¿TIRED OF USING GENERIC POWERPOINT TEMPLATES?
Forget about those pre-designed PowerPoint templates. PowerPoint is the most popular presentations program in the world, so imagine the number of people in millions using predesigned templates suggested by PowerPoint.
Start using your personalized templates for your next presentation. It is important that you have your personalized set of templates for your next presentation as part of your marketing material and start standing out and looking professional (your audience will notice). Your personalized template is your introductory letter, it is one of the forms to show your image or brand, and it will make your presentation look professional.
¿WHAT ELEMENTS TO USE WHEN CREATING YOUR PERSONALIZED TEMPLATE?
Build a template you don’t get bored easily. If you build it well, it can stay for a long time. Take into consideration your brand or industry components: these elements are visual attributes that rarely change. Like, for instance: your logo, slogan, corporate colors and others.
Look through all the material your Company produces and identify those elements that are merely decorative and the truly essential visual elements. Choose the essential elements!
This is a good example of personalized templates. The essential graphic elements of the brand were taken: logo, colors and including photographs; in this case also her contact information was placed (adapted to this professional and her audience’s needs, obviously)
The idea of having your template set is that you can vary them and not repeat the same template along the whole presentation.
The ideal is for your set of 3 templates to have: a cover, a content template and a closing one. This is a template with a personalized design.
I recommend you start designing a set of 3 templates for your Company or corporate image. Then, depending on your needs: brand change, type of audience or for other reasons, you can make the necessary changes to your original or “master” template. With time, you can also increase the number of templates to 6 or 9 personalized templates.
Take into account also the following:
Presentation theme: for example, about leadership, promotion of a product or service, marketing issues
Photographs or graphic elements to use according to the theme of your presentation
Colors you want to use, that are also related to the theme of your presentation or contain the corporate colors of your Company or brand.
FREE set of personalized PowerPoint templates.
EXAMPLE OF PREDESIGNED POWERPOINT TEMPLATE:
This is an example of a slide without any personalized or predesigned PowerPoint template design. I have seen this template in several presentations I have attended to, as well as many other PowerPoint templates. They give no good impression or better, have no WOW factor. They don’t identify with the presenter or the presentation’s theme.
Making bad slides is easy and will negatively impact your career. Invest in the design of your templates, as well as in training or learning how to make your own templates.
Important Note: it is not necessary to use a personalized template for the whole presentation; what I mean to say is that you use slides in your presentation that do not have your template’s design. This is with the purpose of not tiring your audience’s sight and creating expectations every time you open a new slide. This will keep them alert and awake.
“The template is the base to place your words and images"
Start using your personalized templates in PowerPoint and stand out in your next presentation; your audience will notice it.
IMAGES:
Slide images are Cavi Media designs
Header images are from Stock Unlimited.
