Speed and agility are traits that define our society today. And brief and straight-to-the-point presentations would do the trick.

We avoid reading extensive articles, watching long how-to videos on YouTube or checking websites that are hard to navigate. As we usually look for quick and easy fixes, we grow impatient even if a website loads few seconds slower.

While a technological progress provides us with plenty of utilities, finding the right tool with a user-friendly interface and relevant functions becomes a challenge.

7 solutions to make slick presentations

Presenting information in a crisp and concise way is something that we need every day. Activities in entrepreneurship and finance are not exceptions from this rule.

We would like to present the tools that we use in our presentations.

1. Silk

Need to turn boring data into visually appealing charts, graphs and presentations? Silk can do this for you. Just upload your input, customize the looks and turn the data into an interactive webpage.

2. Slides Carnival

When preparing the slides, you want to minimize the time on the design. Slides Carnival enables you to make presentations by offering you free templates for your slides. Pick the design that you like the most and just concentrate on putting the content.

3. Prezi

Want to impress with your slides deck? Then cloud-based platform of Prezi is for you. This tool will help you make your presentation unforgettable and memorable. It’s easy to use and you will be pleased by the results.

Prezi offers 4 service packages for you or your team to work with, and you can opt in for a free version first to see how it works.

4. Swipe

A business idea coined at the Startup Weekend in 2012, Swipe is the first two-way interactive presentation tool. It enables you to create a presentation and show it to other people.

For example, you can find ones of artists and photographers, who are trying to show their work and creations to the largest audience possible.

5. Slidebean

Slidebean and Slide Carnival share a similar concept of providing you with user-friendly interface and neat looking templates, but Slidebean focused more in design.

For example, you can select images from a broad library of stock photos which would naturally fit into the slides, saving you lots of time. So if you are in a hurry and have a tight deadline, just put the content for your slides and the Slidebean do the rest for you.

6. Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is another tool which has a huge gallery of ready-design presentation templates. Just type the content, and you will get a set of images that would suit the tone and context of your presentation.

You can also adjust the elements and add your own. You can surf through already existing slide decks, you can create your own – for free – once you login into the platform.

7. Slideshare

Slideshare is more than just a tool. Since its foundation in 2006, it has evolved into the world’s largest community of knowledge sharing. Slideshare makes the creation of presentations easy.

You can craft an eye-catching presentation by using stunning high-quality photos, choosing your own style and then sharing your work. If you need some more inspiration to start your own deck, Slideshare has an extensive library that would have some examples for you to follow.

A definition of a “great design” tends to be very subjective, that is why there are so many alternatives where you would definitely be able to choose templates and easy interface that is appealing to you.

We would be glad to learn about your experiences. Have you ever used any of these tools before? Lets us know by sharing your thoughts in the comments section below.

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