It is a common but mistaken preconception that powerpoint presentations are easy to master. Indeed, where sales presentations are concerned in particular, the novice who decides to use Powerpoint can end up doing more bad than good to his or her commercial prospects. This is because Powerpoint design is an art to be learnt; much like painting or drawing it requires the acquisition and refinement of acute visual skills and an imaginative approach to composition. Audiences become easily bored and worse, turned off, by presentations that only exploit the bare minimum degree of potential from a software product that can actually be a real asset when used expertly.
Businesses that spend a large amount of their time marketing ideas to external clients should, with the above warning in mind, take care to invest in adequate training for their employees. In brief, a member of the team who gives a bad impression of the brand through Powerpoint or who fails to sell what in actual fact is a stellar idea will be making a business loss not only in the short run – in terms of immediate revenue – but also in terms of the long term acceptance of the future ideas of his or her colleagues.
What needs to be understood is that originality and performance really matter in Powerpoint advertising. In the hyper-industrialised age people are not easily fobbed off by cheap ploys for fast sales of nothing substantial; in an economy that has long been based on debt and trading on nothing concrete, new commercial ideas are unsurprisingly met with scepticism. As such, audiences and panels are looking for products and services offering change, inspiration, perhaps even a feeling of innocence – even if false – to help us forget that almost every aspect of human life has been commodified.
Make good use of powerpoint presentations then – they are mere supports for our ingenuity and should enlighten ideas rather than serve them up cold in a font and format we’ve all seen before. Sales presentations will benefit manifold from this approach that is only possible if Powerpoint design is well taught.
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