Online Christmas Card Maker
Introducing Presentation Helper’s new free online christmas card maker.
This is a free-to-use tool to create your own personalised chrsitmas, birthday and valentine cards to send to friends, family and work colleagues via e-mail.
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A really easy way to spice up your images in PowerPoint is to pop them into a photo frame. This has - until now - required you to have a good working knowledge of Adobe PhotoShop to create the effect.
We have created a range of photo frames - in both vector and image format - to make your presentations shine. You can download these for free. (Read more…)
4 comments 18 September 2007
Here is a simple technique to improve your presentation, speech or essay. It is the compare and contrast.
It is one of those old oratory techniques that has been used since the times of Cicero (and probably before).
A contrast (or juxtaposition) is where two viewpoints are placed close to each other for effect.
Instead of giving out a list of facts, you compare them from different angles.
Here is a memorable example. John F Kennedy wanted to encourage American citizens to become more active in helping the country.
He could have said “We all need your help” and it would have been forgotten two days later. Instead he used a contrast and said - (Read more…)
11 comments 12 September 2007
Looking to provide better navigation in your presentation? We have produced a free PowerPoint menu with built-in hyperlinks included to help you navigate around the different sections of your presentation.
You can just add your slides into the presentation and you have a nice way of navigating around. (Read more…)
2 comments 11 September 2007
The Presentation Trap: Why Making Presentations Can Cost You the Sale
In many conversations with sales professionals, I am often surprised that most get caught in the presentation trap. They spend an inordinate amount of time preparing for a razzle-dazzle presentation and often lose sight of the issues at hand.
The irony is that most of this effort is lost on customers. Presentations that are too early in complex decisions are largely a waste of time.
The advice I share with sales professionals wishing to avoid the Presentation Trap is “Don’t present”.
Conventional salespeople hate to hear this because the presentation is usually the key weapon in their sales’ arsenal. It is their security blanket, their comfort zone, and they (Read more…)
6 comments 7 September 2007
Importing flash into PowerPoint
We often get asked how to import Flash into a PowerPoint presentation, and the simple answer is, it’s not very easy.
But the good news is that there is now a great Flash to PowerPoint converter available that makes the job easy.
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One of the facilities in PowerPoint that is not available as standard is the ability to create transparent letters. So we had a go at building this for you.
And the results have been quite outstanding. (Read more…)
12 comments 4 September 2007
Multimedia presentation
A multimedia presentation differs from a normal presentation in that it contains some form of animation or media. Typically a multimedia presentation contains at least one of the following elements:
Choice of multimedia presentation technology
The first - and hardest - part is to choose the technology for your presentation. The choice comes down to two main contenders, Adobe Flash or Microsoft PowerPoint. (Read more…)
4 comments 3 September 2007Why choose a colour scheme?
Choosing the right colours for your PowerPoint presentation can be a fundamental factor in its success.
Often you may have put a rough version of your design together and can see that something is not quite right, a little time spent researching and trying out various combinations of colours may be what brings the whole thing together. (Read more…)
12 comments 30 August 2007
We have condensed all of the presentation techniques down to the most effective. Here are the Top 10 effective presentation techniques.
1. Use visual aids
Using pictures in your presentations instead of words can double the chances of meeting your objectives.
2. Keep it short and sweet
There is an old adage that said - “No one ever complained of a presentation being too short.” Nothing kills a presentation more than going on too long. (Read more…)
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