Monday, October 20, 2014
The 5th Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint is the easiest
platform to use. It is the de-facto software for presentation most businesses
use. However, many people are still unaware of its full potential. (Attend our seminar to
master the art of creating and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations.)
Here, I am going to present
to all my readers the 5 immutable tips you can use to enhance the effectiveness
of your PowerPoint presentations (with a step-by-step approach).
Now, let’s first have a look
at #Tip 5. In case you missed the #Tip 4, it’s here.
#Trick
5- Turn Square Images
Into Custom Shapes
We all know how important it
is to use photos in your marketing (maybe you downloaded our recent stock photo
collection, perhaps?), but do you know how to customize them? Make them fit
into your favorite shapes in PowerPoint -- all with just one click.
Crop-to-Shape:
1) Click on the image and
select 'Format' in the options bar.
2) Choose 'Crop,' then 'Mask
to Shape,' and then choose your desired shape. Ta-da! Custom-shaped photos.
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The 4th Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint is the easiest
platform to use. It is the de-facto software for presentation most businesses
use. However, many people are still unaware of its full potential. (Attend our seminar to
master the art of creating and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations.)
Here, I am going to present
to all my readers the 5 immutable tips you can use to enhance the effectiveness
of your PowerPoint presentations (with a step-by-step approach).
Now, let’s first have a look
at #Tip 4. In case you missed the #Tip 3, it’s here.
Trick
4#- Having trouble
aligning all your items at the right place? Here’s the key!
You can manually try to line
up your images, but we all know how that works out. You're trying to make sure
all of your objects hang out in the middle of your slide, but when you drag
them there, it still doesn't look quite right. Get rid of your guessing game
and let PowerPoint work its magic with this trick.
How
to align objects to each other-
1) Select all objects by
holding down 'Shift' while clicking on them.
2) Select 'Arrange' in the
top options bar, then choose 'Align or Distribute.'
3) Choose the type of
alignment you'd like.
How
to align objects to the slide-
1) Select all objects by
holding down 'Shift' while clicking on them.
2) Select 'Arrange' in the
top options bar, then choose 'Align or Distribute.'
3) Select 'Align to Slide.'
4) Select 'Arrange' in the
top options bar again, then choose 'Align or Distribute.'
5) Choose the type of
alignment you'd like.
Click here to discover The 4th
Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations.
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The 3rd Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint is the easiest
platform to use. It is the de-facto software for presentation most businesses
use. However, many people are still unaware of its full potential. (Attend our seminar to
master the art of creating and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations.)
Here, I am going to present
to all my readers the 5 immutable tips you can use to enhance the effectiveness
of your PowerPoint presentations (with a step-by-step approach).
Now, let’s first have a look
at #Tip 3. In case you missed the #Tip 2, it’s here.
Trick
3#- Having
trouble with pesky background problems? Save only the slide components
One of my clients wanted to
make a presentation for a brand. However, he was facing trouble when he tried
to save every slide as an image. Doing this he found unwanted background colors
and other background problems. Hence, it deterred the process of making
versatile images in the PowerPoint presentation. I suggested this tip and it
worked well!
Save
as image-Follow the steps below:
1) Select all items by
holding 'Shift' while clicking on the items.
2) Do right click; select
'Grouping' & then 'Group.'
3) Do right click on the entire
group and then choose 'Save as Picture.' Boom, no white space at the back!
Click here to discover The 4th
Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations.
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The 2nd Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint is the easiest
platform to use. It is the de-facto software for presentation most businesses
use. However, many people are still unaware of its full potential. (Attend our seminar to
master the art of creating and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations.)
Here, I am going to present
to all my readers the 5 immutable tips you can use to enhance the effectiveness
of your PowerPoint presentations (with a step-by-step approach).
Now, let’s first have a look
at #Tip 2. In case you missed the #Tip 1, it’s here.
#Tip
2- Having trouble
making everyone understand your presentation’s theme? Use the Slide Master
Many have complained about
how difficult it is to have everyone on same page. For instance, many of my
colleagues expressed difficulty to get the marketing team understand the core
theme or idea while developing slide shares for a brand. Well, here’s the key
to let your branding commence without any hassles.
The
Slide Master! Follow the below steps-
1) Choose 'Themes' on top
navigation bar.
2) Click 'Edit Master on far
right, then click 'Slide Master.'
3) After making changes of your
choice, click 'Close Master.' Now all your current as well as future slides will
use the template you’ve selected. (This will make it easy for everyone
concerned to understand the core theme or idea of your presentation easily!)
Click here to discover The 3rd
Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations.
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The 1st Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint is the easiest
platform to use. It is the de-facto software for presentation most businesses
use. However, many people are still unaware of its full potential. (Attend our seminar to
master the art of creating and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations.)
Here, I am going to present
to all my readers the 5 immutable tips you can use to enhance the effectiveness
of your PowerPoint presentations (with a step-by-step approach).
Let’s first have a look at Tip
1.
#Tip
1- Having trouble with
distorted images? Get your background customized!
Have you ever felt the pain
of creating an infographic and then it does not fit correctly in the slide’s
default size? Probably yes. Now you can easily unhinge yourself from such
clutches of PowerPoint slides by embracing customized background of your choice.
To
change the background size, follow the steps below-
1) On the slide’s top-left
corner, select 'File.'
2) Choose 'Page Setup.'
3) Type in the required height
as well as width of the background you need. Click 'OK.'
4) Click 'OK' again as the
dialogue box appears.
5) There it is, your customized
background is ready!
Note-
It’s good to resize your slides prior to adding any objects, otherwise your
objects will appear distorted.
Click here to discover The 2nd
Immutable Tip for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
How To Identify and Strengthen The Financial Benefits of Your Solution?
Take
help-
There’s no need to reinvent
the wheel. Take help from your sales representatives and marketing teams for
existing ROI case studies, calculators, graphs or other related material to get
started.
Keep
it easy-
The proposal should be compelling
as well as easily understandable. I recommend creating a spreadsheet containing
maximum 7-15 rows. Above this limit, it becomes confusing to anyone except the
most technical buyers.
Attain
an agreed analysis-
Both parties must co-author
see eye-to-eye on the potential financial benefits. The analysis need not be perfect,
nor should it be binding. However, it
does need to estimate the financial benefit to give your buyer a clear understanding
of the magnitude of the benefit of your exclusive solution.
Consider
all the possible scenarios-
This refers to considering
all the possible worst scenarios. It helps to enhance your value proposition
which is the value created from your solution. You’re able to enhance your
solution’s value proposition by examining the entire “pain chain” from the
buyer’s perspective. This pain chain
refers to the all the possible chain of incidents or events which may occur if
things go wrong.
Illustration-
For instance, in future
there can be a missed shipment of auto components to a supplier. As a result
the supplier may fail to provide the required components to the respective auto
company thus causing a rippling effect.
However, even in such
adverse scenarios, you give the buyer an assurance of a back-up plan which will
prevent the client from the ripple effect. For instance, in the same example,
if the supplier has multiple suppliers of the same components then there won’t
be any such hassles!
This kind of approach
will take you a long way in building a credible, trusted and valuable client
base which will act as a rich source of revenues for any business!
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The 2nd Immutable Rule Of Sales Negotiation To Remember
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After several years of
working around sales negotiation, I have come to realize 2 essential rules of
sales negotiation which I want to share with you.
In this article, I am going
to reveal the 2nd immutable rule of sales negotiation. You can
browse through the 1st immutable rule of sales negotiation here.
Note-
This
is also applicable to all kinds of business negotiations other than sales
negotiation.
After reading this article
which includes easy-to-understand illustrations you’ll be able to achieve a
win-win negotiation deal!
#Law
2- Knowing the financial benefit of your
solution-
Unawareness of the financial
benefit that your solution will provide to the other negotiating party will put
you in a defensive situation. It will make you the underdog thus forcing to
defend your price by offering discounts to enhance value. However, no
negotiating party whether in sales negotiation or other type of negotiation would
enjoy being in such a vulnerable position.
Hence, it’s essential to determine
your solution’s financial benefit to prevent yourself from such losing situations.
Remember- Numbers
talk. When you know the financial benefit you’ll be able to achieve a win-win
deal by driving a compelling reason of profitability to both the parties.
So
how is this done? You’ll understand as you read forward.
How to
present one’s financial benefit of a solution?
There are 2 proven
methods of conveying a solution’s financial value which you can use-
#Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) –
Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) conveys, “My solution will cost less in terms of usage and implementation
than the competitors.”
TCO focuses on cost factor
and not your solution’s unique value which it creates. Now there’s a catch! You
do not want your buyers to compare your solutions in terms of TCO. This may put
you in a situation where you no longer compete based on the value proposition
of your solution.
Hence, the buyer will make
decisions based on cost. And the best manner to enhance the TCO is by lowering
the price further, a situation nobody wants to be in.
#Return on Investment (ROI)-
ROI terms to be a better
option as it focuses the attention on the value proposition. By quoting a
yearly or a monthly benefit to buyer, you assure him a payback within certain period
of time. This is much more appealing due to the predictable and measurable
factors it consists of.
Illustration-
Say your solution helps the
client to save or earn $25,000 every month. Your total solution cost is $100,000.
Therefore, the payback period is 4 months. In this way you present a measurable
solution which the client will always feel safer to go with!
The major salient feature of the ROI system is that you’re able to convey
how much value will be created through your solution over a period of time.
This shortens the sales or business cycle. The buyer actually realizes the
gains after a period of time which makes sense to any negotiating party.
Note- If
you show your solution’s ability to give a payback within less than 1 year, the
buyer will usually allot your funds from his operating budget than the capital
budget. This requires fewer approvals and shortens the business cycle. Also
it’s easier to close!
Stay tuned for my next
article on How To Identify and Strengthen The Financial Benefits of Your
Solution?
Till then you can browse
through useful business and management related articles to get useful tips to enhance
your business related skills and management efficiency.
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