PowerPoint Design Templates, Tips, and Graphics
Read through our blog to find the best PowerPoint presentation graphics, design tips, templates, and graphics. In the age of presentation template bliss, you have no excuses for building a boring presentation ever again. We have useful topics to read through ranging from instructional design to PowerPoint template customization for our awesome collection of presentation graphics.
When and Where to Use Graphics in a Page-limited Document
With travel this week, I've decided to keep this blog short and to the point (as some of your documents need to be). When should you use a graphic when space is limited? Here are three reasons to choose a visual representation in a page-limited proposal or marketing...
How to Use the New Graphics Uploaded to GMG
Check out the latest cloud computing graphics recently added to Get My Graphic with a few suggestions for how to use them. These PowerPoint graphics are just a select few of the 200+ new graphics added in April to Get My Graphic. All are editable in PowerPoint 2007 or...
How to Make Your Benefits and Discriminators Stand Out
Potential clients have fractured attention spans. Your target audience wants to quickly understand your solution and know why they should use your product or buy into your solution. Your goal is to make it as easy as possible for your audience to choose you and your...
The First Step in Creating a Persuasive Presentation
The presentation process I teach is called U.S.E.—Understand, Summarize and Explain. Looking at the first step (Understand) there are three core elements: audience, need, and requirements (if applicable). To be persuasive, our presentation must resonate with the...
3 Steps to a Better Webinar Start
Meghan Dotter is the principal at Portico Presentations. Follow presentation content and delivery discussions @PorticoPR and The Present Better Blog at www.PorticoPresentations.com. Webinars are a great way to reach more people at a lower cost. They're also a highly...
New Graphics. Different Ways to Communicate.
We've recently launched a Get My Graphic Facebook page where several times a week we'll highlight a different graphic from our Get My Graphic collection and explain how you can use this image to communicate your ideas. Below is a sampling of our new graphics and...
5 Typography Rules That I Use
Many times I see presentations and marketing materials and even websites using "razzle-dazzle" fonts that aren't readable or even appropriate. There are so many typefaces from which to choose, it can be daunting—not to mention various styles within each font family....
How to Pick Colors for Your Next Presentation
Recently, I gave a webinar through PresentationXpert. Before and during my presentation, the audience was encouraged to ask questions, and I was surprised at the number of questions concerning color choice. However, these concerns shouldn't have surprised me. Color is...
New GMG Graphic Metaphors
Want to make your ideas more memorable? Tie them into a graphic metaphor. Challenge your audience to make the connection between two unique concepts and that connection will stay in their long-term memory. Here are several new graphic metaphors from Get My Graphic....
Albert Einstein—A Visual Genius
What causes someone to be a genius and make so many groundbreaking contributions to our world? This is the question scientists have tried to answer for several decades by exploring Albert Einstein's brain—well, actually, his stolen brain. In the article Einstein's...
How to Render a Conveyor Belt Graphic in PowerPoint
More and more designers are relying on PowerPoint to create graphics, because they don't have access to programs like Adobe Illustrator. Often Get My Graphic users ask how I design these professional looking graphics in PowerPoint. Certain effects can be created...
Top 5 Executive Summary Secrets
Imagine you are driving to an important client meeting. Without warning the car in front of you stops. You slam on your brakes, causing the coffee in your hand to spill and soak your shirt. It’s 1:40 p.m.; your meet is at 2:00 p.m. so you continue to the client’s...
Embedding Fonts in PowerPoint
A challenge many presenters face is what font to use in their presentations. Often, I recommend using a clean font like Arial. It works well especially with large text being projected on a screen in titles, graphics, and bulleted lists (remember that your slides...
The Cure for Blank Slide Syndrome
When you are churning out several presentations (and/or marketing materials) in a year—or especially in a month—it is easy to get frustrated trying to find new concepts, new ways to show your ideas. Starting with a blank slide or page will not motivate you. You need...
Who needs permission? It’s on the Internet. It has to be free.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, known for developing the first compiler for a computer programming language as well as having an extraordinary wit, said, "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." What she meant was to take your ideas and run with them....
Updated Graphic Cheat Sheet
Three years ago, we created a Graphic Cheat Sheet to help our readers find the right graphic to communicate their ideas. We didn't realize how popular it would become and how our audience would grab up Graphic Cheat Sheet posters at conferences and workshops. We've...
5 Steps to Bring About Change in Your Graphics Process
Whether you want to revise your review process or update your company’s graphics, the challenge is the same: How do you affect change in an organization that is (very) reluctant to change? During one of my workshops this question was asked, and the best answer came...
Paint a Picture: A Question that Makes Sales and Wins Proposals
There is a question that, if answered, gives you the insight to make sales and wins proposals. I was invited to give a class with Dr. Robert Frey, author ofSuccessful Proposal Strategies for Small Businesses, at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). During...