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Are your presentations bad? Here’s how to create the best presentation

A presentation is introducing your thesis, idea, product or service to a group of people in order to inspire, convince, educate, inform and sell.

 

4 Types of presentations

We have two main types of presentations:

  1. Documentary presentations.
  2. profitable presentations.

 

Documentary presentations:

They are used for delivering heavy information or educating people, and it’s targeting mind. They are divided into two types:

  1. Informational Presentations
  2. Educational Presentations

 

Informational presentation:

Informational presentation type is used for turning a report of a long case study into a short presentation.

Presenters:

  • Managers
  • Marketers
  • Executives
  • Engineers
  • Financial specialists

 

Educational presentation:

This is one of the most common types; it’s used for educating people about some skills or knowledge.

Presenters:

  • Professors
  • Teachers
  • Trainers
  • Subject matter experts

 

Documentary presentations Purposes:

  • Achieving understanding.
  • Information project delivery.
  • Auditing situation to stakeholders.
  • Teaching and training.
  • Demonstrating leadership.

 

Documentary presentations Challenge:

  • Earning and keeping all of your audience interested.
  • Presenting with passion and keeping every slide cool and interesting.
  • Adding real-valued thesis in a simple way.

 

Profitable presentations:

 

Live presentation

 

Profitable presentation spread like wildfire in the world because of Tedx and pitch decks. Some people call it “commercial presentations” and these types are used for inspiring people or convincing them strategically. This type targets mind and heart, and they are divided into two types:

  1. Strategic Presentations
  2. Inspiring Presentations

 

Strategic presentations:

They are used for a group of experts in some matter to convince them strategically such as investors or business managers.

Presenters:

  • Sales specialists
  • Business developers strategist
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Marketers

 

Inspirational presentation:

Tedx dominant type, it’s used for inspiring a large group of people to convince them emotionally and mentally to change their concerns towards a traditional problem.

Presenters:

  • Founders
  • Professors
  • Researchers
  • Public speakers
  • Influential thought leaders

 

Profitable presentations purposes:

  • Convincing people with ideas or thought.
  • Selling and making money.
  • Build influential leadership.

 

Profitable presentations challenges:

  • Building a trust to convince.
  • Information and emotional delivery.
  • Answering most of the questions without being asked.

(take a look and experience our presentation at the end of the article.)

 

How much to write in a presentation?

There’s no rule for how much you need to write in your presentation but we need to understand presentations formats first.

 

2 types of Presentation formats:

  1. Slideument
  2. Interactive presentation (a real presentation)

 

Slideument:

Slideument is a presentable document or it is all ideas and preparations you made for your presentation as a handout for presentees to read later.

How much to write?

Write all important information but try to make it descriptive and scannable.

 

Turn your Slideument into an interactive presentation with Imaginators’ creator

We designed page type presentations to present your Slideument as interactive presentation and not lose any of your bullets to reduce the text. It’s preferred to be used for documentary presentations types. Try it out!

 

Interactive presentations:

It’s the real presentation. In interactive presentations, the text should be

  • Very Short
  • Descriptive
  • The main language is related images

* if you can’t make it short because you are making a lot of presentations so use private notes feature.

 

How AIDA communication model affects presentation?
  • Attention is captured by Images.
  • Interest is earned by great thesis.
  • Desire is reached by whys.
  • Action is achieved by the great successful presentation.

 

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Types of Presentations Infographic