This document provides 27 presentation tips with examples of how to effectively create and deliver presentations. Some key tips include providing credentials upfront, using humor and interactive questions to engage audiences, supporting company success stories with credentials, and ending by thanking the audience and providing contact information. The tips are demonstrated through example slides that utilize images, charts, and questions to convey messages in an impactful way. Overall, the tips suggest optimizing presentations for audience engagement and memorability.

1. Presentation Tips by Rodinhood!
[includes example slides after each tip!]
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
Founder – 2win group &
therodinhoods

2. How this PPT works
• The TIP comes first as a slide. It is in
this blue color and is in Italics
• A real example comes after the tip slide.
Its in Black and not in Italics.
• If you get confused, go back & forth
between the 2 slides of colors and you
will get the point being made!

3. Tip 1 : Provide credentials
(if required)

4. Credentials!
Q: What makes me worthy of this PPT?
A: Over the past 15 years, I’ve presented over
100+ times. This includes Harvard University,
B-Schools like IIM, ISB, SP Jain; Fortune 500
Companies, ad:tech, TEDx, TechCrunch, etc.
Audiences everywhere have appreciated my
presentations and that gives me the confidence
to put this together for you!

5. Tip 2 : If possible, present
yourself humorously!

6. An Introduction
Disclosure:
I am not an MBA
I am not an Engineer
I am not a CA
I am not an LLB
I am not a PHD
I am not
‘whatever’…
I am an Entrepreneur

7. Tip 3 : If you are sharing a
Company’s success story,
support the same by a
credential:

8. We made a # 1 and # 2 app in the world

9. Tip 4: I love to use full screen
images with one liners to create
mental stories and to start a
discussion…

10. You are
the CEO…

11. Tip 5: If possible, ONLY use
photos that you have shot. It
adds a special touch to the
presentation and becomes
‘unique’…

12. I walked out of the family business…

13. Tip 6 : Share images of your
colleagues while making a
point! It feels good!

15. Tip 7 :
Use images that make an
IMPACT:

16. And will very soon KILL you.

17. Tip 8: To wake up the crowd,
ask an interactive question?

18. (Q to the audience)
Can you spot the difference?

19. Tip 9 : Try and use images that
directly tell the story….

21. Tip 10: Humor ALWAYS works.
Tease your audience, provoke
them!

22. I assume you drive this car?

23. Tip 11: There are NO
MANNERS in making PPTs
(usually). Use fonts & language
that convey the message:

24. Revenues from advertising
SUCK

25. Tip 12 : Use examples that
people KNOW and have
experienced to make your point.

26. On Linkedin…

27. “Profile completion %” is the
simplest game invented, to
make you add
extraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
details to your profile…

28. Just to help Linkedin make lots
of extraaaaaaaaa money…

29. By targeting your extraaaaaaaa
completed profile to advertisers…. 

30. Tip 13: Use simple business
logic and examples to
SIMPLIFY a difficult topic:

31. How advertising works (follow the lines)
A candy bar
sells for US$1
Advertising &
Marketing =
30%
Advertising =
30 cents
Online ads =
10% of
Advertising
Online ads = 3
cents
“Ad Network”
takes 50%
1.5 cents
remain
Gets
distributed to
websites
Website gets
1.5 cents of a
1$ Candy Bar

32. How in-app sales work!
I create a
mobile game
Errr – A candy
Game
Game is deep
& long but free
The game
requires you to
DIE or BUY
Nobody likes
to DIE
So, we all BUY
“In-Game
Candy” = 0.99
cents
Apple/Google
gives me 70%!
I get 70 cents
from MY OWN
CANDY SALE

33. Tip 14: Make fun of yourself on
stage! It works!!

34. What I did before dot.com
Yeah,
that’s
me!

35. Tip 15: If you are using charts,
use simple ones that make an
impact and then can be
explained to the audience

36. 2. Let the app float on ITS OWN

37. Tip 16: I always use my
Company images, mascots, art
assets to convey messages.
They just stand out!

38. 8. Don’t advertise.
• Unless you have a + ROI LTV

39. Tip 17: Use the language of the
audience. If in Mumbai, talk like
Mumbai…

40. Achha MTV Bole To?

41. Tip 18: Ask a question to the
audience; get a response and
then reveal your answer…

42. Do you want to make the most
of a Client Meeting?

43. First a question:
• Who do you think your client is?

44. I think that my client is:

45. Tip 19: If your presentation is
technical or domain specific,
clarify WHO it is meant for and
also some disclosures

46. Who is this meant for?
• Entrepreneurs who need guidance on ESOP ideas and
policy for their Company.
• Employees who need to understand what ESOPs are,
and how they work.
• People elsewhere in the business ecosystem, who may
have questions on ESOPs and its core principles.
• Anyone interested in learning about a very interesting
and valuable capital idea that has been responsible for
creating massive wealth for employees and employers!

47. Disclosures:
• The principles and guidelines spoken about in this
presentation are used and adopted strictly for the 2win
group of companies that I operate/have invested in.
• There are various alternative interpretations of ESOP
best practices that other companies and employers may
adopt.
• This document should serve as a guideline and
reference - not as a rule book!

48. Tip 20: People believe REAL
STORIES. Provide a few to
them.

49. ESOPS WORK! Ask these people

50. Tip 21: Summarize a
presentation if you have shared
lots of lessons and insights

51. Summary
• Think of Virality as
communication, and organic
marketing, but not as
advertising!
• Let people talk. Good, Bad or
Ugly. Just let them talk.
• Snoop into the conversation
ONLY when required. Don’t
mess with the mess.
• Erect viral triggers, but subtly.

52. Tip 22: To extend your
conversation with your
audience, ask them to do
something and revert to you!

53. Assignment
What would you DO in this case, how and
why?
Mail me – alok@rodinhood.com

54. Tip 23: In a business pitch,
ASK directly for what you want
so that the discussion can then
pivot from there

55. Google, please give us some
editorial love?

56. Tip 23: To provoke your
audience, present them a
‘checklist’ – this will get them
thinking and call you back!

57. Checklist
• Have you:
– Blogged?
– Been an influencer on Quora?
– Presented at ad:tech, demo, pluggd.in, IITs, IIMs?
– Written for leading publications?
– Trended on Twitter?
– Activated Pinterest?
– Conducted “Hangouts”?
– Been “Slideshared”?
– “Tumbl’d”?

58. Tip 24: If you are pitching a
service, DETAIL what you can
do

59. What we can do for you
• Be smart about your PR and help with the
checklist
• Create content, curate and host events
• Influence digiterati and generate industry
invitations
• One stop shop for making sure you develop a
digital ‘halo’!

60. Tip 25 : Hygiene pointers

61. Hygiene:
• I always use Arial and either a white or
black template so that there is no
distortion on large screens/SlideShare,
etc.
• MS PPT is the best option for me. Prezi is
too complicated and distorts on screen.
Keynote is cool but it gets messed up
when moving between Mac and PC.

62. Hygiene:
• SPEND HOURS ANIMATING each slide of your
PPT and getting the impact of each point across.
• Try and create impact using 8-10 slides max.
• ALWAYS TEST RUN your PPT when presenting at
events. Check screen resolutions, edges that may
cut your slides, etc.
• I avoid sound files. The volume is always an issue
and getting audio connections is always a
challenge.
• To improve your PPTs, keep checking the Top
Presentations on SlideShare every week!

63. Tip 26: How to present on
stage?

64. ‘How to present’ tips
• If possible, mike-up, carry a remote control
AND MOVE ACROSS THE FLOOR. Don’t
get stuck like a statue whose feet are
glued to the ground.
• SPEAK LESS. Let the pictures and the
headers TALK.
• Be spontaneous. If the audience is cold
ask them if they need sweaters…

65. Tip 27: End with THANKS and
contact points

66. Connect with me!
e-mail - alok@rodinhood.com
Facebook -
facebook.com/rodinhood
Twitter - @rodinhood
My social network for anyone
enterprising!
therodinhoods.com
Presentations –
http:slideshare.net/rodinhood