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Company Status

2009 – A DIFFICULT YEAR

Challenges

Economic slowdown Too much inventory led

to discounting and low margins

Expenses reduced 20% Layoffs Benefits Budget cuts across the

board

Sales

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Expense cuts couldn’t keep pace

with downward sales trends

Inc.Exp.

Difficulty extended to competitors as well

2010 OUTLOOKDemand will come back.

YOU’RE READING AHEAD! (Everyone does if there’s too much text)

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•Bullet point 1• More bullets here• Even more• Against all odds, more bullet points• Count ‘em

• There’s so many• Hard to believe

• Bullet here• Bullet there

•So many bullets!• Easy to ignore• Generally unhelpful

Small Bullet Points

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Expenses$350M

Income $135M

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2010 projection

“Cautiously optimistic”

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Consumers in 2010?

Cautiouscomeback

Less cash

Thank you.

Powerpoint

BEAR

Images are better than textIMAGE TEXT

There are so many important things to say

Don’t want to leave anything out1 Don’t forget this tidbit2 And there’s more here3 Will they remember this?4 Yet another point

BearDid you catch that?

5 You missed the most important part

Big is better than little

Can youfind theword

BEAR?

Find the BEAR. Here it is. But it’s hard to find if there’s lots of text on the page, even if it’s first.

Why would you add so much extra text to the slide?

It’s easy to copy and paste lots of text from a word document. But no one cares. No one will remember all this. Look how long it is.

There’s no reason not to keep the font size large and the text limited.

LITTLE BIG

Simple is better than colorfulSIMPLE, HIGH CONTRAST LOTS OF COLORS

Ok. Color for important stuff.

There are so many important things to say

Don’t want to leave anything out1 Don’t forget this tidbit2 And there’s more here3 Will they remember this?4 Yet another point

Bear5 I just said it.

Did you catch that?6 You missed the most important

part

UN-HIGHLIGHTED HIGHLIGHTED

There are so many important things to say

Don’t want to leave anything out1 Don’t forget this tidbit2 And there’s more here3 Will they remember this?4 Yet another point

BEAR5 I just said it.

Did you catch that?6 You missed the most important

part

Bars are better than pies

GiraffeZebraElkBear

Giraffe

Zebra

Elk

Bear

BAR PIE

Outlined tables are harder to readLINELESS TABLE LINED TABLE

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3Fly Camel Toad

Monkey Bird CaribouLion Lemur WaspBear Ox Panda

Snake Penguin Hippo

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3Penguin Cow LemurMonkey Bird Iguana

Lion Wasp BearCaribou Ox Panda

Hippo Snake Toad

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