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Originally Posted by dneary View Post
slide 7, for example, could have all text completely replaced by a trend line overlayed on your background photo.

Slide 14 could probably go :}

I had trouble identifying your key argument in the first few slides - it can be OK to bring people to a destination they don't know in a presentation, but I usually recommend saying up-front what you want to prove, and then drive towards that proof (so that people can contextualise your arguments). Your key point is, I guess, that companies need to have high-quality feedback mechanisms to empower their user-base? Perhaps that could be front & center in the presentation (without so many words on the slide) and then you reinforce that core point by showing the good feedback that people have gotten, contrast with feedback done badly, address the challenges & nod to the future afterwards, and then circle back to the core point - you need to have feedback mechanisms, you need to integrate feedback into your marketing & product plans, etc.

I hope you don't mind late feedback!

Cheers,
Dave.
I like your idea on slide 7 and in fact already planned to try something like that. Unfortunately I'm an artist at heart and "sculpt" even my presentations. I start off with text and then replace with graphics as I have time.

Time is my biggest enemy as other aspects of life have been crowding this out. :/

As for slide 14, it's the heart of the presentation so I can't delete it if I wanted to. Instead, I'll refactor it as I just posted. I think most will be agreeable to what I'll do, and in fact the approach I'm taking will solve other problems. Win-win.

As for identifying the key argument-- you're right, the beef isn't quite there. I have a good idea how to fix that. I worked so hard on bolstering the main premise and propping up strawmen that I neglected key details. BTW, the strawmen will be torched. I don't need to focus on obstacles-- the audience will do that on their own. I need to focus on the goals and possibilities.

And the key is not about companies per se so your guess there tells me I really do need to work on the message. I'd like to go into the detail you suggest but I just have not turned up anything usable in my research and just flat don't have much free time-- so I'll have to build around what I have and hope that will suffice.

My main problem with presentations is that I'm highly intuitive and tend to connect dots mentally that are hard to translate to paper. But I think I can pull it off. I have to.
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