Welcome to the Presentation Guild Blog

In case you missed it, along with the launch of our new website, we also revamped our logo! We are excited to share a behind-the-scenes peek at the evolution of and inspiration behind the Presentation Guild brand.  

Want to add a touch of magic and sleekness to your presentation game? Well, look no further! This hack is all about creating an invisible trigger that opens an embedded document with just one click. 

We all know not to use too much text on a slide. We all know to make the text we DO use big enough for everybody in the audience to read. But how big is “big enough”?

The biggest stumbling block for entrepreneurs when establishing a social media presence is developing content. There are lots of ways to think about content, but when you are at the beginning of your social media journey it is useful to divide your content into 2 types.

“In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience,” says Ian Lamont. Any marketing or sales professional knows this to be true, but how do we get there?

Did you know that the human attention span is decreasing? 8 seconds. That is all you have to create a connection and grab attention during a presentation introduction.

In its purest sense, a presentation is the act of making information publicly available. Today, the world is the audience and electronic presentations are the delivery vehicle. A simple web search for "online presentations" lists over 104,000,000 results. Technology has become the presenter and the presentation.

A few years ago, I had to explain myself whenever I mentioned “data visualization” in conversation. These days, most of us are familiar with the term and know that if we have to communicate with data, our visualizations have to be on point. So do we all need to get degrees in computer science, graphic design or data analysis to create stellar visualizations?

This is it! The moment you’ve all been waiting for. In my first three posts in this series, I shared the first 9 of 10 PowerPoint Pet Peeves I’ve collected over years of collecting data from my students. And now the moment has arrived to reveal number 1! Here it is!