There are good reasons to realize your next sales presentation together with a professional presentation agency. If you want to achieve the greatest possible sales success, professionals can do considerably more than the average PowerPoint user. You will also receive first-class support for your own performance in front of an audience. You only have to manage one thing: to find the right agency. We have summarized for you what you should look for when choosing.
Working with a professional external agency is always pleasant. It takes a lot of work off your hands, saves time and gives better end results. For this it costs money. But a really good service provider is always worth the money. And how do you know that your service provider was not as professional as you had hoped? You notice this, for example, because the meetings are so time-consuming that you might as well do the work yourself during this time. You may find that there is a lot of extra work because you have to deal with agency issues all the time. And you will probably realize in the end, frustrated, that you actually expected more quality for the money. If you work with a good agency, the most you will be annoyed about is that you did not think of calling them earlier.
From the idea to the finished sales presentation – When do I need the
Professionals?
Of course, you can create your presentation completely by yourself and only send it to a presentation agency for finishing at the end. As a result, you will get a presentation that has been significantly improved in details. Perhaps graphics have been optimized, transitions improved, a more pleasing font introduced. You will most likely achieve a clear increase in the quality of your presentation, which will have been worthwhile. But much more than fine-tuning is no longer possible if the presentation has already been completed beforehand. However, if you have made a mistake in the planning and content structure of your presentation, this can hardly be corrected afterwards, or only with enormous effort.
The greatest benefit from working with a presentation agency comes from the early involvement of the external experts in your project. This is because the course is set for either success or failure as early as the presentation idea. Your sales presentation can only be a resounding success if all the wheels mesh properly during its creation. From the concept, to the right selection and design of the content, to the coordinated appearance of the speaker, only the sum of all the right individual steps results in the optimal sales presentation.
Can’t the usual advertising agency do it?
I often hear, “we already have an advertising agency that has been doing everything for us for years. Why should we hire an extra presentation agency?” Of course, you can also give the job of developing a professional sales presentation to an advertising agency. I always compare it to choosing a doctor. When I have a minor ailment, I first go to my family doctor in my town. If it turns out there that it is more serious after all, I’ll have a specialist recommended who is an expert on my subject. I would do the same with the choice of agency. If you just need two PowerPoint slides, one saying “Welcome” and the other saying “Thank you for visiting”, you can design that yourself, or give it to your in-house agency. If, on the other hand, you need a sales presentation that will really help you sell your products successfully, then you should turn to experts who know exactly what good sales presentations should look like. And they also know how to present the content properly.
Presentation agencies are the best partners for your perfect sales presentation
A presentation agency has a whole range of specialists on board to ensure that every aspect of your presentation project is professionally attended to. Because creating PowerPoint slides is far from all you need to succeed. They have professional project management at their disposal, which implements your wishes in a timely and always transparent manner. And presentation agencies also take care of the perfect appearance of the speaker. After all, the most beautiful slides won’t do you any good if the presenter doesn’t have a precise knowledge of how to present properly. Consulting, project management and training are part of the portfolio of a really good presentation agency. Too much effort? It depends on how you look at it. If you place a high value on selling your products, the service providers you work with should be true experts in their field.
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Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Informatiker Matthias Garten as the expert for multimedia presentations and professional PowerPoint presentations knows about the art of professional slide design. He is an entrepreneur, speaker (TOP 100 Speaker), trainer (TOP 100 Excellence Trainer), multiple book author, presentation coach (presentation training), member of the GSA and Club 55, organizer of the Presentation Conference, Presentation Bootcamp and Presentation Rocket Day. In addition to PowerPoint and presentation training, he inspires and advises companies to present themselves even more effectively and thus stand out from competitors. He is the business owner of the presentation and PowerPoint agency smavicon Best Business Presentations and with his team has created over 10,000 professional PowerPoint presentations for over 150 industries since 1993.
