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The Mantra to Successful PowerPoint Slides

Your PowerPoint slides are only as good as the message you have to deliver. Without a strong message, slides are excess baggage. One has to remember that a PowerPoint presentation is a visual aid for your message. To craft powerful PPT slides, first work on your message.  Thanks to the ever so famous TED Talks where hundreds of speakers come together to deliver their best speech, the mantra of a successful talk is out in the open. Presenters from all fields are sharing valuable tips that can help other people to grow. The power of knowledge is being realized like never before. Afterall “ Power Is gained by sharing knowledge, not hoarding it.” So why are the speakers of these TED Talks considered to be an inspiration? What is the secret behind their successful presentation? Well according to the curator of TED talks Chris Anderson there are three main points that make or break a presentation- the vision behind the idea, the narrative and how passionate the speaker i

9 Reasons Why Every Business is Blind without a Roadmap PPT

Have you ever jumped from a crashing airplane assembling the parachute on the way down?  Nah! Even, I haven’t. To be frank never even thought of doing it.  However, starting a new business feels just like this and this feeling is mutual among all the new entrepreneurs stepping into the world of business. Maybe because each and every business is based on trials and errors. Nobody can predict the success of their business beforehand. One has to jump irrespective of their fear of falling. This is where a Roadmap PPT comes in handy. I know what you must be thinking. Roadmaps!  What will they do for my business?. They are simply some ugly roads with boring colors, just not what my business wants. This is what I used to think as a layman. Roadmaps are just ‘Roads’ and ‘Maps’. But NO. It’s much more than that. It is your document of vision, the document of action and blueprint for success.  “We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but s

How To Make Your Images Pop Using 3D Effect in PowerPoint

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3D is the biggest Hollywood trend this season. Ranging from Jame Cameron’s Avatar which transported us to a whole new and beautiful world of 3D to Avengers: Infinity War, it is anywhere and everywhere. So, what are these 3D images? 3D images are nothing but illusionary images as they trick our brain into believing that there is a gap between the foreground and the background. Obviously, the image is flat but due to how our brain perceives it, it appears to be 3 dimensional. Why do we use these in our presentations? 3D can help make your presentations sizzle rather than fizzle by adding that X factor which is missing in most of the presentations. Since these 3D images are so persuasive, let us learn how to create these in PowerPoint and use in our PPT Templates . Step 1- Select good Images To create that 3D effect, we want some good pictures that meet these two basic criteria- High Contrast - The background and the object in the image should have con