Harish K Saini

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 […]

Business-presentations and Multimedia are now intertwined and interconnected. You take away the different tools of multimedia from these presentations, they become insipid, dull and unexciting. In fact, increasing use of these tools has taken different types of presentations into a different level. PowerPoint, Adobe Flash and others have injected a new life into presentation-methods and

However technically advanced and innovative a presentation is, if it doesn’t strike a chord in the target-audiences, your goals, statistical or otherwise, will be unfulfilled. Here lies the key to have an engaging element which may be subtle and has to be placed in the presentation on the base of creativeness. Your presentation should give

We live in the age of overflowing facts. Information is spilling over to each other at different places. Even presentations are not untouched with the overlapping of facts and details. There is a deluge of textual contents. There has been a cascade of same images from the stocks at different sites. Visuals bear the same

Voice-modulation is the basic quality a voice-over artist must have. When the alteration of his voice-pitch charms the audiences, when different voice-modifications convey the real emotion to them and when the clarity of his voice transports to them clearly the essence of the presentation, the artist will have reached his goal. Modulation in voice is

PPT-designing comes in multiple packages and that creates amazement and confusion in a lot of people. I had a meeting with the people of one big company last month. The company was represented by two bright senior managers who were obsessed with their company’s brand. They constantly bragged about having the highest number of branches

Speech-presentations are made to communicate a subject, matter, issue, purpose or initiative, pass on some specific knowledge on some topic or generate a debate on something specific. Replete with lucid points and their coherent arrangement, verbal presentations extract instant reactions from audiences. Speeches, erected on methodical preparation according to the nature, character and background of the

Visuals, images, videos and animations, have become integral ingredients in multimedia presentations. “Seeing is Believing”, as they say, is correct for presentations, especially flash-based presentations. Whatever first visual appears on the screen, carves a certain imprint on audiences’ minds. And if all the visuals in the presentation possess a coherent presence and are synchronized with

A great textual content has a huge traction among your prospective clients. Even in this age of aggressive and persuasive marketing milieu, textual content still has this huge value. Whether it is PPT or flash-based presentation, words reign supreme. Words can define your business in the simplest of manners. And that’s why, we are witnessing

A clear and impactful voice is a major component of multimedia presentations. With his intonations and modulations, a voice-over artist imparts the required energy, vivacity and flow to the presentations. Accurate pronunciation, thought-out pauses and fascinating tone of the voice-over artist appeals to one and all. In a way, presentations depend a lot on the

In this content-flooded world, it’s getting increasingly difficult to trigger interest in audiences for something. Textual contents are getting repetitive and boring. But hope lies in imagination and creativity. Creative and imaginative content still does wonders as far as garnering attention from the audiences is concerned. Weaving everything in a story is the key to

A voice-over is an important component in the multimedia’s mechanism. Now-a-days multimedia presentations are many and varied. Presentations with a voice-over are certainly more effective in transporting their message to target-audiences. An apt voice makes a direct connect with the audiences for sure. And the voice-narration with the matching visuals becomes a lethal combination for

Presentations are an effective tool to promote business, products and services. They contain several features and ingredients making them striking and efficacious. Animation is one of those vital and conspicuous ingredients. In this age of time-crunch and digital revolution, animations have gained more worth in different presentations. Highly descriptive: Through an animation-video, you can present your

A presentation is a combination of so many aspects and features. They all become congruent to make it successful. The font for the texts in a PPT or any presentation carries the entire mood and sense of the real core of the presentation. Words sculpted in a specific font must match the final message of

PPTs are a great medium to connect to the target-audiences and carve an understanding in them to germinate a business-relationship. But across societal spheres, everyone today is in a hurry and your target-audiences definitely are. So there must be a swiftness and rapidity in your PPT to make it serve well for you. You can

You develop a PPT to engage your target-audiences. You put in different elements to make it noticeable and informative. All the creativity-pursuits are to fetch the attention of the audiences. All the elements must be proportionately used and placed in sync with each other. Animation is one of those elements which you craft to facilitate

Textual matter is the soul of any presentation. A visual or image can carry an indirect message, but words in the presentation always bear the unequivocal meaning. So, while the audiences can grasp the message from visuals or images instantly, words have to be made conspicuous and eye-catching, enabling the audiences to grasp them effortlessly.

A PPT has various features and aspects. Text is a critical part apart from visuals, images, animation etc. And fitting the texts into a suitable font which maximizes their effect and emphasis in conveying the core message is another craft altogether. In fact, choosing the font and deciding its size also needs a fair bit of expertise.   Generally,

Powerpoint presentations have some limitations over flash presentations. Today businesses tend to have adobe flash presentation rather than PowerPoint. Representing a business thoughts, ideas in front of target audiences either to an investor in your company or a consumer of product- creates a need of rich graphics, audio, video, animated content in a presentation. Advantages

The dress of a person is indicative of his personality. The dress worn by him also indicates the occasion. Clothing or attire can be façade, but reveals the person and the event. Sometimes an appropriate dress changes the whole persona of a person. Oral presentations are a special event and that’s why, dress-code has to be there.    

Choosing an apt font for the texts of your presentation-slides is a significant decision as far as the extent of impact is concerned. Carving a good content in a PPT is important, but selection of an appropriate font to wrap that content is equally important, if not more. People get reluctant to use normally used fonts because they

We normally speak to a number of people through the day. We speak thousands of sentences daily. But when it comes to making a speech before an audience, one has to be circumspect in every sense. In fact, a lot of unwanted mistakes can happen during making an oral presentation. Some of them are these: 

In this age of social media channels and information-glut, you always run a risk of making your multimedia presentations tedious and dull. There is a deluge of presentations in the market and that’s why, approach, style and techniques are being found to be repetitive and monotonous. There are some mistakes you can commit to make your

Every element of a flash-based presentation has to be supporting each other. Texts, videos, images or animation, everything must be harmonized to highlight the core message of the presentation. And you can also pitch in your creativity to enhance the impact of your visual stuff. Again planning has to be perfect. There may be six

An excellent and effective PPT becomes a sum of so many well-placed and well-crafted elements. Some of them can be outlined:  Brevity is the soul of any presentation and so it is for a PPT as well. An effective PPT normally doesn’t contain more than 15-20 slides. Keeping in line with the conciseness, each slide of the PPT contains the

Apart from having a number of benefits, a Powerpoint lacks at some points from the perspective of a perfect multimedia-tool. No denying the ppt format is flexible allowing an easy procedure of changes in the content as and when required, it is presenter-friendly and describes the topic in an abridged manner, but a deep insight into it reveals a

However good your presentation-material may be, however attractive your business-offer may be and however receptive your audiences may be, if your presenter makes mistakes, audiences may not get that interested in your offer and you stand a chance to lose your prospective clients. Lacking engagement: If your presenter just goes on rattling off the facts of your business one after another without

Making a corporate presentation of products and services for prospective clients is an intricate task. Specialized skills for various integral ingredients are the utmost requisite. Research on different subjects like similarity of your products or services in the market, competitive analysis, scope of your offerings, target-clients etc. plays a pivotal role to shape your presentation.

Presentation of your brand in your PPT gets reflected in its collective impact. When you hire experts to make the PPT for you, you pass on to them the specific instructions vis-à-vis your brand. These instructions keep your brand-identity intact. And that’s why, you elaborate to them enough points, facilitating them in keeping your brand steady