4 Tips to Create a Memorable Presentation

To create a memorable presentation and to make an impression on your audience go beyond traditional slideshows and integrate fun and engaging elements in your PPT.

When preparing a presentation keep in mind that the audience don’t like monologues, they don’t like to just sit and talked at. So create a presentation in a way to interact with your audience and enable them to have their contribution to the presentation. How?

There are some useful guides that you should follow in order to have an outstanding and compelling presentation. Let’s go through them:

Keep It Simple

One of the techniques of preparing a memorable presentation is keeping it simple. What does it mean?

You should limit the text on the slides and write it in bullet points. Too much text on slides is boring: it creates an impression of mess and cause your audience to be distracted. Include only the more important and cornerstone ideas in bullet points, as it will increase the readability of your slides. Just ensure that the information is concise and clear to everyone.

Don’t be afraid of white spaces and remember that less is more.

Keep your talk simple too. It should be understandable and repeatable. Don’t over-complicate your speech with too many facts and figures avoid reading from slides. Remember, that too much data may distract or confuse your audience.

Engage the audience

A memorable presentation is an engaging presentation.

Listeners get excited when they are able to have a contribution in a presentation and become more attentive and “controllable”.

Apply one of the most up-to-date means to engage the audience and keep them awake: Conduct online polls regarding the topic of your presentation and embed the online polls’ link in the presentation.

For that use Swift Polling. Why?

• It enables to add online polls’ questions directly into PowerPoint slides and engage the audience have them vote during the presentation.
• Audience participate in online polls without registering to this service.
• It literally takes a few seconds: audience can text (SMS) their vote or comment to a phone number or enter an event code into Swift’s website and vote online.
• It delivers intense interactivity to your presentation and helps keep the audience interested and engaged.
• The online polls’ results are updated in real-time on a slide and an interactive discussion can be followed after this.
• This method always works to prepare a memorable presentation and satisfy all the listeners.

Use visualization

High quality and to-the-point videos and images can be a good fit for a memorable presentation, explaining many concepts and ideas deeper. They will help your audience to remember the material better.

Visualized content creates long-lasting impression among your audience and prevents them from getting bored. It is a great mean to engage the audience. 90 of information transmitted to the brain is visual.

Images are a key part of a presentation, but there are some tips that will help you enhance and amplify your point with images:

• Use high quality images and graphics. Avoid using pixelated or blurry images.
• Use large images, with the main object in the center and clearly visible. Do not use small images.
• Use only one picture per slide. There are some exceptions, but in most cases using too many images causes distraction.
• If you are forced to use multiple images, make sure they are arranged properly. If these are very similar, put them in line and make sure the sizing is equal.
• Avoid using images with copyright information printed across. You can always put copyright details in a final slide or in the bottom of each slide (also below the picture itself).
• If you are putting text over an image, make sure there is enough contrast and the text is easy to read.

Use Humor

And finally a key to a memorable presentation is using humor skillfully, as information conveyed with humor is more likely to be remembered.

Humor is a great tool to ease tension and establish a good connection with your audience. Sometimes it also helps to indicate a key point of your message and keep your audience’s attention.

Make your humor relevant both to your presentation and audience. For that you should know who is your audience, their background, tests and biases in order use humor to make a point.