10 simple rules for awesome PowerPoint presentations

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PowerPoint presentations are now a standard business and sales tool and hence, nearly everyone at least once in their career has had to sit through a really boring or poorly prepared slide show presentation. Therefore, a recent post on HubSpot is a must read for anyone who needs to prepare a PowerPoint presentation.

HubSpot noted that Duarte Design, a Silicon Valley design shop, recently put on a slidelogy workshop which contained a wealth of useful information about putting together awesome PowerPoint presentations. From that workshop, HubSpot came up with these 10 key but simple rules for better presentations:

1. No bullets
2. Start on paper
3. The 30pt rule
4. No starbursts
5. One thought per slide
6. Time-limits, not slide-limits
7. One thought per slide
8. No logo on every slide
9. No chart junk
10. Tell a story

And as a great follow-up to this post that was written at the request of readers, HubSpot has a second post containing 17 examples of great presentations. These presentations will give you a fairly good idea as to what a great presentation design is and isn't. 

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We have а free PowerPoint templates

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Some great stuff in here. Keep up the great work.

Have you ever used prezi.com? It's a free tool, really easy to use and helps tell a story.

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Hi Chris, I did use Prezi.com once and it's pretty cool. I'd love to see that kind of interactivity built into PowerPoint. You can do it a bit with clickable links and areas but you have to get a bit geeky and there's no inherent support for that kind of navigation. PowerPoint is just so linear, man. (Nice site, by the way, I've added it to the blogroll here.)

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very well written and detailed. But all the same backdrop for presentations need to choose better. I can offer templates http://imaginelayout.com/

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Very useful tuturial, thank you, but why - NO BULLETS?

Using non standard icons will draw attention to  your presentation