Episode #16, Pitch Decks is live.
Sandy is back this week and we’re discussing presentation pitch decks, large and small. From individual “resume presentations” to investor startup decks to massive multi-million dollar agency proposals.
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My hourly rate for PowerPoint work is $2,000 an hour.
I realize that seems quite high—higher than the hourly rate of the country’s top-paid lawyer (rumored to be $1,800/hr.) But recently that’s what my hourly rate worked out to on a recent project when I charged $1,000 for 1/2 hour of work for the setup of the most basic of PowerPoint templates based on an existing design.
Read the full article at Presentation-Guru.com
Episode #15, Financial Slides is live.
Sandy is off this week and pinch hitting for her is fellow PowerPoint MVP and good friend Dave Paradi of Think Outside the Slide. Dave trains companies all over the world on how to present better with an emphasis on financial and business data and numbers. The kind of thing you would expect from a presentation expert with an MBA. Dave has written numerous books on the subject, and publishes an annual survey on the greatest frustrations people have with financial presentations. (Spoiler alert: the two most mentioned words are “Confusing” and “Boring.”) Take a listen as we talk about financial decks.
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I completely stole Hackernoon’s headline for my own, but it’s quite a good question, especially with regard to this TechCrunch Disrupt speaker.
Check out their take here.
And get this guy a guest spot on Silicon Valley pronto.
Episode #14, What’s On Your Bookshelf is live.
This week it’s all about books on presentation, design, speaking, data viz and more. And tons of show notes!
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Come on, you know you want to make a statement with all that stock photography you’re using, right?
More at Adobe (who proves they do have a sense of humor)
Fellow Microsoft MVP Glenna Shaw and I recorded this quick tip last year on the Microsoft campus for their Channel 9 series.
Subscribers to my newsletter have access to a custom Excel tool to calculate size of proportional shapes, but you can let Microsoft do all the work for you by starting with a bubble chart and then breaking it apart. Take a look!
While I can’t say I’m happy about the data behind this chart from the NY Times (increasing murder rates across the country), I do love the simplicity of design.
Attach.io has posted 15 startup pitch decks from companies big and small, but all the resulted in raising significant capital.
There’s some good here (Airbnb) and some horrendous (YouTube), but design aside—and I usually never say that—what is to be learned from these is the simplicity of messaging and limited content.
As Guy Kawasaki has said, if you can’t explain your business in ten slides, you don’t understand your business and I don’t want to invest in it.
Check out all the decks here.
Episode #13, Where Do You Get Your Presentation Imagery is live.
Take a listen as we discuss the ins and outs and legalities of stock imagery for presentation.
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