Learn about Presentations

Learn how to give better presentations. These free tutorials will give you tips on public speaking and show you the best pitch deck templates to download.

Getting started with Presentations

  • Importance of Body Language in Presentations: +How to Use It Effectively

    Importance of Body Language in Presentations: +How to Use It Effectively

    Brenda Barron
  • How to Give a Presentation to Senior Management & Executives (+ Expert Tips)

    How to Give a Presentation to Senior Management & Executives (+ Expert Tips)

    Sharon Hurley Hall
  • How to Quickly Add Good Animations to Your PowerPoint PPT Presentations

    How to Quickly Add Good Animations to Your PowerPoint PPT Presentations

    Andrew Childress
  • How to Tell Effective Visual Stories in Your PowerPoint Presentations (+Video)

    How to Tell Effective Visual Stories in Your PowerPoint Presentations (+Video)

    Andrew Childress
    1. Jump-Start Guide to Essential Business Presentation Skills

      Jump-Start Guide to Essential Business Presentation Skills

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this article you'll discover what you must do to feel confident when you've set yourself the challenge of making a business presentation. Get a thorough...

    2. How to Craft a VC-Ready Pitch Deck

      How to Craft a VC-Ready Pitch Deck

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this tutorial, discover a framework for building a concise pitch deck, based on the information most venture capitalists agree is important to include....

    3. How to Create an Audience for Your Authority Blog

      How to Create an Audience for Your Authority Blog

      Tutorial Beginner

      For most bloggers, their authority site is nothing without an audience. Even those who proclaim to write just for the sheer enjoyment of writing readily...

    4. 7 Ways to Monetize Your Speaking, Beyond Selling Your Services

      7 Ways to Monetize Your Speaking, Beyond Selling Your Services

      Tutorial Beginner

      There are far more unpaid speaking gigs in the world than there are paid opportunities. Even major events like TED don't pay their speakers. Yet taking an...

    5. Getting Started With Keynote on OS X

      Getting Started With Keynote on OS X

      Tutorial Beginner

      Over the past couple of tutorials, I've showed you the basics of Pages and Numbers, two incredibly powerful yet highly functional components of Apple's iWork...

    6. Using Speaking to Market the Products and Services You Sell

      Using Speaking to Market the Products and Services You Sell

      Tutorial Beginner

      While many speakers earn money for each speaking engagement they land, the real money is often in using your speaking engagements to sell the products and...

    7. What Should You Be Speaking About?

      What Should You Be Speaking About?

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this tutorial, we'll cover how to select topics for speaking engagements. Your topic can make or break you, if your goal is to sell a product or a service...

    8. What You Need to Know to Improve Your Public Speaking

      What You Need to Know to Improve Your Public Speaking

      Tutorial Beginner

      Public speaking is hard: we've all heard that it's the most common fear, above and beyond death. Everybody in the room is staring at you, which is enough to...

    9. 22 Tips: Designing an Effective Slide Deck Presentation

      22 Tips: Designing an Effective Slide Deck Presentation

      Tutorial Beginner

      Every once in awhile an opportunity arises for freelancers to present their work or expertise to peers and prospective clients. Agreeing to take part is at...

    10. 25+ Professional Resources for Improving Your Presentation Skills

      25+ Professional Resources for Improving Your Presentation Skills

      Tutorial Beginner

      According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the...

    11. The 15-Step Freelance Writers' Guide to Writing for Magazines

      The 15-Step Freelance Writers' Guide to Writing for Magazines

      Tutorial Beginner

      Do you have this dream? You go down to your nearest big newsstand one day and check out all those big, glossy magazines. You flip one of your favorites...

    12. Essential Steps to Submitting an Article to a Magazine

      Essential Steps to Submitting an Article to a Magazine

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you're looking to be a freelance writer, your bread and butter will likely be submitting articles to magazines. And while the big names in the business...