Harish K Saini

11 Key Points of a Pitching Presentation, Specifically for Investors When you craft a Pitching Presentation specifically for investors, you must bear in mind that they are the people who generally are inundated with Pitching Presentations. So your presentation must be innovative and different to suddenly capture their interest. We already have elaborated on the basics […]

A Pitching Presentation must have a rhythm in the presentation of facts and figures. Coherence in depiction of details facilitates swift absorption of the whole story. Your Pitching Presentation must have a specific alignment in building the curiosity-quotient vis-à-vis your business. While it is very pertinent to embed all the essential requirements of a Pitching

A Pitching Presentation, which you generally prepare for your prospective investors, customers, co-founders or business-partners, may be a minutely detailed portrayal of your business and its finer aspects, but it has to be concise and compact for sure for better results in terms of its impact-value. Empowered with some fundamental facets, it can make an

Pitching Presentation is a short but effective medium to communicate facts about your business. If prepared properly, it has a deep impact on viewers. You prepare a Pitching Presentation generally either for an in-person interaction with your target-clients or an on-line engagement, though it is so effective way to convey the details of businesses that

Seeing is Believing, an old adage, but it is perfect today even in this internet-driven world. And that’s why, information and data supported by photos, videos, animation or graphics become impactful in presentations. Now-a-days, businesses consume a myriad of figures and statistics. In fact, they thrive on different figures and statistics. A well-shown statistical diagram

A story goes through different stages. Every stage generates emotions. The greater the emotional connect, the better the involvement! And involvement extracts business. In a nut-shell, if it suits to your imagination, a suggestion to a storyline in a PPT carves space in audiences’ minds and hearts definitely. You want to present a number of

PPT is all about expecting what your audiences would want to know, how they would want to know or how much they would want to know. You imagine their queries about your project, products or services and then shape the contents with the help of different features and ingredients. When you know your target-audiences, you

PPT is a powerful medium and businesses across the spectrum have benefitted from it. But its efficacy increases by a fair margin when you as a presenter compliment it with your speech at the start and end. You can even communicate to your target-audiences through e-mail or any other mode of communication in advance. When

If you squeeze and review all the PPTs, you would find them a sum-total of textual matter and visual contents. In the age of decreasing attention-span, words are getting diminished from slides and images are getting increasingly relevant. We are naturally inclined to grasp images better than words: We humans are naturally programmed to grasp

A PPT with its conventional features is in itself a powerful medium to get a message across to target-audiences. Textual matter, images, designing with an accurate selection of font, size, colour-combination etc. and various other nuances make it an impactful communication-package. Used sparingly, Videos, audios and animations can also add the required weight, reliability and

PPTs have been a tried-and-tested formula for business-summary, report and information. So much so that they are frequently called Business Presentations as well. But previously you often got these Business Presentations or PPTs laden with prolonged textual content. People wanted to say everything on every slide, let alone the full presentation. The glut of information

PPTs may contain a number of slides, but all of them jointly project a unified core message. They may bear different textual, visual or graphical contents, but the crux of the whole presentation is always integrated. So the slide-switch or navigation becomes an ability of paramount importance. Your audiences are fixed on one idea and

Presentations in business-corridors are awash with visual contents today. Every day words on PPT-slides are getting reduced, visuals and supportive features are gaining importance. Keeping in line with the sense that images or pictures convey the meaning which is more comprehensible and memorable, PPT-designers are increasingly relying on visual features. Appropriate graphics empower a PPT

We humans are naturally programmed to receive visual information more swiftly. We become more receptive to facts which are amalgamated with supporting graphics. That’s why, info-graphical presentations are getting more popular these days. Pictures, images, graphs, charts and diagrams convey your content effectively. Your audiences don’t have to read word-content and then understand the message,

People across the business-spectrum are always on the hunt to showcase their business-numbers. They try to insert every bit of information related to their businesses. Summary of various reports and analyses gets mention in presentations. Growth of your industry, description of products or services, relationship with existing clients, access to prospective clients, fresh alliances as

PPTs are constructed to garner business. But if intelligently crafted, they can be massively entertaining. Facts, figures and data can be inserted engagingly. Aptly presented in a wrap of story, different statistics and data send out convincing message for target-audience. If these statistics bring sometimes surprise and sometimes awe on audiences’ faces, then they can

Every presentation has a specific purpose. And based on those underlying purposes, presentations can be classified into different categories. The team or individual must have the understanding of the purpose before embarking on the preparation of a presentation. Descriptive presentations: Descriptive presentations contain details regarding products or services of a company, fine points on different

Many agencies and professionals demand the price of a PPT as per the number of slides, some ascertain their pricing as per the inputs, some on the number of features going to be used and some on the number of people going to be involved. So, there isn’t any defined or prescribed costing to prepare

PPTs nothing but transport your ideas, concepts and offerings in an illustrative way. Explicatory basics of PPTs make them the most powerful medium to carry facts and figures. Undoubtedly, keeping the audience involved and motivated right through is a challenge for sure. But, you can counter this challenge by keeping few points in mind: First

Lack of the appeal in a PPT can have ramifications in a way that you may not get the business from your clients you want. If the audience doesn’t get involved and become inquisitive, all the exercise gets futile. Your ideas and concepts remain to you only, no one buys them. That’s why it’s necessary

When you prepare a PowerPoint presentation, you intend to establish or extend your business in a planned way. You try to get everything right in a PPT, whether it’s content, images, videos, font of the content or animations. But if you are flexible and aware of using some software, you increase the effect of your

Well begun is half done, everyone agrees with it. A good, impactful impression at the beginning makes an abiding memory. When you are making an oral presentation, this fact becomes all the more important. A powerful start sets the real tone and tenor for the remainder of the presentation. You can pack a punch to

A verbal presentation is a great tool to establish and extend your business. But a random extempore must be avoided. A full preparation with multiple rehearsals is what makes a speech attractive and purposive. Yes, a scattered improvisation does a world of good in achieving results, but the use of that improvisation must be astute

Presentations carrying dry facts, figures and data are merely an unappealing package of information. More often than not, they falter to make a connect with the audience. If they don’t stimulate thoughts in the audience, the purpose gets defeated. But a little bit of story, a little bit of emotion with those facts and figures makes

Voice is the greatest of assets humans have. Voice makes your personality and becomes your individuality as well. You are well defined by your voice. And in making presentations, voice becomes the most effective tool for you. You can mould your presentation as and when required on the base of your voice-modulations. A good voice

People are busier these days than ever. Our attention-span is shrinking faster than we can imagine. Therefore, presentations have to be made thinking all these pros and cons. When you are ready to show your presentation to your prospective clients, you must know their minds are occupied with recent emails, facebook uploads, what’s app –interactions

Presentations must not contain big details or every minute aspect of your products or services. Your products or services may be amazingly affordable or exceptionally useful, too much of related facts, data or particulars can complicate your target-audience’s minds, subsequently hampering your sale-prospect. A simple slice of information, which triggers a curiosity in the audience-members

Emotional shadows in your speech or presentations make them powerful and more connecting. In these times of better communication-tools, mediums and channels, you can stay ahead of the curve only by enriching your content with subtle emotional suggestions. When you make a speech or prepare a presentation, you aim to get ready your target-audience in

Sales-presentations of any kind, PPT or Flash-based, only revolve around difficulty or trouble and its elimination through a clear-cut way out. A prospective customer’s difficulty or problem with a product or service or the lack of it and its answer in a new or improved version of product or service is displayed in a sales-presentation.

A good presenter always stands at the same wave-length with his audience. He catches their mindset in the first few seconds of his presentation. Smarter ones catch them even before the start of the presentation by reading into their body-language. There may be few tricks to learn them in order to wrap your topic with

When a presentation shapes into a stimulating and disturbing idea or thought for your prospective clients, then there is a strong possibility that they would be motivated to take action to get on board with you. But to take them to a decision-making stage, you will have to steer them through a plethora of internal

A vision is a clear imagination of what you want to achieve through the presentation for your business. A vision is how your presentation would appear when it is carved into a final product. A vision is how your presentation would contain your goals and plans. Starting with a vision will not let you go

If you present your business or company and your objectives in a plain and simple manner in your presentation, your presentation will be termed unequivocally successful. But easier said than done, this plain and simple presentation must contain some attention-grabbing features to highlight the basic information. Presenting all the aspects of your business in a

Making eye-contact with audience is a time-tested and powerful trick to engage them while speaking to them. The moment you see someone in his eyes, he automatically thinks he has to respond to you through his eyes and you need to be responded then and there. And just by pulling him to respond to you,

There are ways to ensure the success of presentations and there are ways to spoil your effort. If you don’t stay away from these 7 elements at the time of making the presentation, you are bound to fail to accomplish your objective through its impact because there will be no impact. 1. An excuse or

“Well begun is half done”, is a tradition-based saw which has all the sense. You engage someone with your personality, behavior or deeds in first few minutes, this is the proven fact. If someone has liked your persona and character in the beginning, it’s almost certain that he would behave with you accordingly in the

All the indications that your presentation is not working or will not fetch you results, come from your audiences and more specifically, from their demeanour, gestures and physical signs of involvement or the lack of them. But, 5 definite signs can be summarized as such: Frozen appearance: Keeping an eye on the audience is very

Presentation is generally dependent on its contents. But if you bind audiences with the feel of curiosity and amazement before and during the presentation, your delivery goes to a higher level. The aura all around carves the space in the minds of audiences for the message of the presentation to be fitted in perfectly. You

A fascinating and appropriate presentation elevates the entire content to a level where the involvement of audience becomes a certain fact. But this presentation needs a solid groundwork and preparation. Elements of groundwork can be defined in pieces: The prime part of your preparation is the deep belief you bear in the value of your

Feeling jittery or nervy before speaking to a group is alright and normal for anyone of us, but it should not extend to you being frightened or scared. Making a speech on some topic is a special event and the significance of the event makes everyone a little bit anxious. But that anxiousness can be

You may be running a good and profitable business, your team may pitch in with some tidbits of presentation, but making a professional presentation is altogether a different exercise. Creation of presentation is an art: Outsourcing your presentation to an agency ensures a pitch which would be tailor-made for your business. The agency-people work regularly with

6 tips in signing up a designer for your presentation Author: Harish K Saini A business-alliance needs scrupulous planning. Even striking a deal with a designer to have him on board for the designing in your presentation requires elaborate clarification on different issues. 1. Evaluation of previous assignments: Judging someone’s work becomes easier when you

55.  Steve Jobs’s presentations had 8 striking facets Steve Jobs will always be remembered for his presentation-skills. He was a non-pareil entrepreneur, had an acute business-acumen and believed in incisive planning. But his presentations are watched over and over again by people from across the globe to detect the inherent skills. His presentations were always

Importance of Images in Presentations An Image is worth a thousand words. When we think of presentations, certain facets spring up in our minds. Precise pictures and videos support different facts, data, and texts to make them etched in audiences’ minds. A large set of facts can be portrayed in one related image or photo,

A case-study is by and large a story. And stories woven in presentations have always worked magic in terms of their impact. We have highlighted the significance of a story in presentations in our blog namely, Prepare your presentation in a story.  A case-study presents the details which a client has experienced in reality and the

Choosing an agency to prepare the presentation for you is a difficult task. The market has a myriad of agencies which claim the proficiency in the field. And this makes the choice all the more difficult.  AssesEnterprisent of body of work: First of all, go through the agency’s body of work and check out the

A multimedia presentation is a concise visual expression of your message. Your pitching becomes an easy communication in the shape of a presentation. But conciseness is the keyword. The more your presentation gets far from compactness and conciseness, the more it loses its efficaciousness and neatness. Crux at start: Any sort of presentation must comprise

3 marks of a successful presentation Author: Harish K Saini Any kind of presentation is constructed to fetch summarily one aim and that is to encourage audiences to take a specific action, buy a product or service, join business or join any initiative. Apart from varied multimedia tools and elements and their proportionate use, three

Motivating audiences to take a specific action is the ultimate goal of your presentation. Making them believe in you and your offerings so much so that they come on board with you is the real objective of your presentation. And so, a presentation has to be complete in thought-provoking in every manner. You put ingredients