PowerPoint: How-to articles covering the latest marketing tactics, tips, and strategies.

• #SocialSkim: Social Media This Week, Including a PowerPoint AlternativeAngela Natividad
  Find yourself some Yelp killers, LinkedIn stats, a delicious social alternative to PowerPoint, Twitter #ComedyFest, scratch-and-sniff banner ads, and GIFs... for TV! Skim to get caught up on the week's ...
  Advertising, B2B Marketing, B2C, Demographics, Digital Theory, Humor, LinkedIn, PowerPoint, Social Business, Social Media
• Marketing Training: How to Make E-Learning EffectiveTom Graunke
  When the need arises to train a large department within your organization on a new marketing campaign, or you find yourself having to relay crucial marketing information to partners or ...
  Career Management, Content, Corporate Communications, PowerPoint, Presentations, Trade Shows/Events, Videos, Webinars
• 11 Foolproof Ways to Ruin Your Presentation Slides [Slide Show]Verónica Maria Jarski
  The typos on the title slide and other errors in this slide show are intentional. Moreover, MarketingProfs sincerely implores you to not follow the advice herein as prescription. In fact, ...
  Career Management, Content, Copywriting, PowerPoint, Presentations, Sales, Writing
• Achieve Visual Storytelling (and Sales) Success With WhiteboardsTim Riesterer
  Whiteboards are an essential visual storytelling tool that you as a marketer can help create for salespeople to differentiate your company from the competition—and get customers and prospects to choose ...
  B2B Marketing, Content, Customer Engagement, Positioning, PowerPoint, Sales, Writing
• The Inside Scoop on Becoming a Good Public SpeakerHeather Rast
  Public speaking is a powerful way to get your message to key influencers and decision-makers. Want to be a sought-after speaker? Learn what it takes to master the organizational and ...
  Career Management, Content, Lead Generation, Marketing Conferences, PowerPoint, Public Speaking
• A 47-Point Guide for First-Time Webinar SuccessAgnieszka Wilinska
  Though webinars are live and sometimes free-flowing, they should never be disorganized. Careful planning demonstrates respect for your attendees and their time. Here are 47 tips for hosting a webinar ...
  Content, Interactive Marketing, Marketing Tips, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Webinars
• Seven Ways to 'Gamify' Your Online Marketing Outreach
  We've talked up a storm about "gamification," and here's why: As ShuffleBrain CEO Amy Kim says, "gamers are everywhere; everyone's a gamer." And the best way to engage these fun ...
  Creativity, Customer Engagement, Humor, Online Marketing, PowerPoint
• Stop Making Presentations! How PowerPoint Ruined the US EconomyDan Sapp
  Right now, in countless corporate conference rooms, otherwise productive professionals are quietly snoring during yet another PowerPoint presentation. Such presentations are costly, ineffective, and distracting.
  Customer Engagement, Marketing Smarter, PowerPoint, Public Speaking
• One-Third of Adults Have Snoozed During PowerPoint Presentations
  Sitting through a PowerPoint presentation appears to be one of the most dreaded office activities: More than 32% of surveyed adults say they have fallen asleep during a PowerPoint presentation ...
  Customer Behavior, PowerPoint, Research Summaries
• BAM! Turn Up the Heat on Your Presentations With a Few Culinary TipsHeidi Jackman
  Like a good meal with good friends, great presentations encourage sharing, interaction, and conversation. So sharpen your knives, oil your pans, and think like a top chef preparing a meal ...
  Content, Creativity, Marketing Tips, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Word of Mouth

PowerPoint: Online seminar broadcasts from the best minds in marketing

• MarketingProfs University: Presentation Elevation—How to Educate, Inspire, and EngageBroadcast on 2/14/2013 with Michael Weiss
  This PRO seminar and kick-off class of MarketingProfs University's Presentations Unleashed will teach you how to make a powerful impression on your audience and leave them energized and inspired by your ideas.
  PowerPoint, Presentations, Public Speaking, Strategy
• Behind the Online Curtain: Secrets for Building a Successful Webinar ProgramBroadcast on 4/23/2009 with Ann Handley, Shelley Ryan
  Who is offering online seminars? Lately, it seems like everyone is. Whether you're doing it for lead-gen tactics or no-strings-attached education, you'll learn something invaluable in this session.
  Collaboration, Creativity, Marketing Smarter, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Tips, PowerPoint, Webinars, Writing
• Extreme PowerPoint Makeover: Transform Your Data-Driven Presentation Beyond Bullet PointsBroadcast on 4/9/2009 with Cliff Atkinson
  Ready to improve your presentation materials? It's time to save the world from boredom, one conference room at a time.
  Creativity, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Writing
• Eleven Big Ideas, with Seth GodinBroadcast on 8/8/2006 with Seth Godin
  WIth this engaging seminar, we can promise you a bunch of irrelevant, disconnected stories that are guaranteed to spark at least one big idea!
  Brand Awareness, Creativity, Marketing Inspiration, PowerPoint, Word of Mouth

PowerPoint: Marketing downloads for the busy professional

• Benchmark Survey: Communication Skills
  Link directly to the raw (aggregate) data in this 2005 survey about the skill level survey respondents have in various ways of communicating. With access to the raw data, you can view the results, and even filter them to see how a subset of companies in your country or industry answered. In this way, you can interpret the data in the most meaningful way for you.
  Career Management, Email Marketing, PowerPoint, Public Speaking, Writing