The White Rabbit

You know the agenda slide, the one that makes you say, "First I am going to talk about Topic #1, and then I am going to talk about Topic #2, and then I going to talk about Topic #3, and then..."?

What if you could do a nonlinear presentation with the same slide deck? What if you could just walk into the conference room and tell your customers you can start with whatever they are most interested in? Your customers would love you for it! 

Today we go into how to make that happen in PowerPoint.

Last week, we went into things 1, 2, and 3 that you should do when making your deck "pop." Today we go into things 4, 5, and 6, including importing information from Excel, and the opportunity presented by Data Values.

Plus, there's the bonus Magical 2-Minute Tip. What if you don't have time for any of the six? What if you only have 2 minutes? This Magical 2-Minute Tip will send you into that conference room with a better deck than you have now.

Alper goes into the first things he does when someone sends him a deck that needs some love and care from a professional. To get a boring deck that looks like everyone else's, don't do these things.

Warning: If you do decide to do these things, you might actually end up with less work to do. Imagine that, a nicer deck, AND more time to attend your kid's piano recital!

Matt, inspired by a podcast he listens to regularly, decides to map out a model he uses often in his professional life, including the four steps he would give to the hypothetical client Bruce, who wants to know how to use the model to overcome a presentation problem.

The source of the inspiration:

https://2bobs.com/podcast/models-everywhere

Alper wrote a book a few years back called Presentations That Make A Difference. Don't look for the book in English yet, it currently exists in Turkish and Spanish. Today Alper goes into the book a bit, discussing why he wrote it and who he wrote it for (spoiler alert: he wrote it for one person, but who that person is is still a mystery), and Matt marvels at the effectiveness of the some of the advice in particular.

Turkish Book Link: https://kitap.kuraldisi.com/kitap-yayin/kitap/is-yonetim/fark-yaratan-sunumlar/

Spanish Book Link: https://www.amazon.es/Presentaciones-Marcan-Diferencia-Rozanes-Alkanli/dp/6250094318

Other wonderful English resources:

Slide:ology: https://www.duarte.com/books/slideology/

Duarte Books: https://www.duarte.com/resources/#books

Presentation Zen: https://www.presentationzen.com

Win Without Pitching: https://www.winwithoutpitching.com

There aren't a lot of kids who say, "Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a Presentation Designer," so most people in the presentation business come at it via seemingly random directions. Today Alper describes the winding road that got him into the business. Alper's story ranges from the highs of bringing Apple to a new country to the lows of crying in a car in a parking lot, and includes unexpected layovers like selling imported shopping baskets to grocery stores.

Having broadcast for about 5 months, Matt and Alper decide it's time to tell the audience how they got into this business, so people don't think they're just random axe murderers who showed up to talk about presentations. Up today: Matt and how he got into this business.

Alper wraps up this mini-series with a deep dive into must-have principle #6 of the entrepreneurial pitch deck: Exit, and how it is so sorely needed, and yet is lacking in almost all pitch decks.

A shout-out goes to Mathieu Carenzo, Alper's mentor in Barcelona. Mathieu is not a slide designer, but rather a business school professor, a seasoned entrepreneur and a dynamic business angel with current investments in scale-ups. This episode is about how to represent his ideas in a slide deck, and therefore his ideas are key to the construction of this episode. 

Follow Mathieu Carenzo on his website

https://www.mathieucarenzo.com

and subscribe to his YouTube channel for more videos at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4fbJOa_mNe3Z8ldMl6XJA

Alper goes further into must-have principle #5 of the entrepreneurial pitch deck: Scalability, and scalability of a particular type (hint: it's not scalability of revenue or headcount).

A shout-out goes to Mathieu Carenzo, Alper's mentor in Barcelona. Mathieu is not a slide designer, but rather a business school professor, a seasoned entrepreneur and a dynamic business angel with current investments in scale-ups. This episode is about how to represent his ideas in a slide deck, and therefore his ideas are key to the construction of this episode.

Follow Mathieu Carenzo on his website

https://www.mathieucarenzo.com

and subscribe to his YouTube channel for more videos at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4fbJOa_mNe3Z8ldMl6XJA

Alper goes further into must-have principle #4 of the entrepreneurial pitch deck: Team, and what needs to go on that slide and what is just table stakes, even though entrepreneurs seem to love putting it on there.

A shout-out goes to Mathieu Carenzo, Alper's mentor in Barcelona. Mathieu is not a slide designer, but rather a business school professor, a seasoned entrepreneur and a dynamic business angel with current investments in scale-ups. This episode is about how to represent his ideas in a slide deck, and therefore his ideas are key to the construction of this episode.

Follow Mathieu Carenzo on his website

https://www.mathieucarenzo.com

and subscribe to his YouTube channel for more videos at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4fbJOa_mNe3Z8ldMl6XJA