Knock Knock Bang

These 5 presentation tips will punctuate your point and dazzle your audience.

Your Powerpoint or Keynote may be your first impression. Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer
and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the WordPress website you didn’t know to
ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the
Wordpress website you didn’t know to ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

Knock Knock here. Who’s there?
Hey, I’d love your help redesigning our presenation. It looks ok now, but I think you can
clean it up a little with more graphics.
(Open the presentation, there’s more than 300 words on each slide.) What’s your
target length for the presentation?
15 slides.
How long do you expect it will take to get though the slide content?
We usually have an hour to meet with the potential investors.

You are the script. The slides are scenery.

Your Powerpoint or Keynote may be your first impression. Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer
and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the WordPress website you didn’t know to
ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the
Wordpress website you didn’t know to ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

1. Record and dictate your presentation audio.

This is the selfie of presentation design. Let’s see if you are entertained by your pitch. Chances are, you may gag a little. It’s all good, this is your first round.

2. Edit from outline to point-by-point slide format.

Your Powerpoint or Keynote may be your first impression. Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the WordPress website you didn’t know to ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the WordPress website you didn’t know to ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

3. Include powerful, image-only slides in your pitch deck.

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Knock Knock Bang is bang-up designer and developer duo in Madison, Wisconsin. We design the WordPress website you didn’t know to ask for, by surprise. You won’t know what hit you.

4. Clean up the design.

Standard Disclaimer: If you aren’t trained for design, or are the design version of tone-deaf, you’ll only get so far with these recommendations. If you are hiring a designer, stop here and let them sweep you off of your feet.

Not so sure you need a designer at this phase?

Consider the value of a positive outcome of your meeting. The greater the potential value, the more I’d encourage you to hire support to help pursuade your audience.

Consider the rarity of this opportunity. If you landed meeting with a high profile exec that you’ll likely only have one shot to win them over, invest in presentation design.

1. Keep the fonts simple.

Stick to one font family with a variety of styles, or two contrasting fonts.

2. Add margins to all of your slides.

Think of your margins as the moat to the castle. Decide what your margin is (I’d recommend the margin with to be approximately 1/8 the width of your slide from all edges. Any text which falls in the margin shall perish. The margins will be closely guarded so no text shall pass.

3. Keep the colors simple.

Pick one primary brand color, one text color, and use white text. Only if adding another color is necessary (like in a pie graph), pick a couple of secondary colors or shades.

4. Show what’s important by scaling text consistently.

So let’s get meta. This page content has hierarchy. Click here to see this page without hierarchy, and experience the difference firsthand.

5. Make sure your slide text has enough contrast.

If your audience can’t read or see the slide content from the back of the room, time to call Houston. It’s actually easy for designers to miss this important fact, if it looks great, but nobody can read it, it’s a design fail. Make sure you’re accounting for your final presentation setting – is the room a conference room, or an auditorium? The bigger the room, the more important legibility is.