Big Fish Presentations
We’ve all taken that college course. An incredibly intelligent professor with an incredibly dull barrage of powerpoint slides. You would have retained substantially more had there been an engaging set of slides to support the lecture. For Louisiana State students, Kenny Nguyen and Gus Murillo, the lackluster powerpoints inspired a stroke of genius.
Anticipating a well composed presentation from a visiting Fortune 500 executive, Nguyen and Murillo left their college auditorium less than impressed.
“It was 200 slides of nothing but text, and he read each one,” Nguyen recalls. “I couldn’t believe the president of one of the world’s biggest companies was presenting like this. I thought, We could do so much better.”
The boys buckled up and bootstrapped their way to the top, “using personal computers to create presentations and upgrading software after clients paid their invoices”. After being approached by ABC”s Shark Tank, Nguyen and Murillo realized their idea was a winner.
In 2011, they officially launched their business, Big Fish Presentation, transforming the “boring” slides of old, into presentations which convey stories and “resonated emotionally with viewers for effective promotion of products”.
With a basic package price of $2,500, Big Fish Presentations delivers a quality service, ensuring “audiences will always remember the presenter more than the presentation”.
Today, Murillo acts as the company’s COO, while Nguyen has taken the reigns of the business as CEO. He says his decision reflects the fact that “we make our clients a promise that no one is going to be more passionate and driven about creating a great presentation than we are.”
By developing a remedy for “less than captivating” presentations, Big Fish Presentations has created a niche market, radiating a light for innovators to come.
Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227133#ixzz2mNPYOMRH
Interesting idea. PowerPoints can be really distracting if they’re done poorly. I’m glad to hear that somebody saw this as a problem, and decided to do something about it. I also think it’s funny to hear that a Fortune 500 executive’s bad presentation inspired them.
I thought this was interesting because I have often heard people talk about how old and boring powerpoints tend to be, however, nobody really knows what else to do. So, it is cool to hear that they have found a successful way to make better presentations. We’ll see if it really catches on.
It is very interesting to hear about a new way to demonstrate presentations. I feel like this day and age many people have become complacent, using the same presentation methods for every project they have. Great to see a new outlook on presentations and hopefully it is a success.
This is a great idea but I am not sure how well it will work for universities and executives. I can see public speakers and presenters using this to its fullest, though. $2500 is a lot to pay for a presentation. They found a niche market and if they tweaked their idea a little they could access a few more markets.