Learn five simple tips on how to improve your presenting skills, and in turn increase your business profile.

1. Tips for giving
great
presentations
By Jen Sotolongo

2. TIP #
Layout and Basic Design

3. HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
• Bullets followed by full sentences are boring.
 Even if you use fancy bullets.
• Your audience is not reading everything on the slide because there is too
much information and it all looks the same. And the font is too small
and you’re making everyone squint.
• I like cookies!
• Especially when your presenter is just reading word-for-word off the
slides. May as well just give them a printed document and let them read
it on their own time.
• How many presentations have you endured just like this?
• Probably a lot.
• I bet this slide makes you…

4. Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/14681386081

5. keep it
simple.

6. tell a
story.

7. Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hz536n/3484117787/in/photostream/
It’s OK
to
borrow.
Find inspiration from
other great
presentations and
mimic what they did.

8. Photos are nice
Find high quality
images online or use
your own, but don’t
steal.
That’s not cool,
but this is:
Photo credit: Jen Sotolongo
This is how you give credit.

9. TIP #
Don’t be Afraid to use Color

10. But let’s not go overboard
Photo Credit: http://itsnasb.com/nastalgic-thursday-lisa-frank/

11. Find inspiration for
your color scheme
in foods…
Photo credit: Jen Sotolongo

12. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/husker_alum/8627671825
nature…

13. Your favorite
sports team…

14. Snoop Dogg
Even Katy Perry
used a color
scheme

15. TIP #
Let’s Talk about Text, Baby

16. Stay away from
these fonts:
Times New Roman
Arial
Courier New
Brush Script
Comic Sans
Papyrus
Mistral
Etc. Photo Credit: http://idlikearedo.com/2013/07/29/the-walmart-microwave-hunt/

17. Here’s a
sample of
some
great fonts
And I’d be using them if
I could download them
to my work computer…

18. Illustrate importance with:
a different font
color
CAPITAL LETTERS
size

19. A word on text effects and
animations:
A pain to create
They’re slow
Distracting
Annoying

20. Keep your font size to a
minimum of
30
This is 44
This is 30
This is 18. You probably can’t read this one.

21. TIP #
Geeky Chic Data

22. All these numbers
kinda make you
feel a bit loopy, no?

23. Photo Credit: http://galleryhip.com/goat-yelling.html

24. Pie Preference
Blackberry
Apple
Not another
pie chart!!
π
Photo Credit: http://www.examiner.com/article/easy-delicious-and-nutritious-fruit-pies-to-enjoy-all-year

25. Put your data
into perspective

26. Infographics are
your friend

27. TIP #
Practice Makes Perfect

28. Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hz536n/3484117787/in/photostream/
Practice
aloud.
Pets make a great
audience.

29. Let’s recap:
#5 Practice Makes Perfect
#1 Layout and Basic Design
#2 Don’t be Afraid to use Color
#3 Let’s Talk about Text, Baby
#4 Geeky Chic Data

30. Thank You!
Questions?
jen@mthoodterritory.com

31. Appendix
Presentation Inspiration
You Suck at PowerPoint
Steal this Presentation!
Thirst
Smoke
Death by PowerPoint
8 Tips for an Awesome PowerPoint Presentation
Free Font Resources
1001 Free Fonts
Dafont
Font Squirrel

32. Appendix
Royalty Free Image and Photo Resources
Flickr
Getty Images
Stock.Xchng
Creative Commons Search
Google Image Search