Building Great Presentations

Building GreatPresentations

What I’m going to cover The State of Presentations Crafting the Story How Do You Make It Look Good? The Art of the Delivery

ONT L FRMattan Griffel A E TH BSFounder & CEO, The Front LabsPartner, Grow/HackI run the world’s first growth hacking agency basedout of New York City and have helped launchdozens of different products. Ive also spoken atvarious industry events – including at Bloomberg,Internet Week, and Social Media Week – and havebeen featured in BusinessWeek, Mashable and TheNext Web.

This material is adapted from Garr Reynolds,Chip & Dan Heath, Kevin Allison, and others, as well as from my own experience

Have you ever sat through areally shitty presentation?

Have you ever sat through areally shitty presentation? (it’s a rhetorical question)

Who the hell likes to digest content this way?• There’s way too much text. It’s pretty easy to lose track of where you are. Are you still even listening to the speaker?• The audience has to do too much work. What is the point of this slide? What am I supposed to take away from it?• The font, colors and images are crazy ugly. Seriously, if you’re trying to visually represent something, at least put some thought into how it’s going to look.• This could be the most interesting content in the world, and it would still be boring. A bad presentation can kill any topic.

“ Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way. ” – Seth Godin

Seth’s 4 rules for slides:1) Make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them2) Don’t use cheesy images3) No dissolves, spins or other transitions4) Create a written document to leave behind

Sample Slidesfrom Seth Godin

I like Seth’s approach

I like Seth’s approach but I don’t think it’s practical

Teach Yourself to Code. How to Growth Hacking LEAN MARKETING FOR STARTUPS When they sold to Microsoft 1.5 years after launch, Hotmail had 12 million users“ Put ‘PS: I love you. Get your free e-mail at Hotmail’ at the bottom of each e-mail. A lot of you just have an idea Web applications are applications ” July September November January March May July September November accessed over the internet Viral growth This is your rails command center Do you pivot? Do you keep releasing new features? Landing page optimization Product management What do you do? SEO Analytics Part 3: Onboarding How I Taught Myself Terminal TextMateDo you experiment with other Email marketing UX to Code in One Monthmarketing channels? Do you try to target a different PR Behavioral economics demographic? Google Chrome

My presentations have been shared over 150,000 times

How do I do it?

Start at the end

The first step is to figure out your take-away

What’s the point?.

Sure, you can want people to just know more

Sure, you can want people to just know more and that’s okay

Sure, you can want people to just know more and that’s okay (but it’s also shallow and boring)

You want people to act act!

“OH!”

ASK YOURSELF:Who is your audience?

ASK YOURSELF:Why are they there?

ASK YOURSELF:What do they care about?

ASK YOURSELF:How can I speak to them?

What makesmessages stick?

Simplicity

Unexpectedness

Concreteness

Credibility

Emotion

First slide ??? ??? Last slide

Stories have 5 Beats

Stories have 5 Beats 1) Set-upEstablishesthe Who & What

Stories have 5 Beats 1) 2) Set-up Inciting IncidentEstablishes A journeythe Who & begins What

Stories have 5 Beats 1) 2) 3) Set-up Inciting Rising Incident ActionEstablishes A journey Stakesthe Who & begins continue to What increase

Stories have 5 Beats 1) 2) 3) 4) Set-up Inciting Rising Main Incident Action EventEstablishes A journey Stakes A turningthe Who & begins continue to point What increase occurs

Stories have 5 Beats 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Set-up Inciting Rising Main Resolution Incident Action EventEstablishes A journey Stakes A turning Explainsthe Who & begins continue to point what it all What increase occurs means

problem to a building upStart by

Write your o • One utline : • Line • At•A• Time

Each line builds on the previous one

And ultimately leads to yourbig take-away

Here’s mine:

Presentations are about flow

And anything not essential should be removed

You can use paper, whiteboards or stickies for storyboarding

I like to storyboard in Keynote

So how do you make it look good?

1No more than idea per slide

Reduce the noise

Slides from Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen

Also please take your logo off every slide

Also please take your logo off every slide (are you really afraid people will forget?)

“ If you want people to understand better, then get that stuff off the screen... it is simply making it more difficult for people to ” understand what you are saying. – Tom Grimes, Kansas State Journalism Professor

What simple visual elementwould complement each idea?

It could be an image

Or maybe just sometypography

Where can you get goodimages?

Buy (good) stock photography iStockPhoto (www.istockphoto.com) Shutter Stock (www.shutterstock.com)

Find images online Google Images (images.google.com) Flickr Creative Commons (www.flickr.com/creativecommons) (be careful of copyright issues)

Take your own photos

Give it room to breathe (use plenty of empty space)

Consistency isREALLYimportant

Make sure you always use the same font And same colors

Don’t center everything

Asymmetry is more interesting

Invisible lines are important

Rule of thirds (just do it.)

Buy (good) stock photography iStockPhoto (www.istockphoto.com) Shutter Stock (www.shutterstock.com)

“ Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way. ” – Seth Godin

Asymmetry is more interesting

Sure, you can want people to just know more

And try to line everything upEither on the sides Or in the middle

Avoid templates

Avoid clip art & bad stock images

Don’t use common fonts

Like Arial

Or Helvetica

Or Calibri

Or Times New Roman

Choose a good font like Serifa like Futura like Rockwell like Avenir like PF Din

Check out FontSquirrel.com

I like widescreen (you get wayresolution slides more room) 4:3 (default) 16:9

Black on white is easier to read

Black on white is easier to read (Unless you’re in the dark)

Pick a color scheme:background colormain textemphasis textcomplement text (optional)

Keep an archive of goodpresentations to inspire you

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The art of the delivery

Start by speaking with your audience

Move away from the podium

Hans Rosling at

Use a clicker

Make good eye contact

Take your time

Keep the lights on

Next steps

Presentation Zen by Garr ReynoldsRead Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath

Practice speaking at:Do

Learn everywhere

Thank you. Connect with me at www.mattangriffel.comMattan Griffelmattangriffel@gmail.com@mattangriffel

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