Tips for giving

great

presentations

By Jen Sotolongo

TIP #

Layout and Basic Design

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?

• Bullets followed by full sentences are boring.

Even if you use fancy bullets.

• Your audience is not reading everything on the slide because there is too

much information and it all looks the same. And the font is too small

and you’re making everyone squint.

• I like cookies!

• Especially when your presenter is just reading word-for-word off the

slides. May as well just give them a printed document and let them read

it on their own time.

• How many presentations have you endured just like this?

• Probably a lot.

• I bet this slide makes you…

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keep it

simple.

tell a

story.

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It’s OK

to

borrow.Find inspiration from

other great

presentations and mimic what they did.

Photos are niceFind high quality

images online or use

your own, but don’t

steal.

That’s not cool,

but this is:

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This is how you give credit.

TIP #

Don’t be Afraid to use Color

But let’s not go overboard

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Find inspiration for

your color scheme

in foods…

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nature…

Your favorite

sports team…

Snoop Dogg

Even Katy Perry

used a color

scheme

TIP #

Let’s Talk about Text, Baby

Stay away from

these fonts:Times New Roman

ArialCourier New

Brush ScriptComic Sans

PapyrusMistral

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Here’s a

sample of

some

great fontsAnd I’d be using them if

I could download them

to my work computer…

Illustrate importance with:

a different font

color

CAPITAL LETTERS

size

A word on text effects and animations:

A pain to create

They’re slow

Distracting

Annoying

Keep your font size to a

minimum of

30

This is 44This is 30

This is 18. You probably can’t read this one.

TIP #

Geeky Chic Data

All these numbers

kinda make you

feel a bit loopy, no?

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Pie Preference

Blackberry

Apple

Not anotherpie chart!!

π

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Put your data

into perspective

Infographics are

your friend

TIP #

Practice Makes Perfect

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Practice

aloud.Pets make a great audience.

Let’s recap:

#5 Practice Makes Perfect

#1 Layout and Basic Design

#2 Don’t be Afraid to use Color

#3 Let’s Talk about Text, Baby

#4 Geeky Chic Data

Thank You!

Questions?

jen@mthoodterritory.com

Appendix

Presentation InspirationYou Suck at PowerPoint

Steal this Presentation!

Thirst

Smoke

Death by PowerPoint

8 Tips for an Awesome PowerPoint Presentation

Free Font Resources1001 Free Fonts

Dafont

Font Squirrel

Appendix

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