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13 PowerPoint Presentation Tips to Create Engaging Presentations
Written by:
Chloe West
When it comes to giving a presentation, you want to wow your audience, right?
Whether you’re putting together a webinar to sell a product, delivering a presentation in front of your boss or making a sales pitch, you want the people listening to be engaged.
One great way of ensuring your audience loves your presentation is by using visually appealing and interactive presentation slides that help your content really stand out.
You don’t want to use the basic templates you’re given in PowerPoint and Keynote. You’re better than that. Get creative and make a presentation using some of these 51 presentation slides.
You can find the perfect presentation slides template in this list for whatever your objective is. And the best part is, you can edit it in Visme's drag-and-drop editor in just a few minutes!
Trust us, your audience will love it.
There are so many reasons you might need to give a presentation in your business or career. And we’ve got just the right templates to get you started.
After all, you’re probably spending enough time creating the content and rehearsing your presentation. You don’t need to worry about your presentation slide design at the same time.
Here are a few presentation slide options to choose from based on what your topic material is.
Sick of seeing team members nod off or lose focus during your team meetings?
Put together your meeting agenda ahead of time using these presentation slides to help keep your team engaged and informed throughout.
This template comes with 15 premade presentation slides that cover everything from project management to charts showing performance and overall meeting objectives. Whatever you need to share in your meeting, you can find in this theme.
Plus, you can completely customize it to match your company colors directly in Visme!
It’s important to ensure everyone on your team knows and understands the company’s goals. After all, everyone’s work should be geared towards achieving those goals.
You can use these presentation slides to put together a background of your company and how far it’s come, as well as detailing your upcoming goals, launches and more.
Pro Tip: Easily swap out each icon to one that perfectly represents your industry and company goals.
If you’re speaking to a networking group about your company or pitching to investors, you likely need to give an overview of your company, its leadership team and its offerings.
These are the perfect presentation slides to help you put together a minimalistic design that draws focus towards your company and its mission.
Plus, all of the slides are perfectly set up to highlight your company’s most important assets.
And best of all, they’re completely customizable. Add in your own brand fonts and colors to create the perfect presentation for your business.
When it comes to project management, you could always just send over a boring email or report update, but a better way would be to put together a presentation updating your team and/or your supervisors on the status of the project and the remaining timeline.
This presentation theme comes with 14 different slides to help you put together a status report that covers all aspects of your project: the various phases and how far along each one is, the timeline for your project, a project health card and more.
You can also gain even more inspiration for your project timeline slides from these timeline infographic ideas.
Want to show your boss how the company is doing? Or share how your team’s efforts have affected the bottom line? Put together a presentation that shows your business’s results over the year.
While this presentation template comes with a fun geometric accent pattern, you’re able to swap out any of these shapes for ones that more accurately represent your business or your message right in Visme’s design dashboard.
Are you starting a new business? You might be looking for investors, or perhaps you want to pitch the idea to a potential cofounder.
You can use this theme to put together a polished business plan presentation that showcases your business idea, the market summary, the industry opportunities and more.
You can also use Visme’s color themes to find the perfect color scheme for your presentation and your upcoming business. After all, your brand colors can say a lot about your business.
Put together a presentation that introduces a new product idea to your boss, your board of directors or your investors. Take advantage of the charts and graphs in Visme’s design dashboard to showcase various studies and statistics that prove why your idea will be profitable.
Or you can utilize this presentation theme to introduce a product to the public. If your company is in the process of developing a new product to release, a presentation introduction can be a great and engaging way to share it with your audience.
Pro Tip: Start your presentation with a Table of Contents so your audience knows what to expect.
Whether you’re launching a new product or sharing the features of an already existing one, you can show off your product through a presentation.
You can share your presentation on social media, on your website or at a large company event to announce to your audience. Include bright, high-quality photos of your product and a list of its best features to really highlight your new release.
There are many different ways of putting together a brand style guide for your business. One great way is with a presentation.
These presentation slides allow you to seamlessly input your own fonts, colors and other visual guidelines into a single presentation so that you can easily share your brand with the designers, marketers and other members of your team.
Edit and Download Customize this presentation template to make it your own!
These presentation slides can help you easily put together a business introduction template for a conference or networking event.
Just click above to edit in Visme, switch out your background with one of the thousands of options in our photo library, add in your own key facts, vision and values and download!
Put together a presentation to showcase upcoming trends in your industry. You can leave the patterns and colors the way they are in these existing presentation slides, or you can add in your own brand colors or product colors.
Understanding developing trends in your industry each year is important so that you know where your business should focus its efforts.
Sharing a presentation with your team is a great way to stay ahead of the curve.
Use these presentation slides to showcase your services and what you can offer your clients/customers. If you have a visual business, a presentation is an excellent way to highlight your work and show it off to prospective leads.
Swap out each photo in this presentation template with photos of your own work, update the fonts to match your brand voice (or upload your own brand fonts) and add in the services you offer.
Pro Tip: Embed your Visme presentation right on your website for your audience to check out.
A slideshow presentation is a great way for you to showcase photos of your work alongside your service offerings. This template even includes social media icons on the last page so that viewers know how to find the business online.
Again, you’ll want to swap out all of the photos with your own work, but this presentation theme is a great way to get started.
Are you presenting a tutorial or step-by-step guide on how to do something? Using presentation slides to put together your content is a great idea.
It’s a disservice to both your company and your customer to assume that everyone automatically knows how to use your product or service. Showing your audience exactly what to do is essential to your customer service strategy.
Putting together a customer survey is a great idea to understand how your audience feels about your industry or even your company. Grab those results and insert them into these presentation slides to share with your team.
You can also put together a blog post or webpage with survey results and embed this presentation directly into it so your audience can understand the state of the industry as well.
Visme’s design dashboard allows you to add in various charts and graphs that adjust automatically based on the numbers you input. After all, ain’t nobody got time for manually adjusting the sizes of bar graphs and pie charts.
Utilize these beautifully designed presentation slides to create a brief overview of your company and its offerings.
Having a readily available presentation overview of your company is a great idea for when you’re pitching investors, journalists for coverage and more. You don’t need to recreate a presentation each time. Instead, put together a visually appealing and informative one-size-fits-all overview.
You can add in your own photos or choose from Visme’s photo library to keep the same beautifully minimalistic appeal.
When sharing financial information, it’s always helpful to put together some kind of visual aid. This can be used to further emphasize your content, whether it’s about going over budget, showing off exciting revenue increases and more.
Check out these finance presentation slide options to find the perfect template for your goals.
Use this template to put together a presentation that goes over your company’s expenses, sales, profits and more.
The built-in data visualization options allow you to showcase your point with more than just numbers. Add in a table of contents to keep your report organized and cohesive, letting your team know exactly what information they’ll find inside.
Need to report some financial statistics and data? These presentation slides are perfect for helping you insert cold, hard facts into your presentation.
Each slide includes a different type of chart or graph for you to choose from to fully represent your data and statistics. You can easily switch your color scheme by inputting your own brand colors or by choosing a preset color theme from Visme’s dashboard.
It’s important to know where it makes the most sense to market your product geographically. Showcase sales and overall company growth and profitability by location.
Knowing your revenue based on geographic location is essential for a global company, and this presentation template is perfect for the job.
Pro Tip: Use Visme’s dynamic map creator to select any region or country in the world and color code it with your brand colors.
When it comes to sales and marketing for your company, there is a lot of data and information that can be represented visually. Creating sales and marketing presentations helps with keeping your team on the right track, but can also be a great way to make a pitch.
Learn more about creating essential sales and marketing presentations with these templates.
Edit and Download Customize this presentation template to make it your own!
When you’re putting together a sales and marketing plan, you have to present it to your boss for approval, then to your team for implementation.
Use these presentation slides to help visualize your sales and marketing plan, including each of the upcoming tactics and strategies and the steps for putting them in place.
Having a presentation to refer back to allows your team to ensure they’re implementing the strategies properly.
Whether you’re introducing new marketing ideas to your team, pitching a new marketing strategy to your boss or to a new client, a presentation is the perfect format.
Grab this presentation template that helps you to define your new ideas and share specific tactics for how they should be implemented for the business. Then get ready to rock your pitch and share your awesome new ideas.
Review market trends with your team so you know where to take your company’s marketing messaging. You can send out a customer survey or take a look at a few studies that have been done surrounding your industry to put together your market analysis report.
Input all of your findings into this presentation template so you can easily present it to your team or grab the link and send it in an email. Even if you’re not standing up to give a presentation, these presentation slides are still an engaging way to share necessary information.
Building a new marketing plan for your business? Put together a presentation for your marketing plan to share with your team.
Presenting your new marketing plan to the company is a great way to get everyone motivated and on board with new strategies and ideas.
You can add in your goals, objectives and even user personas with this ready-made marketing plan template.
Pro Tip: End your presentation with a Thank You page and always be sure to thank your audience for listening, regardless of whether it’s a group at a conference or just your marketing team.
Your sales team should be regularly providing insight on how much revenue the company is generating. And a great way to do that is through a sales report presentation or slideshow.
It’s important to stay informed of sales growth throughout the year. Share graphs of sales quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year to see where the company/sales team needs to improve.
Don’t just write a boring old press release to send out to journalists and media publications. Instead, create an interactive press release showcasing your launch.
A presentation press release will help your business stand out from the dry press releases most publications receive, offering even more incentive for them to highlight your business and its products/services.
Edit this template to add in your own brand touches, voice and launch information before grabbing the link and sending it off.
Sharing results of any marketing strategy is always essential. This is how you keep your team updated of any strategies that are working, and any strategies that need some adapting.
This presentation theme is a great way to share your current strategy and results. Input your platforms, your strategies and your metrics before presenting it to your team. Customize the presentation slides so that they cater perfectly to your company’s strategy.
Pitching a social media strategy to your boss can also be done well with a presentation. Showcase why social media is important to invest in, what your plan is and how it will affect the bottom line.
This presentation template already gets you started in perfectly pitching your own strategy. Simply adjust it to your brand colors and fonts and update the information with your own.
Presentations are huge in educational settings.
Whether you’re a teacher looking for an interactive way to share your lesson plan or a student trying to finish up a school project, we’ve got the presentation templates for you.
Take a look at our education presentation slide options to find one that works for you.
When working one-on-one with a student or mentee, it can be a good idea to put a training or education plan into place. These presentation slides are the perfect start to your lesson and can help to visualize the content and learn in a different way.
Putting together educational content in a presentation helps offer different formats for learning. Students are often not provided with all of the tools they need to learn the material, and a presentation is a great place to start.
Putting together a book report to present for your class? Get started with a presentation theme that you can fully customize for your specific book.
These presentation slides allow you to seamlessly enter in the information about your main characters, the theme of the book, its timeline and any other pertinent information you need to share with the class.
Don’t worry about presentation design in your next project. We’ve already got it all put together for you! Simply click edit, insert your book content and download your presentation.
Help your class remember fast facts before a text with this trivia template. It’s a great way to host a study session in your classroom, and the content is easily interchangeable.
Or if you’re a student, put together a presentation study guide to help you memorize the most important key facts and information from class. A trivia presentation format can make for a fun study sesh before the test.
Don’t waste time putting together a dry Microsoft Word or PowerPoint lesson plan. Instead, create an interactive lesson plan that helps you stay on message during your class, and helps your students to know exactly what’s going to come next.
Pro Tip: With the ability to host your presentation on Visme, you can give your students a web URL so they can access the lesson plan anytime.
Group presentations just got a little more exciting. Blow the rest of your class’s projects away by using these presentation slides to compile your overall project objectives and results.
You can easily adjust colors and fonts, add in your team members and insert copy relevant to your class and your group project.
Don’t forget to thank your classmates and your teacher for listening in the end.
A pitch deck is an essential presentation for all businesses and entrepreneurs to have. There are many times you might need to pitch your business, whether it’s to investors for funding, journalists for media coverage and more.
Using a presentation template to put together your pitch deck is a great idea so that you can focus on pitching your business without having to worry about the design.
Browse through the pitch deck presentation slides below to find one that works for your business and its goals.
Give this Airbnb-inspired pitch deck presentation theme a go when putting together a slideshow for your business. Include the solution that your business provides its customers, product/service information, and excerpts from press acknowledgements.
Pro Tip: If you don’t have your own photography, Visme’s photo library includes hundreds of thousands of free stock photos to choose from.
Showcase your business with this geometric pitch deck template inspired by Front. Add in the planned acquisition channels for your business, your leadership team and more.
Your pitch deck is meant to showcase your business to people who may want to work with you, so it’s important to share the most imperative information.
Showcase the state of the industry and your business’s role in it with this pitch deck presentation template inspired by Buffer. The information these presentation slides include helps you to share what type of impact your company has had on your industry.
Since industries are ever-changing, you can easily update the information within your pitch deck in Visme and it will automatically sync to the webpage that you embed this presentation on.
Use these presentation slides inspired by Intercom to give your audience an idea of what your product is going to look like and how it will work.
This is the perfect pitch deck template to take advantage of when launching a new SaaS product or app so that you can share what the technology will look like and how it will work.
Showcasing specific features and tutorials is a great way to get people talking about your product.
Is your company helping to fuel a movement? Share how your company is changing the industry with this pitch deck template inspired by WeWork.
It’s exciting when your business is doing more for your industry than simply adding another product or service. Focusing on a movement that really switches up the way your industry does things is an incredible feat.
Utilize a pitch deck template like the one above to showcase how your company is involved.
Does your business focus on content? Or perhaps you’re creating a new kind of media outlet?
Show off your content and analytics with this Buzzfeed-inspired pitch deck presentation template. Getting advertisers on board and other media outlets to talk about you is important for success.
This is why you need to be putting together a pitch deck that shares that kind of information. No one will want to work with you if you keep your analytics in the dark.
Starting a new venture that you need funding for? Use these presentation slides to put together a pitch for investors in your business.
From showcasing the problem in the industry to your business’s solution, along with your business plan and pricing table is a great way to get potential investors interested in what you’re selling.
Edit and Download Customize this pitch deck template to make it your own!
Compare and contrast what processes look like with and without your business with this pitch deck template inspired by LinkedIn.
It’s a great idea to take care of this in your pitch deck so that you make the job of any media outlet or writer covering your business even easier. After all, you’ve done the hard work for them.
They were going to share how your business helps. You’ve already visualized this in your pitch deck. This increases the chances that people will cover your business.
Use this pitch deck presentation theme inspired by Mattermark to put together key questions about the industry that showcase why your business is so essential.
Launching a startup is hard work, and that’s why a pitch deck is an essential marketing tool to have. Creating a pitch deck that already answers the why and how questions of your business is a great way to introduce who you are and what you’re doing to investors and reporters.
Put together an overview of how your product works with this pitch deck presentation template inspired by Foursquare.
With presentation slides already in place to showcase a step-by-step tutorial, all you have to do is input your content and publish your presentation.
Pro Tip: You can create a brand guide with Visme by uploading your brand fonts and selecting your brand colors. Add in your logo to create a content block that brands every presentation your company puts together.
If your company has been doing some awesome stuff lately, you want your potential investors and those looking to work with your business to know about it.
Show off your company achievements with this pitch deck presentation template inspired by the famous Fyre Festival pitch deck.
Pro Tip: You can easily swap out all of the photos, icons, and shapes with others from Visme’s library that better suit your brand.
Use these presentation slides inspired by Biogrify to excite people about how they can use your product. If you have a unique product or service, you just need to drum up a little excitement and attention!
A pitch deck is the perfect way to do that. Add in your company’s logo, mission and unique selling proposition to get people looking forward to becoming customers/users.
Influencer marketing is a huge marketing strategy that can generate some serious results. What better way to pitch influencers about your business than with this pitch deck inspired by Launchrock?
Don’t email off some boring PDF or Google Doc. Create enticing pitches to influencers with this pitch deck theme, and start watching the replies from influencers pour in.
Working with influencers to promote your product is a great way to increase your audience base and word of mouth about your company.
When you’re running a nonprofit, there is a lot of pitching your organization, talking to donors and working on events to increase donations. This is why you need a presentation.
Putting together a presentation for your nonprofit is a great way to showcase what your organization does and why people should donate to it.
Here are a few nonprofit presentation slides to choose from, where all you have to do is insert your information, change colors and fonts and present.
Put together a report that covers what your nonprofit is working against as well as your nonprofit’s achievements each year.
Pro Tip: Visme’s dynamic chart/graph creator is perfect for your nonprofit’s presentation slides. You’ll easily be able to drop in your numbers and achievements to let media publications and potential donors know what you’ve been up to.
Use these presentation slides to provide an overview of your nonprofit and its main projects. In order to generate even more support and donations, it’s important to provide clear insight into what your key products and objectives are.
This presentation theme is perfect for showcasing the key issues your nonprofit fights for and its process for doing so.
Being transparent about what your nonprofit works on is important so that your donors know exactly where their money is going. Being secretive can generate some bad press, so it’s better to be open with your supporters.
These presentation slides use earthy colors to convey their nonprofit’s connection to animal rights. Use this to showcase your nonprofit. You can use the current colors or update it to match your nonprofit’s brand/industry.
Pro Tip: You can save your nonprofit’s brand colors directly in your Visme dashboard so they’re easily accessible with each design and presentation you create.
Use these presentation slides to cover why your nonprofit matters and why donors should consider contributing.
A nonprofit only exists when people donate, so putting together a compelling pitch deck showcasing why your nonprofit is so important to your main issue is important. These slides are perfect for sharing your goals and mission.
This pitch deck presentation template is perfect for SPCAs and other animal societies working on finding forever homes for their animals.
However, it can also be adapted to any other nonprofit or business need. The great thing about these presentation slides is how versatile they are. Each one is completely customizable to fit your specific needs.
Ready to get started with creating your presentation?
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Hi, appreciate the templates you have here. But I was just wondering if you have any templates particular for P.E. classes? Thank you!