the case for themes that have been downloaded form certain sites. Adequate research should be carried out before an individual makes a presentation using a downloaded theme only for them to be caught in legal battles later.

Once the matter of the legality of the theme has been cleared, you can now go about designing the presentation in the best way you can. When doing this, there are certain things that should be avoided and top on this list is bullet overload. Many people use bullets in an effort to shorten the message yet maintain the intended message. A user does not need to use a bullet for every point that they want to put across. In any one slide, a maximum of three bullets would be adequate in conveying a message. The phrases captured in these bullets should be short but should capture the message. The presenter can then expound on the issue highlighted in the phrase.

Another thing to avoid when making a professional PowerPoint presentation is the whistles and bells. While this might be appropriate when educating children so that they do not lose concentration, it is highly unsuitable for professional presentations. In line with the whistles and bells are flying texts and certain slide effects that would distract the audience from the message. When such effects are used, most people would generally assume that the presenter was not well prepared and they are hoping to impress the audience with such antics rather than expose their lack of preparation. The templates that are being used should also be minimized to avoid distracting the audience further.

It is important to note that it is not a must to use slides for every aspect of the presentation. There is information that is well received when one opts to discuss it with the audience rather than include it in the presentation. As much as text or images are effective in conveying certain messages it is not advisable to use too much of any one of these. Using too much text tends to be boring while using too many images will tire out the audience as they try to figure out what all those images represent. All in all, it is advisable to learn the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint before going for a presentation to avoid embarrassing situations when something fails to work out. Excellent PowerPoint presentations will definitely make you good revenue.  http://www.slidegenius.com

As much as text, images and videos can be arranged in any preferred manner, PowerPoint utilizes the use of the ‘Slide Master’ to provide a consistent presentation. The presentation made on PowerPoint can then be viewed on a computer, printed or display using a projector for large audiences. The main movements in PowerPoint are entrance, emphasis, exit, transitions and custom animation. Movements such as entrance, exit and emphasis on a slide are controlled by Custom Animations. The general presentation design could be controlled through the use of a master slide while the general structure could be edited by the use of an outliner.

Depending on what a presentation is about one could choose from an array of themes that come with the PowerPoint program or download one from the internet. These themes are usually used for the background of the presentation. When an individual chooses to download a theme from the Internet they need to be aware of any royalty restrictions or fees that could be attached to these themes to avoid any legal complications. PowerPoint presentations have been known to utilize many bullet points. This is because Microsoft PowerPoint usually has a default layout which automatically creates bullet points on a new slide.

The bullet point layout is not the only layout available on PowerPoint and there are several other layouts that one could experiment with to find out which one best suit their presentation needs. These layouts basically present a canvas on which one can place practically anything they want so as long as it relevant to what they want to present. A user could get ideas on what to place on their layouts from virtually anywhere including billboards and magazines. This does not mean that one should copy an advert in its entirety to use on their layouts but rather that they should use the qualities that they found attractive in the advert for their layout.

Some of the common rules when it comes to designing on PowerPoint include the one that bullet points should not be excessively used. Another rule is to use colors that are in contrast to the background. The text used on the slides should be legible to everyone who is expected to be in the audience. If the presentation is professional, animations should be kept to a minimal and layouts should not be unnecessarily cluttered. Finally, all presentations should be interesting and engaging if one is to make sales, secure an account or pass some important information adequately. As with all things, perfection comes with practice, therefore, for users to be professionals at designing PowerPoint presentations, they must put in a good amount of time and effort in perfecting their use of PowerPoint.

PowerPoint presentations comprise various slides or individual pages. The analogy of the slide is in reference to a slide projector which is presently an obsolete device because of the usage of various presentation software but more so PowerPoint. Slides may possibly contain movies, graphics and various objects which may possibly be freely arranged on it. However, PowerPoint facilitates the usage of consistent presentation style using a Slide Master or a template. Presentations may be printed, navigated at the presenter’s command or displayed live on a computer. For relatively large audiences, a video projector is commonly used to project the display of the computer. Slides can additionally be used to form the webcast’s basis.

There are three sorts of movements that PowerPoint provides: on the slide, the entrance, exit and emphasis of elements is controlled by Custom Animations; movements amid the slides are referred to as transitions and are animated in various ways; custom animations may be used for creating minor story boards through the animation of pictures to move, exit or enter. Speech bubbles comprising edited text may be sent off or on in a bid of creating speech using callouts. A presentation’s overall design may be controlled using a master slide, while the general structure which extends to each slide’s text may be edited with the primitive outliner.

The ease with which the presentation software is used is capable of saving time unlike when other visual aid forms are used. Such forms of visual aids include mechanically typeset or hand-drawn slides, overhead projections and whiteboards or blackboards. Due to the use of this software as the style for PowerPoint presentations, the abilities for multimedia and animation have become relatively more sophisticated. The application has generally eased the production of presentations while the desires and needs of audiences and presenters have grown to be more noticeable. PowerPoint’s popularity in the creation of presentations for slide shows is attributed to its ability of organizing thoughts for lessons or meetings, for attractively presenting key points in live presentations and creating handouts as well.

Despite PowerPoint files being used in live presentations, the web is where they are most commonly used. Teachers may for instance use them in the organization of lesson plans or they may be used in online conference events as a link to files used in workshops and keynotes. Unfortunately, the accessibility of PowerPoint files cannot match that of HTML. Although there is a means of improving this accessibility, the PowerPoint presentation can only become truly accessible by creating an alternative HTML in addition to or instead of the PowerPoint file. Users with disabilities or other needs might probably be capable of accessing the initial PowerPoint so long as the appropriate plug-in or program is present. PowerPoint is indeed a great application that has transformed the world of making presentations.