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2. Company Status

3. 2009 – A DIFFICULT YEAR Challenges Economic slowdown Too much inventory led to discounting and low margins Expenses reduced 20% Layoffs Benefits Budget cuts across the board Sales Difficulty extended to competitors as well

4. 2010 OUTLOOK Demand will come back. You’re reading ahead! (Everyone does if there’s too much text)

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7. More bullets here

8. Even more

9. Against all odds, more bullet points

10. Count ‘em

11. There’s so many

12. Hard to believe

13. Bullet here

14. Bullet there

15. So many bullets!

16. Easy to ignore

17. Generally unhelpfulSmall Bullet Points

20. 2009a difficult year

21. 2009

22. 2009 Expenses $350M Income $135M

23. 2010 projection “Cautiously optimistic”

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25. 2009

27. Too much inventory 41%

29. Expenses Income

30. 2009 2009 2009 2009

31. Consumers in 2010?

32. Cautious comeback Less cash

33. Thank you.

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36. Images are better than text Image TEXT There are so many important things to say Don’t want to leave anything out Don’t forget this tidbit And there’s more here Will they remember this? Yet another point Bear Did you catch that? You missed the most important part

37. Big is better than little Can you find the word BEAR? Find the BEAR. Here it is. But it’s hard to find if there’s lots of text on the page, even if it’s first. Why would you add so much extra text to the slide? It’s easy to copy and paste lots of text from a word document. But no one cares. No one will remember all this. Look how long it is. There’s no reason not to keep the font size large and the text limited. little big

38. Simple is better than colorful Simple, High contrast Lots of colors

39. Ok. Color for important stuff. There are so many important things to say Don’t want to leave anything out Don’t forget this tidbit And there’s more here Will they remember this? Yet another point Bear I just said it. Did you catch that? You missed the most important part Un-highlighted highlighted There are so many important things to say Don’t want to leave anything out Don’t forget this tidbit And there’s more here Will they remember this? Yet another point Bear I just said it. Did you catch that? You missed the most important part

40. Bars are better than pies bar pie

41. Outlined tables are harder to read Lineless table Lined table

42. The Links This presentation The default Theme file 2009 logo