Powerpoint presentations that sparkle

powerpoint presentations have long been a double-edged sword. Good sales presentations using decent Powerpoint design can be a great asset to a company. A poor presentation, put together by someone who doesn’t know what they are doing, can be a liability.

One of the issues with Powerpoint, as well as its advantage, is that it is so easy to use. Without any training, someone with basic computer literacy can put together a slideshow without too much trouble. It’s extremely powerful, allowing you to embed all kinds of different graphics, movies, audio and other effects. So much is built in that a speaker hoping to make a good impression can really go to town, incorporating as many as possible of its toys.

This, however, is often a serious mistake. Powerpoint design is a fairly fine art. Like any audio-visual medium, doing it well is difficult. Just because you can put together a brochure with desktop publishing software, or a home movie with a video camera, doesn’t mean that the outcome will convince the audience.

Worse, Powerpoint is so common in the business world that there is often the expectation that it will be used – both on the part of the audience and the speaker. That means that presentations can be thrown together simply to fulfil that expectation. Whilst well-designed powerpoint presentations can add a whole extra dimension to a speech, giving complementary information and appealing to listeners for whom the spoken word isn’t a natural medium, a poor presentation will turn people off. Put another way, not having a Powerpoint presentation is better than having a bad one. This can hamstring otherwise competent speakers, because they find that the slideshow actually detracts from what they are saying. This is never more the case when it simply repeats the material verbatim – a mistake that is all too common.

The purpose of sales presentations is to close a deal. Good Powerpoint design can help you with this; bad Powerpoint design can end up losing you the bid. If you are in any doubt, compare a few successful presentations – yours or other companies’ – with others that haven’t gone so well. What has been the difference? Where Powerpoint adds to clear and effective communication, it is an asset. Where is makes things more complicated and distracting, it’s best left out. The trick is finding out how to do it well, every time.

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Glass louvres that combine style with practicality

Anyone who has worked in an ill-ventilated building in hot weather or in the midst of radiators running on overdrive will know how agonising such an experience of heat can be. Headaches become a recurring theme, backs and foreheads drip with sweat and levels of productivity run at all-time lows. Working in cold buildings can be equally uncomfortable of course: fingers can be heard cracking at their keyboards and many cups of tea or coffee must be provided simply to keep the office workers functioning. The latter nippy conditions are often not even the fault of low quality insulation or an inefficient heating system; quite conversely, the chill factor in the workplace often results from expensive air-conditioning systems going into overdrive and leaving employees feeling thirsty and irritable. Happily, both overheating and underheating can be prevented quite easily with the latest innovations in brise soleil, glass louvres and external louvres.

Indeed, the answers to the above issues are not so tricky to find. Among glass louvres, external louvres and brise soleil, the latter are preventative innovations, for example, that conquer the cause of overheating at its source: using a special cut of glass that has all the markings of an object of high design, the brise soleil is effectively an advanced reworking of the parasol or awning that helps prevent glare by stopping direct sunshine from entering a given building. An extra bonus that compliments the brise is its capacity to make a building more private, thus conjuring an air of intrigue around an enterprise at the same time as allowing employees to concentrate.

glass louvres and external louvres are possibly even more warranting of praise than the brise soleil, however, for they comply with and even surpass the kind of environmental policies put forward by green parties globally. Altogether then, the above developments in building improvement technology will allow company bosses to conduct their businesses more responsibly. Directors who opt for heat-controlling investments will be recognised as those who make their employees, as well as the consciences of their clients, an absolute priority. Finally, the fact remains that buying into these structural additions will actually modernize the aspect of any given office block or shop; we have only to think of the Eden project in Cornwall or Paris’s Louvre itself to realise that a business buying into shading and heating devices will be following in the footsteps of architectural success.

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Bacs: fast, easy, secure

bacs software has been around for decades now, but it still has not been universally adopted by businesses. This is odd when you consider the many advantages of making bacs payments, rather than older and less reliable or secure methods. There is still some suspicion about trusting computers to do your work for you, and people tend to be warier than ever where their money is concerned. The maxim holds that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, but that weak link is generally down to human error. In practice, bacs is a fast and reliable way of making payments to suppliers and receiving them from customers. It can save you time and money, and reduce the errors and risk associated with handling cash and paying third parties by other means.

Bacs stands for bankers automated clearing software. Essentially it is an electronic payment of funds from your account to another party’s account. This can take up to three days, but can equally be almost instant. (There is another version, SWIFT, which is guaranteed same-day.) Even in the worst case scenario, then, bacs is as fast as paying in a cheque or cash. It has several advantages over and above that.

One of these is security. Making online payments means you do not have to hold cash on the premises. It also reduces the scope for fraud, since you will no longer be writing out cheques. Reliability is another. The money leaves your account straight away, so you know how much is left, and you are not likely to be caused cash-flow problems by people delaying paying in cheques and then the money leaving your account unexpectedly. Plus, once you have correctly entered a payee’s details once, they can be reused after that. Paying the wrong person and having to regain the money shouldn’t be an issue.

Bacs software can be used to time payments, and in conjunction with accounting software can be used to take care of payroll commitments – automating pay day and saving a huge amount of time and effort, as well as reducing the error inevitable in doing the job manually. Bacs payments and receipts can also be combined with auditing software to further reduce error and duplicate payments, resulting in surprising savings for most businesses. In conclusion, there are several reasons to use bacs and few to ignore it.

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