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Why both stories and a storyline are important for your presentations

A lot of people are talking about telling stories during a presentation. Why is that?

Stories are

A powerful way to evoke emotions, which is important because people remember emotionally-charged experiences better and longer An age-old way of making a topic interesting, so the audience pays more attention An alternate way to make your [...]

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Many people don’t realize that prices fluctuate constantly, particularly on websites like Amazon, which allow third party vendors to continually undercut one [...]

A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule

Here’s a quick way to improve the design of slides that include some text and a photo. This type of slide is very common. But it doesn’t look very striking.

Here’s the principle: Make the photo touch 3 sides of the slide. When you do this, your slide will look bolder and clearer. [...]

Create cool, Zen-style PowerPoint backgrounds with Background Styles

PowerPoint 2007 introduced background styles, which are solid or subtle gradient backgrounds based on some of the colors in your theme colors. They can create a cool, Zen-style look. You can use them alone, or in conjunction with your theme.

Use background styles on their own

Open PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 and you’ll see [...]

Discover 3 reasons most presentations fail and 3 easy ways to fix them

I did a webinar for Brainshark.com and mybrainshark.com, a presentation-sharing website. It was called “3 reasons most presentations fail and 3 ways to fix them.” Over 500 people attended!

The 1-hour webinar included makeovers of slides that attendees submitted. You can watch the presentation for free here. Let me know what you think by [...]

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