Posts by Crystal McKenna Green
PowerPoint Remains the Ultimate Presentation Software
3 Reasons Why We Use PowerPoint 32 Years after Its Release We know PowerPoint, our presentation application of choice, isn’t the new kid on the block. And, honestly, that’s why we trust it. Microsoft has created an application that has stood the test of time after 30+ years. In the world of professional presentations, PowerPoint…
Read More6 Questions You Must Answer Before Building Your First Pitch Deck
How Does Pitch Deck Design Help You Communicate Business Basics & Score Support from Investors? We’re often asked about our process of how we help clients build their first pitch deck (aka investor deck). It’s a popular question because creating your first pitch deck feels daunting. You know what we’re talking about. Have you ever…
Read MoreHow to Know When to Hire a Presentation Designer
4 Tipping Points that Call for Hiring a Professional PowerPoint Presentation Designer It can be easy to get stuck in a do-it-all mindset that you established in the initial days of your business. You did it all because you had to. It was just you. Nonetheless, it was exciting and there was still a… thrill…
Read More2021 Year-End Giving Update
4 Local Organizations Making a Difference in Our Community Ruby + Citrine is fortunate to have the ability to give 3% of our annual profit to local charities that are making a difference in our communities. This year our team decided to donate to four charitable organizations: Feeding America, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (Backpack Buddies), the…
Read MoreIt’s Official: Ruby + Citrine is a Certified Women-Owned Business!
What better way to celebrate Women’s Equality Day — a day where we recognize the accomplishments that so many women fought so hard to achieve — than to announce that Ruby + Citrine has been certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise Network Council! We’ve also been certified as a Women-Owned…
Read More4 Awesome PowerPoint Add-ins for Improving Productivity
As presentation designers who use PowerPoint daily, we’ve come across many PowerPoint add-ins (supplemental programs that add custom commands or custom features), both free and paid, that have helped improve our efficiency. We make it a point to work with PowerPoint add-ins that don’t require the end client to have them installed on their computers…
Read More5 Virtual Presentation Tips for Presenting During COVID-19
With nearly every state having issued a stay-at-home order for nonessential personnel in an effort to flatten the curve in the fight against coronavirus, much of the business world is working from home. Slack and Zoom notifications abound as parents attempt to juggle homeschooling with business calls. While virtual presentations are not a new concept,…
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