Many presenters make the mistake of believing that their PowerPoint is their presentation.

The truth is that people buy from people and not from PowerPoint presentations, this holds true if you are selling a product, service or ideas to colleagues.

A strange thing for PowerPoint presentation designers to say you may think, surely we should be encouraging presenters to have bigger and more flashy presentations.

A PowerPoint presentation should be used as an aid to support a presenter not as a presentation.

So why use PowerPoint?

Used correctly PowerPoint will help a presenter communicate information and ideas, it is brilliant at explaining figures and trends, as well as focusing attention and giving emphasis to topics and points.

Include still photographs of products, facilities or offices, but be careful how you use video. Don’t use it as a substitute presenter. 

If your pitch is your PowerPoint

Then do your audience a favour and just email them your slides, the out come will be the same.

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Your presentation plays back OK on your PC, but now that you have burnt it on to CD the video/audio clips no longer play. 

When you import video or audio clips into PowerPoint it just creates links from your presentation to the video/audio files. It is really important that when you burn your presentation to CD-ROM that you also burn the video/audio files on to the CD as well and that their relative postion to your PowerPoint file remains unchanged, otherwise the PowerPoint file will look for the video/audio files in the wrong place.

The easiest way to achieve this is prior to creating your presentation collect together in one folder all the video and audio files you are going to use. Then create your PowerPoint presentation in the same folder. 

When you come to burn the presentation to CD-ROM, burn the folder’s complete contents on to the CD, in that way your PowerPoint presentation will retain its relative position to your media clips and hence will know where to find them.

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