While Microsoft PowerPoint offers a variety of free design templates, it’s not always the best idea to use these in your presentations. Why? Simply because everybody is so familiar with the default templates that you miss a great opportunity to hook them into your presentation by using one. By using a custom template (or modified default one), you are grabbing your audiences attention right off the bat with something they have never seen before.

Chris Le Roy has written a pretty good article below on how to customize one of PowerPoint’s default templates, which is a good first step if you are new to creating templates. The article follows below:

The Secrets To Customising Your Microsoft Powerpoint Design Template

By Chris Le Roy

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What do the “big bosses” at your work do? Do they make copies? Do they write software? Do they conduct testing? The answer to all three of these questions is no. What do they do then? They sell work. This means that they sell projects, products, whatever your company markets to your clients. They are always looking for ways to create new business.

A common misconception at the workplace is that only people at a certain level can sell work. Actually, everybody who works for your company can sell work, it just may not seem obvious. One of the best ways to do this is to sell your Brand when you are doing PowerPoint presentations.

How do you go about doing this? Kevin Potts has outlined some good advice below on how to sell your brand through PowerPoint presentations. I’ve included my comments on the article right before the Author Resource Box.

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