3. Disclaimer
The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the presenter are hers
and hers alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or
strategies of the Marketing Department.
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4. Do: Don’t:
Maintain visual alignment Let the template limit your
with corp. branding “look capacity to visually
and feel” communicate
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6. Dangers of the
Corporate Template
1. Delivery is dictated by template
2. All presentations look the same
3. Exact adherence to template leads
to crappy presentations
10. The Corporate Template is Not A Vision Test
Can you read this?
• How about this?
• What if you were at the back of the room?
• Could you read all these?
Are you thinking about calling an eye doctor?
30. 1. Make Slides Readable
2. Ditch the Agenda Slide
3. Consistent Section Slides
4. Embrace the Brand Colors
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31. blog.ideatransplant.com
Read
“Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it)”
sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf
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32. Challenge
Challenge
Employ one of these
design tactics in your
next PowerPoint
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33. Challenge
Challenge
Send me slides that suck.
Let’s make them not suck.
Send me PPTs that
feature good slide design.
Let’s show them off.
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