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If you think about business it is about selling products and services to the buyers. So when you are planning to make a business presentation it is all about knowing your presentation topic. If you understand everything about the product or services you are selling, it can make your audience happy and more likely to buy your products or services.

To achieve this goal you need to keep your audience focused on to your presentation and keep them interesting. To make an effective presentation take time and practice, here are few tips which helps you in to creating a successful business presentation.

1) Identify your topic very well and use important phrases in your presentation:
Professional presentation expert always you important phrase and provide essential information on their slides. Make your presentation slide simple and specific to the topics with limited number of words. Don’t use more than 3 to 4 bullet lines per slide. Make your presentation slide easy to read for the audience.

2) Presentation slide layout: Layout in PowerPoint is key in making the audience focused and interested. Place your title at the top of the slide where people expect to find it. Key phrases should be used in proper order from left to right don’t overcrowd the slide with phrases keep the key phrases to 3-4. Keep the important key phrase at the top of the slide and less important at the bottom, this make audience at the back to understand the presentation better even if they are not able to see the complete slide.

3) Avoid Caps and Use simple Font: Finding the right font for your PowerPoint presentation is key while you’re present to audience. It is better to use common fonts like Ariel, Times New Roman and Verdana rather than using Script created font which looks odd on the screen. Make sure the fonts are large enough to read preferably 30pt so that everyone in the presentation room can read it easily.

4) Use light Text color and Dark Background: Having light colored text on a Dark background makes it easy to read for the audience. It also blends in with your company logo and color. Using textured and pattern design at the background of the slides can cause poor readability of the content present on the slides and another tip which I would suggest is to keep the color of the slides consistent all through the presentation.

Proper use of Images, Charts and Graphs: When you make a presentation to your business clients make sure to embed relevant photos, charts and graphs to illustrate your presentation. These additions can make your audience to be focused and make the presentation interesting for the audience; text only slides can be boring so mix the presentation with graphics and attractive illustration if possible add videos with text. Reduce the number of the slides used for the presentation too many slides can be boring to the audience as well as you can avoid the hassle of changing the slides often.

The Final tip which I suggest is to do a test of the presentation to check the spelling on the key phrases and make sure the presentation are running properly and burn that to the CD and also keep a copy of the PowerPoint viewer is also added into the CD in case the presentation computer doesn’t have a PowerPoint plug-in installed.

TJ