I design other people’s PowerPoint presentations, and I have seen DREADFUL abuses of this one rule:

Each slide should ‘say’ one thing.

A few bullet points are fine if they are cleverly done and attractive, but too many get scattered and make you look like you’re not confident. Which, as all of us who know you via site, board and podcast know, you are n-o-t.

From a presenter standpoint, the things that helped me most in my 12+ years of pitching as a copywriter are:

1. Practice, practice, practice.
2. Streamline.
3. Practice again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The more you are ‘off-book’, as we say in the acting biz, the more freedom and fun you will have as you present. And that’s what sells the presentation.