If you're cramming lots of detail and data into your slide deck, expecting that your audience will take the time to absorb it later when you circulate the deck, beware. A new infographic,
Don't suck at meetings, from online meeting platform Sales Crunch, zeroes in on just how many of your slides get read after the presentation. The take-home lesson?
Shorter slide decks get read more, and read for longer periods of time. I've excerpted that part of the infographic for you, below, and here are the numbers to know:
- Short is sweet: A short deck of slides from 1-20 pages in length will be read fully 40 percent of the time. Recipients will spend 52 seconds reading each page of a slide deck if it is 1-10 pages in length.
- Medium is more rare: A medium-sized deck, from 20-40 pages, will be read 25 percent of the time. Your readers will spend 35 seconds per page if the deck is 41-50 pages long.
- Long isn't strong: A long deck--more than 40 pages--is read fully just 14 percent of the time, and each page gets just 10 seconds of attention if the deck is more than 100 pages.
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