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The thought of disrupting your workflow to onboard a new software can be overwhelming. That’s why many people will fight through their frustrations with older presentation software, like PowerPoint, to avoid learning something new. But change can be Beautiful (see what we did there?).
Like with anything, there’s a learning curve with new technology before you feel like you can successfully rinse and repeat for scalability. You have to put in the time to learn how it can work for you, and then you’ll reap the benefits like time-savings.
A pilot year at Beautiful.ai
You’ve heard of the saying “use it or lose it,” which typically refers to something you need to use by a set date, or you will lose the opportunity. While you won’t lose Beautiful.ai, you might miss out on some of the key benefits if you aren’t actively using it. If you’re new to our presentation software, here’s what a typical pilot year looks like for our customers:
- Average number of decks created: 3.29
- Average number of slides created: 30
- Average number of slide edits: 58
- Average number of slide and/or presentation shares: 10
- Average create-to-share ratio: 3
With those numbers in mind, these are 5 ways that you can get the most out of your Beautiful.ai account within the first year.
1. Create a presentation (or three)
This may be obvious, but the best way to learn is to do. To explore what Beautiful.ai has to offer, you need to get in there and create a presentation. No two presentations are built the same, so the more you create, the more you’ll discover. The average number of decks created by our customers within their first year is 3.29. We’d be willing to bet after three presentations under your belt, you’ll start to get that hang of things.
2. Explore all of the Smart Slide templates
Beautiful.ai has over 60 Smart Slide templates— charts, infographics, bulleted slides, collages, and more— for you to choose from. Only you will know what’s right for your deck, but with a vast library of Smart Slides to choose from they might inspire you to think outside the box and structure your story in a new way. On average, users create 30 slides within their pilot year. While that’s only half the number of slides in the template library, that gives you a good starting point to see what’s available and quickly find what fits your needs best.
3. Let Smart Slides work for you
More times than not, users come for our presentations but stay for the Smart Slides. The real magic of Smart Slides happens in the thick of your editing process. Our Smart Slide technology takes on the heavy lifting of design while you drop in your content, so you never have to worry about aligning text boxes and resizing elements. Within the first year, the average user has made at least 58 edits in Beautiful.ai. This is how you will familiarize yourself with all of the unique features and tools within our presentation software. Things like animations, layout variations, formats, colors, and font style and size can all be tailored to your brand or style during the editing process.
4. Collaborate with your team
There’s strength in numbers, and when it comes to presentation design, getting the whole team in Beautiful.ai can help make it a more seamless transition. Assign your colleagues a slide, or leave feedback in real-time, to get a department out the door faster. With more people in the product, you’ll be able to cover more ground in less time and collectively learn the features that make sense for your team.
5. Share your work
Your work in Beautiful.ai isn’t done until you’ve shared it. On average, users share 10 presentations or slides in year one— a create to share ratio of 3. When you share your presentation, you will find new features like shareable links with optional password protection and expiration dates, and an analytics dashboard to help measure the success of your deck. The more you share, the more feedback you’ll receive, which will help you make better design decisions on future decks.
