EXPLANASTORY™ means that your slide deck should be able to read, understand, and comprehend without the assistance of a dictionary, audio voice over, or having to stop and think about what the content is trying to explain on each and every slide.

1. ASTORY
EXPLAN-Make sure your slides are
TM

2. Let’s start with online
presentations that are
NOT EXPLANASTORY.

3. Ugly Online
Presentation

4. Boring stuff

5. Ugly Online
Presentation
More boring stuff

6. Still awake there?

8. NOT EXPLANASTORY

9. Still awake there?Nice Presentation
Online

10. Still awake there?This is pretty

11. Ooh, this is pretty too

12. Still awake there?
But do you understand?

14. NOT EXPLANASTORY

15. Now let’s examine live
presentations that are
NOT EXPLANASTORY.

16. Boring Live
Presentation
page 1 of 200
Presented by: Dr. Lame PHD, MBA, XYZ

17. Aren’t
you
bored?
Can
you
even
follow
along?
Do
you
want
to
follow
along?
I
bet
you
already
stopped
reading
at
this
point
because
there’s
too
much
text
on
this
slide.
Good
thing
you
have
me
to
read
the
informa@on
directly
off
my
slides
for
you.
Not
to
men@on
completely
ignoring
you
in
the
process.
Look at all my text!

18. Maybe i’ll add bullets
28%
24%9%
8%
7%
6%
4%
4%
3%3%2%2%1%
• That’ll
make
you
pay
aFen@on
for
sure.
• Oh
no,
I
forgot
what
I
was
talking
about.
Time
to
read
from
my
notes
now.
• But
hey,
at
least
I
have
a
preFy
liFle
pie
chart
to
keep
you
interested
right?

20. •
Alright,
now
the
glasses
are
coming
off.
•
Now
you
listen
here,
blah
blah.
•
Blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
•
That’s
all
you’re
hearing
because
my
presenta@on
sucks.
Thank
you.
Yes! Let’s continue

21. NOT EXPLANASTORY

22. presentation
Prettylive

23. Look at me! I’m so
energetic and cute!

24. But without text,
do you understand
my presentation?

25. Let’s see...

28. NOT EXPLANASTORY

29. Ok, so what exactly is
EXPLANASTORY?

30. I am Yancey
Unequivocally!

31. Allow me
to explain...

32. In simple terms,
it means to
“explain”
a “story”.

33. “The ability to
understand
a presentation
without
someone else
presenting
it to them.”

34. All of our marketing
projects are formatted
EXPLANASTORY.

35. Here are a few examples:

40. How about this one?

45. And don’t forget...

50. You can understand
these presentations solely
by viewing their slides.

51. Why is
EXPLANASTORY
effective?

52. Because it combines
stories, statistics,
and great visuals
appealing to both...

53. LEFT
brainers
and

54. RIGHT
brainers

55. meaning
MORE
engagement

56. When should you use
EXPLANASTORY?

57. Online Trainings

62. Presentation Loops

67. and of course on
SlideShare!

72. Here are 3 simple
tips to help you create
EXPLANASTORY
style presentations:

73. Use great visuals
that back up your content.
tip #1

74. Bad Visuals?

75. Great Visuals!

76. Use language that a 10-
year old can understand.
tip #2

77. Hard to Understand?

78. Simple to Understand!

79. Create a storyboard
around your subject matter.
tip #3

80. No Storyboard?

81. Storyboard!

82. Here at EP,
we’ve been using
EXPLANASTORY
since the very
beginning...

84. So make sure your
next presentation is
EXPLANASTORY !
TM

85. Let us help you
Explain your story!

86. View more
EXPLANASTORY Presentations: