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Why Google Slides beats Powerpoint Presentation What is Google Slides?

September 19, 2016 by Blake Leave a Comment

Gone are the days when we had to buy expensive software because there were no affordable (Free) cloud solutions. There were no online or cloud video editors, no cloud storage, no collaborative and project management solutions.

Today we can do almost everything online from tough tasks like video editing to simple image cropping. Google has been the industry leader in providing cloud services which have been adopted by business because of the usability and features they provide.

Google provides slide presentation services which are crushing Microsoft Powerpoint. Lets get into why everyone should use Google slide presentation.

Easy Accessibility, Offline and Online Syncing

Google slides are easy to access and you can sync your drive offline and online. Access your Google slide anywhere from your mobile devices, your laptop and your desktop. You just need to login to your Gmail account.

You can sync your drive online and access your documents on your computer or you could access them offline as well.

Easy to search any documents in Google Drive
If you are working with a lot of documents, it’s quite obvious to forget where you have saved the documents and there is a possibly that your docs could get lost in the forest of folders on your computer. In Google drive it’s easy to search any document, you just need to insert name of the document in the search bar and you get your document easily.

Collaborate with your team and use it as project management

Google slides can be created with your team or virtual assistants because it can be accessed from anywhere anytime. You can discuss projects with your team members and make necessary changes, suggest edits, insert notes and comments to increase the productivity of team members and increase the pace of project completion.

Themes and templates

Google slides provide plenty of themes for free and there are many resources which provide free Google slides themes which download or create copy of. These themes and templates are easy to edit and with just a little bit of editing you are ready to get started with your slideshow presentation.

Security

Google slides are more secure than Microsoft Powerpoint presentation slides and you can access them anywhere anytime. Cloud storage is very safe as compared to computer storage. Your computer hard drive can crash and your slides could get affected by a virus.

Embed your slides on your website and emails

Google slides can embed on your websites and emails. Offline Powerpoint presentations can’t be embedded online. You can embed your slides on your website to increase your brand visibility by showing your products and services.

Freebies

People love free stuff and with Google slides you can giveaway your slide templates and themes, case studies and industry insights through Google slides. You can share your slides as freebies to your audience to increase your email list.

Create videos with your Google slides

You can create videos on Microsoft office 10 and onwards but there is a huge learning curve involved in creating videos from your presentation. You need to sync your voice with your slides. You need to set resolution and there are many such things which make this task harder than what you think.

There is a simple and effective DIY presentation video creator which a novice can use. It’s Vidcredible, it is an incredibly easy to use video creator for small and medium scale business. This tool helps businesses to get started with video marketing.

To know more about Vidcredible click here.

How to create a webinar? Tips on how to do a webinar and make slides.

August 26, 2016 by Blake Leave a Comment

Are your into webinar and want to know how to engage your audience or how to create engaging slides?

Before starting your webinar you have to welcome your attendees with a short slide presentation on who you are and what they will learn in webinar.

Seeing a blank powerpoint slide and thinking “Oh my jeez please help me” is normal, you know what it’s called? It is called death by powerpoint. Even your audience can feel “ Please save me from this boring powerpoint presentation”. I am sure you have seen a lot of boring powerpoint presentations.

There are many mistakes that webinar creators do while creating slide presentation Just to mention a few- too much text, transition and unnecessary information etc. In this blog post we are going to cover points which are not only helpful for webinar makers but also for anyone who creates slide presentation.

If you don’t want to ruin your reputation and you are interested in increasing your audience engagement, here are points to consider while creating your powerpoint presentation.

Start with the value that they are going to get in your webinar

Start with what value they are going to get and what they are going to learn in the webinar. Give reasons why they should attend your webinar and stay tuned while you are setting up the webinar at the backend.

This increases interest because they want to learn something which is going to solve their problem, give results and increase their business efficiency.

Remember, less is more.

As Seth Godin says “less is more” and yes it is. He says “No more than six words on a slide” but that’s quite extreme. I recommend about 10 to 15 words. You don’t need a single word if your image is conveying your message, – an image is worth a thousand words.

Be concise and don’t add useless information in your slides. If it’s necessary cover it in different slides. The more words you use your audience will become distracted and become less attentive.

No Paragraphs At All
Don’t write paragraphs on your slide. Your audience want to hear from you, they do not want to read boring slides and a bunch of text.

Use appropriate fonts
Use appropriate fonts while creating your slides, don’t use confusing and fancy fonts.

Avoid detailed reports, charts and stats
Avoid creating lists of bullets. Don’t make your audience read. Make your graphs easy to understand and scannable. Be ready with the points to cover on specific slides.

Add stories to make it interesting and engaging

People love and remember stories, include storytelling in your presentation to engage your audience. This is one of the reasons video marketing always work and videos goes viral- because there are stories and emotions.

Share your slides with your audience for better conversion

After finishing your slideshow, share your slide with your audience so they can follow up with you. Upload/create presentation on Google Slide so you could share it easily. You can create video from Google Slide and upload it on popular distribution channels.

Create video from your slides
It’s been proven that videos are much more engaging and increase conversion rate. Videos are going viral. Videos are getting shared on social media.
Vidcredible is an incredible cloud-based application for video creation from slides.

It also provides video optimization and distribution.

You don’t need to download any software. Get started with Vidcredible for just one dollar today.

How to convert powerpoint to video? Convert ppt to video fast converter

June 14, 2016 by Blake Leave a Comment

Jimmy was staring at blank slide and had no idea how he is going create video from Powerpoint presentation. The actual problem was he had no idea on how to create professional Powerpoint presentation either. He knew he sucks at designing and he had no time to learn Powerpoint designing and screencasting.

Have you gone through this situation? I am sure you have.

It’s called Death by PowerPoint. It’s making your audience too bore and dead with your Powerpoint presentation. Boring text slides, lack of designing skill, no voice over and no background music makes Powerpoint slides and videos deadly.

The presentation star Blake entered in Jimmy’s cabin and he noticed Jimmy was depressed. He asked “what’s the problem”. Jimmy “I don’t know how to create an attractive video from Powerpoint presentation”?

When Blake told him there is a solution and you don’t even need Powerpoint. Jimmy said, “creating presentation videos without Powerpoint is impossible”. Then Blake introduced “Vidcredible”; an all in one solution for video creation, SEO and distribution software for marketers.

Jimmy was stunned by the simplistic interface of Vidcredible and within few hours Jimmy was ready with an attractive presentation video.

I know above scenario is unbelievable but we are going to make it believable. Gone are the days when you need to buy expensive screencasting software and spend hours and hours on creating powerful Powerpoint videos.

Here are 4 compelling reasons, why it’s death of recording your videos on Powerpoint presentation and Vidcredible is future of creating videos from Powerpoint.

Easy to Use InterfaceVidcredible is so easy, even a toddler can use it.
1. You upload your video/Google Slide/images or you can start from the scratch.
2. You add your voice over to individual slides and add background music from the library.
3. You research your niche and get insights on which videos are ranking. You optimize your video with attractive title and description.
4. Boom! You are ready to create, distribute, monetize and download your video.

Awesome Google Slide Themes (Template)
- Google slide has an array of creative and professional editable themes. There are plenty of sites which provide free Google Slide themes and templates. One of my favourite is slidescarnival.com
- Google slides are easily accessible and the ability to share your slides with team makes it’s a collaborative project management tool.
- Google slide is secure and reliable than your personal computer. (Your computer can get virus or broken anytime)

No Expensive Software (Screenflow and Camtasia)
- You don’t need to buy software like Screenflow or Camtasia nor Microsoft office for Powerpoint presentation. Video and audio editing software are essential for presentation video creation but they are not affordable and easy to use.

No Learning Curve
- Vidcredible has no to very little learning curve. Software like Camtasia takes a lot of time to understand the nitty gritty technicalities and get familiar with the tools. Vidcredible’s training session has few videos which are easy to understand.

So how Vidcredible works,
Get professional themes from the Google’s theme collection

Google has plenty of slide themes to choose. Choose theme according to your requirement
Here is an example,

Add Audio – Make Your Slide Speak, add narration and background to your slides

Create Your Project – Go to creation tab and create your project.

There are plenty of options – Upload your video, Create video from Google Slides, Upload Your Images or Create It from the Scratch the option is yours.

You are able to add your voice over on any slide. Just click on the slide and hit record, once you are happy with the slide save it. Add background music from existing audio library; choose the level of background music and save it.

Research – Get Insights from YouTube

Get insights on videos which are ranking for your keyword and niche. Get hundreds of ideas for title, description of your video which helps to rank your videos. Get the SEO-friendly title and description for your videos which outrank your competitors.

Once you’re done with your video title and description you are ready to distribute your video with one single click.

You can even connect up your own social media and video networks!

Distribute – With One Click Distribute Your Video on All Major Social Medias

Distribute your video within your network with just one single click think it as a magic submitter. It will submit your video on all major social media which you have added in your network.

Embedded Your How It Works Video

Creating videos from on Powerpoint presentation is not easy at it seems or promoted by screencasting software. Most of the people stuck on the first black Powerpoint slide. There is plenty of pre-recording work involves which no one talks about. Audio and slide mismatch is nightmare for video creators.

So if you don’t want to spend your valuable time on video and audio editing, designing creative slides and create powerful video from Powerpoint with few simple steps try Vidcredible for $1 only.