Tips for Awesome Business Presentations
Tips for Awesome Business Presentations Using Professional Powerpoint Templates
If you want to enhance the impact of a business presentation then creating a Powerpoint presentation using the best Powerpoint templates available is a great way to do so. This way you give your audience something to look at, thus preventing their gaze and their minds from wandering. You put much of what you will be saying in writing so that they won’t miss it and so that they have a chance to write it down.
Meanwhile, there are many things that you can communicate through images – such as line graphs and pie charts – that wouldn’t be half as punchy if you described them. Instapoint V1 and V2 are great at this! To get the most from your slides though, the slides themselves need to be well thought out and designed. That’s where the professional Microsoft Powerpoint templates from InstaPoint come in. Otherwise they can have the opposite effect and end up actually distracting from what you’re saying and losing your credibility.
Here we will look at some tips to help ensure your slides are working for you rather than against you in creating awesome business presentations.
Be Consistent
The first thing you should do when creating your Powerpoint slides is to come up with a look you want to work with and then to maintain that consistently throughout the presentation. This will make your slides look much more well thought out and professional rather than looking erratic or like a child created them. Instapoint Powerpoint templates takes care of this and gives you 10 color schemes in both dark and light versions. Color schemes are, of course, fully customizable.
Make Them Clear
Of course it’s also very important that your audience be able to read the slides, so you should ensure you are using high contrast colours for your text and background. Powerpoint templates from InstaPoint V1 & InstaPoint V2) takes care of this for you “out of the box”. You should also use a relatively plain font with a large size to keep things as clear as possible.
Things to Avoid
There are a number of things you should avoid in your slides if you want to make them look professional. The first is funky fonts so avoid trying to make a slide ‘scary’ by using a jagged font. Again, that’s something you do when you’re ten, not when you’re in a business meeting.
Likewise you should avoid using clip art or images that you clearly got from Google. If you can’t use an image that your company owns or that you created yourself, then you’ll probably be better off leaving out the picture altogether. However, there are some great sites that offer free stock photos such as Pixabay, Pexels, Unsplash and Freepik. If you can’t find the images you need on these sites there are sites that offer paid royalty-free stock images like Shutterstock, Adobe and iStock .
Less Is More
When it comes to the text in particular, less is often more. Including reams of text in your slides will mean that they’re too dense for anyone to read, and that people will be too busy reading to listen to what you’re saying. Instead try to keep your text to just a few brief bullet points on each page (see the Instapoint Powerpoint templates demo gallery) so that your audience can see the key points and write them down if they wish.
Don’t be Distracted
This isn’t to do with your slides so much as your operation of the projector. In short, try to organize a set up that will allow you to change the page without looking at the computer or the screen, as otherwise there will be constant interruptions to your talk.
What are the best presentation templates for Powerpoint?
Well, we may be a little biased but we honestly feel InstaPoint V1 & InstaPoint V2 provided unparalled “bang for the buck”. With 265 professionally designed slides across V1 and V2 plus 10 color schemes with light and dark versions the possibilities are almost endless.
