Get great design fast with presentation design kits
While a strong narrative is critical to any great presentation, so is another ingredient: design. In fact, it’s been shown that presentations containing visual aids are 43% more persuasive than those without. However, there’s one issue: not all designs are created equal. With around 30 million PowerPoint presentations created daily, there’s no doubt you’ve seen […]
Tips to amp up your PowerPoint
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted an information management proposal to his manager at CERN, describing his vision of what would later become the world wide web. The feedback he received was a scribble with only these words: “vague, but exciting”. How often have we been at the receiving end of similar exciting concepts, but dismissed […]
Design a pitch deck
Pitch decks were where we made our first break, earning coverage in TechCrunch “SketchDeck Turns Terrible Slide Decks Into Beautiful Presentations”. Almost four thousand decks later, it’s still our most popular service. Whether you need a slick pitch for sales, keynote speeches, fundraising or an important meeting, SketchDeck is your go-to partner for all your […]
Design tips for marketers: presentations and decks
In yet another sign that the future is digital, presenting work in-person is happening less and less. But there are trade-offs–connecting virtually via the tubes and wires of the internet is an entirely different ballgame than meeting face-to-face. Among its many impacts, the lack of in-person interaction puts added pressure on the material to make […]
SketchDeck for ON24 webinars
Imagine if Batman and Superman finally put aside their differences and teamed up… simply put, it just wouldn’t be fair to other superheroes. While SketchDeck and ON24 aren’t joining forces to fight crime (at least not yet), we have gotten together to form a best-in-the-business 1-2 punch when it comes to webinars. After all, a […]
How to pitch investors on Zoom
As Steve Barsh, Managing Partner of Dreamit Ventures, once said: You only have a few minutes to catch an investor’s attention. Businesses everywhere have been impacted by the 2020 global pandemic, and in the time of COVID-19, the concept of funding is daunting for many founders. With social distancing and quarantines in effect around the […]
Data sheets, fact sheets, sell sheets: The many uses for a one-pager
Picture this: you offer an excellent service or product, one so spectacular that you could dedicate an entire book to it. You could, but that doesn’t mean you should. On a good day, a person’s average attention span is five to twenty minutes. That’s right–even those who love you, such as friends and family, would […]
A visual history of previous recession advertising and what we can learn from it
On April 14th, the International Monetary Fund warned that the global economy could face the worst recession since the 1930s. Just a few months prior, the IMF had projected a 3.3% increase for 2020–but as COVID-19 spread, the projection sharply shifted to a 3% decline. The good news? This isn’t the first time the world […]
12 simple PowerPoint tips and tricks to save you time
Creating a PowerPoint presentation is an exciting, but often time-consuming experience. Because of this, it can be tempting to delay it until the last minute, then scramble to finish your latest pitch deck in the final hours before the deadline. Fortunately, it doesn’t need to be like that. You can prevent last-minute panic by following […]
Google Slides vs PowerPoint: How to choose what’s right for you
The great businessman, David Ogilvy, famously said, “Most people use PowerPoint like a drunk uses a lamppost–for support rather than for illumination.” Although that statement may seem a bit harsh, many of the world’s top entrepreneurs, including Jeff Bezos, admit that they avoid PowerPoint like the plague. For years, PowerPoint was everyone’s go-to when it […]
