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It's Time You Upgrade Your Zoom Background

How many Zoom meetings do you have per week? If your answer is more than 5, it's time to invest seriously in the background you show...

How to Create a Custom Color Palette From any Image

Have you ever wanted to create a custom color palette from one inspirational image, which you could use consistently throughout your...

The Three Ingredients You Need For a Persuasive Presentation

What three ingredients will make your presentation more persuasive? You might have heard of Aristotle’s three appeals of argument. As you...

How To Test Your Presentation

Absolutely nothing beats the effectiveness of testing your presentation with a sample of your intended audience. Their perspective is...

An Easy Way to Improve Your Presentation's Ending

Many presentations end with a call to action. This is already well known as a best practice and it is, indeed, really important to...

Re-Prioritize Your Internal Presentations

Many organizations put significant time and care into their external presentations. Often, that's because these seem more directly tied...

3 Signs You Need a Professional Corporate PowerPoint Template

Are presentations continuously suboptimal in your company? Are they: Inconsistent? Boring? Too long? Not on brand? Here are the top 3...

How to Crop Photos Into Custom Shapes in PowerPoint

Ever wondered how professional PowerPoint templates have their photos cropped into beautiful and varied shapes like these? Here are four...

3 Minimum Design Steps, If You're In A Presentation Design Crunch

Ever had just an hour to design a crucial presentation? What should you focus on if you’re rushed and can’t do custom slide design? Here...

5 Items You Need in Your Corporate PowerPoint Templates

In my line of work, I see all five of the following items missing or not set according to best practices when I redo or upgrade corporate...