How to Addict your Audience to your PowerPoint

If PowerPoint was a drug then it would be a depressant, a narcotic. There are three steps to addict your audience to PowerPoint presentations. Step one is going cold turkey. This means to go cold and get rid of all the useless features of your presentation so your audience actually fined pleasure in watching your PowerPoint. For instance get rid of templates and cut the text, make sure the audience won’t ignore your speeches just because your PowerPoint is too full of information. Make yourself the information source and fill up your PowerPoint with images and color. Step two is to find the appropriate dosage. Keep your PowerPoint simple and don’t give the audience too much information, go through the presentation with them slowly and in steps. Step three is to develop dependency. Get your audience addicted to your simple and easy to understand presentations and keep them wanting more.

The 10/20/30 Rule

The optimal number of slides for a PowerPoint presentation is 10 slides. Ten good topics to have for each slide if you’re a businessman are a problem, your solution, business model, underlying magic/technology, marketing and sales, competition, team Projections and milestones, status and timeline and the summary with a call to action. You should spend about two minutes on each slide which will result your PowerPoint in lasting around twenty minutes. These twenty minutes of introduction will allow you forty minutes of discussion about the subject and your presentation. Also keeps your font below thirty points so people aren’t disturbed by the reading being too hard or too easy. The rule is 10 slides, 20 minutes and 30 points in font, nothing more to a good presentation.

10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

These are ten tips for a killer PowerPoint presentation. Don’t abuse your visuals, keep them simple and without text so your audience is more focused on what you say than on the presentation. Make eye contact with everyone so they feel that you are giving them attention and want them to learn. Show some personality during your presentation so the audience knows you are just as interested in the subject as they should be. Make them laugh so they are having fun as well as learning. Interact with your audience by asking and responding some questions throughout your presentation. Tell the audience the truth while presenting so you don’t make them feel you are speaking just the exact way you would understand things. Don’t over prepare your presentation so it sounds like a perfect dialogue, be spontaneous and improvise a little! Pace around and show some gestures to get involved into your speech, nobody wants to see a non moving stick presenting to them. Don’t say “umm” or “ah” too much, watch how you speak and what you say. Make you presentation and what you say very different, make sure they remember your special way of presenting.