Question

"Pitching Your Own Win" Please respond to the following: Realty tycoons Ryan Graham and Justin Seeby use presentation tools to market, pitch, and “seal the deal” with clients for the commercial and residential properties they sell. Share with your instructor and peers your thoughts on the following: What do you think are the most important do’s and don’ts when building presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint? For example, font size is important so that your audience can read what is on the slides. (For reference, go back to TestOut and review Section 4.1.2 Best Practices in Design.) Once you have posted your response, respond to at least one of your peers and share your thoughts on their ideas for building presentations.

Answer 1

For building presentations on Microsoft PowerPoint, the most possible Do’s and Don’ts with all ideas are listed as under:

Do’s:

1. Knowing the audience: The information that is used in the presentation should be structured and designed well so that the audiences get to know and respond to them accordingly.   

2. Correct organizing of the information: The information that is required to put in the slides should be concise in length and should be clearly sound so that the sentences in the slides should look proper. It should not be more than 2-3 sentences per slide.

3. Legible font: The theme font’s types should be Arial or Times New Roman with font size 12-14 in the body of the sentences and in the main heading it should be 24-48. It will make the look of the slides clear and readable to audiences.   

4. Putting visual elements: Graphs are sometimes required to be put in the presentation to make a clear understanding of some statistics; it should correctly organize either through image or clearly drawn using some tools to make the presentation more creative and presentable.   

5. Summary at the end: The complete presentation has required a summary at the end which gives a clear approach to the audience to understand any missing points. It is necessary to put a creative summary at the end of the presentation to make it clear to audiences.

  

Don‘ts:

1. Everything on a single slide: Putting a particular topic on a single slide is not desirable as the length of the writing becomes long that are not properly readable by the audiences. It should be avoided and should be written by taking 2-3 slides for mentioning the concept using bullet points.  

2. Use of unnecessary transition or sound: Unnecessary transition and sound are not allowed in the presentation. As it becomes a negative sound effect the audiences who will watch the power point presentation. It should be one or two depending on the slides.

3. Wrong color code combination and fonts: Improper color code creates the unmatched combination of the power point presentation and it makes them look odd to readable the fonts. This will create a negative impact on the audiences to read the powerpoint properly. The color should not be bright it should comprise the light color that soothes the audience eye.

4. Proper use of generic graphics: The graphics using for representation to represent any particular information in form of images. The images should be well designed and relevant to the power point topics, otherwise, it will create a negative impact on the audiences.

These are some of the basic ideas that are required to build up and follow to design an effective powerpoint presentation that meets the all possible factors to make audience understanding much clear and focused on the important aspects that should be utilized to make it look creative.