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How to Use
PowerPoint
for Digital
Signage
By PresentationPoint.com

2. More cost-effective
than traditional
signage
Explosive growth
Easy to change
and update
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Why is Digital
Signage
Important?

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Why PowerPoint?
Software most offices have
and know how to use
Access to many
templates
Easier to use than
custom systems

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What Can Be
Shown On Your
Digital Signage
Directions
Events
Advertising
Videos
Audio
News
Weather
Sports
Menu items
Tickers
TV feeds

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Step 1: Planning
Your Digital
Signage
Single sign or multiple signs
controlled from a central point?
What hardware?
A few ideas to consider

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Hardware Options
1. Repurpose any old computers into
digital signage players
3. Use Intel Computer Stick (about
$140) for each monitor
2. Purchase new, inexpensive low
power computers for players

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Step 2: Layout
 What will you show? Need spots for each content section
 Can do a rough draft in PowerPoint and then ask a graphic designer to
give it a higher graphic impact

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Step 3: Tips on
creating great
sign designs
SO MUCH TEXT IS EVIL

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This is a document! A presentation is the process of presenting
a topic to an audience. It is typically a demonstration, lecture, or
speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can also
be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the
presentation of a debutante. The process of offering for consideration or
display. It’s a social introduction, as of a person at court, a
demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech, a manner or style of
speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward, the manner of
presenting, especially the organization of visual details to create an
overall impression, the formal introduction of a person, as into society
or at court; debut

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This is a document! A presentation is the process of
presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a demonstration,
lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The
term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering,
as with the presentation of a debutante. The process of offering for
consideration or display. It’s a social introduction, as of a person at
court, a demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech, a manner or style
of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward, the manner of
presenting, especially the organization of visual details to create an
overall impression, the formal introduction of a person, as into society
or at court; debut

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Step 3: Tips on
creating great
sign designs
LET YOUR SLIDES BREATHE

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Step 4: Adding
Pictures
IMAGES SAY MORE THAN A
THOUSAND WORDS

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Step 4: Adding
Pictures
IMAGES TEND TO CATCH PEOPLE’S ATTENTION!

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Step 4: Adding
Pictures
Makes message more powerful

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Step 5: Adding
Videos
JUST LIKE IMAGES, VIDEOS MAKE
YOUR PRESENTATION MORE FRIENDLY.

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Step 5: Adding
Videos
Some emotions need visual representation

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Step 6: Adding
Content
VIEW EVERY SLIDE AS AN ADVERTISEMENT

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Step 6: Adding
Content
Make it simple, less is more!

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Step 6: Adding
Content
To the point and keep relevant!

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Connecting to
Data
Latest events Updated
advertising
News and
weather
Updated menu
items
Latest pricing
Latest flight
arrival and
departure times
Automatically update
your PowerPoint
digital signage with:

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DataPoint
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• Automatically updates your PowerPoint from
• RSS feeds
• Excel spreadsheets
• CSV files
• Microsoft Access databases
• SQL databases and more
We recommend DataPoint

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Managing Multiple
Screens/
Players
• For multiple screens/players, you
will need a scheduler/player
management system compatible
with PowerPoint
• We recommend iPoint

23. Digital player/scheduling software that
will run PowerPoint, video, graphic, audio
and other playlists
Can schedule different playlists on different
players (for example, showing ads for a
nearby mall store more often on players
closest to the store)
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iPoint

24. News Weather Events Price lists Airport Hotel Retail
Digital
restaurant
menu
board and
more
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Digital Signage
Templates
Free digital signage templates at PresentationPoint.com

25. Free 20 minute digital signage
consultation
www.PresentationPoint.com
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