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With PowerPoint as your platform, the biggest challenge is communicating your company proposition without fumbling with the tools or dampening its impact. An effective business pitch takes more than a collection of slides; it requires storytelling which involves both logic and emotion with the technical know-how of both design and application. Many times, you as a marketer or founder, are wary of delegating the content work to a staff or a freelancer and understandably so. No freelancer is amazed by your ideas as much as you, right? (Tip: that's false, and I'll try to later explain why). So unless you’re not really fond of Powerpoint, you’d rather articulate the presentation by yourself.‍But the thing is, your topic and your insights still need to be properly framed.

So you’ve got several business presentations lined up this week and you’re tired of building slides from scratch or reusing existing slides which don’t really conform to your overall pitch.The tendency is, you’ll spend countless hours (and days) working and adjusting your PowerPoint or Keynote presentation visuals instead of taking the time to perfect your message and practice your delivery. So when push comes to shove, many would go for ready-to-use presentation templates on Envato or Creative Market with the belief that these pretty visuals will hook the audience right into your presentation. Well, it might work. In fact, you can scroll through hundreds or even thousands of slide design options before deciding on which template pack to choose. The risk, however, is working on a ready-made template which you think will fit the content only to find out a few days later that the template can no longer align or may even constrain your content. So, what’s the best way to start?

Long story short – the hack is about smart use of a Color Picker tool in presentation. But the introduction makes this a bit more meaningful.