Accurate pricing from your agency is essential
Agencies that don’t work in PowerPoint a lot don’t appreciate how long things take. If an agency is used to delivering more ‘conceptual’ work, the attention to detail and sheer number of iterations necessary to get PowerPoint right can come as a surprise. Once an agency spends longer than they want to on a project the enthusiasm goes and the quality suffers. An agency that specialises in presentations will be used to these issues.
Creatives shouldn’t see PowerPoint as a punishment
In the agency world, it’s fair to say that PowerPoint phone numbers in morocco design sits somewhere at the bottom of the pile, below Illustrator and Photoshop and InDesign and even origami and textiles and modelling clay. And perhaps just marginally above being hit in the face with a rotten fish. A lot of creatives just hate PowerPoint. We think that’s unfair – it’s just misunderstood, but it can be frustrating and it does take getting used to.
If you are going to work with a marketing agency for presentation design, make sure they have people who love creating presentations. Otherwise, use a presentation agency where you can be sure of it.
Given all of these reasons to go with a specialist presentation design agency, why do so many companies just go with their ‘regular’ agency for presentations? They typically pay more and get less. Often it’s just a desire to have fewer suppliers, and a sense that presentations are easy (and perhaps also not that important):
Working with fewer suppliers can be great – but when a supplier is working outside their main area of expertise it ends up taking you far longer to manage them.
Some presentations aren’t that important – but when they are how you sell, or launch initiatives, or talk to investors – they often really matter.
Working with a specialist presentation agency (such as BrightCarbon, but others are available) will generally deliver better results, with less effort, and typically at lower cost.