If you are not a presentation designer, but you present frequently, Henrik offered five simple rules that will ensure your presentations are more professional:

1. One message per slide

Your audience will begin reading whatever you display on your slide right away, which diverts their focus away from you. Even worse, if you have all of those messages and decide to read them yourself. That would be a disaster.

2. Five elements per slide

Keep it tight. To allow your audience’s brains to relax and not feel crowded by too many items, limit each slide to five or six items from the start. Then all your audience has to do is listen.

3. Maximum two fonts per presentation

Many times we add content and forget about checking the font. It looks unprofessional when you show inconsistency like that, so keep it down to two fonts for your convenience as well.

4. Maximum seven words or less per line

A simple rule is to make sure you are not adding too much text to your slide.

5. Maximum five bullet points per slide

More than five bullets on a slide can kill your impact. Do you need more bullet points? Add a slide!

Henrik also reminded us that nowadays we communicate more with images, aka visually, rather than with words. 

If most of your preparation time is spent trying to find the right images, product shots, brand images, company logos, hunting around SharePoint or Dropbox for the corporate template, and that is where Pickit cuts that time in half.

Pickit concentrates on three key elements: design, structure, and format. What it does is assist you to save time on those, so you can spend it on things like body language, public speaking practice, walking your dog, or drinking a cup of coffee.

So, where do you get your images? Keeping track of licenses, log-ins, and other such details can be difficult. Many individuals use search engines for photos, but unfortunately, 85 percent of those images are unlicensed and illegal to use in a presentation.

As a solution, Pickit has gathered 1 million photos from 15 different image sources and placed them all in one place inside PowerPoint. You don’t have to switch to anything else this way. If you become easily sidetracked, remaining inside PowerPoint is critical, and Pickit solves that as well.

Brad showed how easy Pickit makes it for you to find and add the right images from multiple sources, all without leaving PowerPoint.

And if you don’t know what image to use and need some inspiration? Pickit provides image collections that serve as visual playlists, selected by professional curators to ensure that there is always relevant and current material.

Your digital assets are easily accessible within PowerPoint – brand images, product shots, maybe some employee portraits, logos, and even fonts.

Perhaps a marketing manager has handed you a lengthy pdf including the brand book, style guide, and other materials? You can have everything in PowerPoint at your fingertips with Pickit.

Here you can see how you can have all the brand images and company logos, even fonts, just a few clicks away.

Pickit Enterprise is relatively new for Pickit, but it is gaining momentum and they constantly release new services. Pickit Enterprise is the more advanced service, and it offers all kinds of different integrations. For example, if you have Getty Images or Adobe Stock accounts, you can put them in. You may also link your Dropbox account and access the stuff stored there