Thursday, March 6, 2008

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.

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