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Why communicating with PowerPoint is the new BLACK
A mini-production for translators
It wasn’t long ago that slides looked like…
But now, they are used to communicate efficiently…
…And without speaking.
Separating one slide per topic is fantastic for the reader
You can communicate almost anything
• Blog posts
• Summaries
• Stories
• Ideas
• Advice
• Invoices and proposals
And sales people in other industries have been doing this
for a long time
Most of all, slides are persuasive
• Slides make you focus on what’s important
• Small bits of information go straight into the brain
• But you can build surprisingly complex arguments
• And easily drop MEMEs into your argument
Why not send proposals or even invoices using a slide
deck?
Proposal for translation servicesImprove your performance in new markets
Example of translation proposal
Overview of my proposed services
Localize language usage to best reflect the branding of company x
Help your company do better business in Canada
Layout adjustment in InDesign as required
Translation of 6 files totaling 5,673 words from German to English
My Pricing (paste straight from Excel)
Etc. This is a more persuasive proposal!
Excel integrates completely with PowerPoint – just paste
anything
PowerPoint 2016 is really great
Slides can be uploaded into Slideshares for free
And presentations are easy to make into PDFs
Slideshares are playable in Twitter and elsewhere
Slideshares rank on Google
Use Docsend to send slides -You can see who opened the file and which
slides they looked at
Which comes in handy when you send a proposal
She only looked at my pricing page for 5 seconds before buying!
Or even an invoice
They haven’t even opened my invoice to look at it!
What else is better in slides than in a traditional document?
Coming soon: Translators use Zingword as their professional hub, and to get direct jobs
from translation customers.