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Bet a hundred dollars you have never used the double exposure effect in your presentation before! I never have. If you have, kudos!   You have seen this effect on Instagram, music videos, photography websites, and posters. Two photos blending together to create a surreal effect. Double Exposure makes your composition suddenly stand out from […]

A Butterfly Chart (also called a Tornado chart) is a visualization technique to compare two sets of data series that share the same parameters. Two bar charts are displayed side by side so that the difference between two data series can be analysed at a glance.   The chart gets its name butterfly since there […]

Do you want your audience to say “Wow” when they look at your slides? And hear the wow get bigger and louder when you tell them you created those slides on your own, that too in PowerPoint!   That’s right. We are not bluffing. You have seen the banner image already. That was created in […]

After analysing hundreds of successful speakers, I have come to the conclusion that the art of persuasion lies is mastering 3 ingredients. They are…   If you ignore the 3 golden principles of communication, you will never be a successful communicator!   Research says 85% of your financial success is due to your personality and […]

So you have a brilliant idea for a startup? Great. You might be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Elon Musk. Why not? A small but brilliant idea can shake the world.   But every entrepreneur knows that idea alone is not enough. You need money, lots of it, to set the wheels in […]

Nothing gives more personal touch to a design than a handwritten font. Whether that design is a letter, a quotation slide, a quirky message on a T-shirt, a warm wish on an invitation card or your favorite phrase on your pillow. You need a gorgeous cursive typeface to warm the eyes and heart. If it […]

Fonts, fonts everywhere but not a font to choose…   Have you ever faced the frustration of choosing a good font for your presentation or other design? You pick one font after next from the drop-down list and with each there is a mild to extreme “Nay!”. There might be over 100 fonts available in […]

A Use Case template or a case study tells your success story to the world. Rather you can say it tells your customers’ success story to the world. What were the challenges your customers were facing? What solution did your company offer? And what benefits did they experience thanks to your solution? A use case […]

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that believes “change is good”. “Kai” means change and “zen” means good. In business settings, Kaizen is also a strategic tool that brings about continuous improvement, in terms of increased productivity, superior quality, lower costs, efficient processes, increased safety, and better customer experience. The word “Continuous” is worth remembering here […]

“Strategy is just a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action.”  Ellie Pidot   Strategy may just be a fancy word but for any organization, it is THE word that matters the most. It gives the company direction and without direction, anybody is lost.   A Business Strategy […]