Slide presentations have been both the bread-and-butter and the champagne-and-caviar of the business pitch. Slides offer an outline and a set of visual cues that help engage audiences and move donors to action. Moreover, the best-known desktop applications to create presentations, Microsoft’s PowerPoint and Apple’s Keynote, offer various ways to save your slideshow and share […]
How-to: 7 Tips to Set your Slide Presentations on Fire
We’ve been providing PowerPoint and conference support for many of our clients since the early 1990s (some recent examples of our work can be found here) and while the technology may have changed, the core elements that make a good presentation great still remain: compelling content, a good “story”, professional coaching, and speaker practice — […]
#INTERVIEW: Chris Forbes, Co-Author of Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits, Offers Great Advice to Groups
Chris Forbes is the co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits and a certified guerrilla-marketing coach. His varied background in marketing includes experience in the faith sector and work on five continents, and he has pioneered several media initiatives in public relations, television, radio and the Internet. The interview was conducted by Don Akchin, a principal […]
#BookReview: Ten Steps On The Road To ‘Presentation Zen’
This is a repost of an article that originally appeared on the MKCREATIVE blog in May, 2010. The business/education/PR presentation got a boost in the ’90s when Microsoft PowerPoint gave us the opportunity to turn the staid lecture (from Lectio, ‘to read’) into a multi-media extravaganza of bullet points and pie charts and popping 15-point […]
#PRESENTATIONS: Bagger Events – Slide Presentations
The Challenge: MKCREATIVE created slide presentations for the National Committee on Citizenship conference every year. Our client, Bagger Events, contracts us to both develop presentations for the event and to provide MKCREATIVE graphics staff to run the presentations during the conference. We also act as technical consultants. Our Solution: MKCREATIVE assigned a team to develop […]
#PRESENTATIONDESIGN: MKC Reel (Excerpts)
The Challenge: Many of our clients require slide presentations as training materials or as speaker support and they’re looking to get away from the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint” experience. Our Solution: We work with our clients to develop a narrative, develop design and layout solutions, and create infographics and data visualizations so that the audience […]
#OURCLIENT: FBi Productions, Inc.
Fitzgerald Brunetti Productions approaches each project with the determination to communicate the obscure.As a sculptor takes a faceless rock and shapes it so as to create a human likeness, our writers, designers, and producers work together to give a corporate agenda an innovative and intriguing countenance. Though some consider it an ethically-depraved culture that puts […]
#OURCLIENT: The National Venture Capital Association
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is the premier trade association that represents the U.S. venture capital industry. It is a member-based organization, consisting of venture capital firms that manage pools of risk equity capital dedicated to be invested in high growth, entrepreneurial companies. The NVCA represents the public policy interests of the venture capital […]