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Small Business Plan Template

Small business plans are an essential first step towards the success of your company. Small business plan presentations serve as a strategic blueprint you can share with potential investors, possible partners, and interested parties. You’ll need an overview of your business’s goals, basic strategy, marketing tactics, finances, and a profitability forecast, etc. A comprehensive and well-prepared presentation will instill confidence in your audience. Our small business plan example will help you bring structure to and build interest in your organization’s strategy. Convey your company’s potential for success, get funding, and build partnerships using our small business plan presentation. 

Our small business plan presentation template can help your company: 

• Secure funding
• Solidify partnerships
• Outline company goals

Let our Small Business Plan Template help your company reach its goals

Developing a small business plan presentation requires a detailed strategy and can extend over many slides. Use a combination of the following slides to best showcase your company:

Pro tips for securing partners and funding for your company

Ensure your presentation generates the interest your business deserves by creating a stellar deck with this advice:

First impressions matter, ensure your entire presentation is clear, concise, and free of errors. Typos can distract from even the best small business plan presentation.

Who are you presenting to and why? Make sure your Executive Summary slide is straightforward and to the point. Are you looking for investors? A partner? Set your goals and expectations at the start of your presentation.

What makes your business better than a competitor’s? Make sure to reassure clients of your market advantages and how you intend to leverage them.

Small business plans can be lengthy so make sure that information is spread over various slides. You can build momentum by reading your audience and adjusting your presentation speed as needed.

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Small Business PowerPoint Deck

The professional Small Business PowerPoint Deck is a complete template designed to help small businesses and startups create their corporate presentations. The Small Business presentation template is made under a homogeneous theme, ideal for organizations without predefined branding. The palette is configurable, allowing the user to customize its appearance with simple PowerPoint tools.

Small businesses are privately owned corporations, by sole proprietorship or under partnerships. The term small considers those organizations between one (1) to five hundred (500) employees. Small businesses are considered the engine of economies. Governments and private sectors are constantly encouraging entrepreneurs to build their small businesses to dynamize the economy. These small organizations are the primary source of jobs and consumption. Countries with a healthy small business ecosystem are prone to high development.

The  Small Business PowerPoint Deck is divided into sections that cover the traditional areas of every business:

• About Us: Small Businesses can describe a brief history of their company, mission, vision, and why they do what they do.
• Services: This section should describe the value proposition and how the small business implements it with its product/service mix.
• Our Team: In any small business, people are the sources of everything. Presenting the team to customers or partners is fundamental.
• Ideas: When trying to win a customer or during any business meeting, presenting the ideas to discuss is a part of every meeting.
• Portfolio: Why did you do it? This is one of many questions you should answer for your customers. How are you? It should also be described. Showing previous success scenarios is a great technique to show the how.
• Analysis: Every business is particular. The specified analysis of the scenario should be presented.
• Our Clients: Brands engage. Sharing your existing customers is an excellent way of showing credibility.
• Contact: Always provide your contact information.

Each of the sections is created with a modern layout. Every slide is decorated with professional Flat design PowerPoint shapes. The template is crafted to engage your audience. You can save time creating your next corporate slide just edition this ready-made Small Business PowerPoint Deck . Alternatively, you can download other business presentation templates for PowerPoint & Google Slides , with 100% editable placeholders.

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• 30 Mar 2023

To help you in your quest for presentation greatness, we’ve gathered 23 of the best business presentation examples out there. These hand-picked ideas range from business PowerPoint presentations, to recruitment presentations, and everything in between.

As a bonus, several of our examples include editable video presentation templates from  Biteable .

Biteable allows anyone to create great video presentations — no previous video-making skills required. The easy-to-use platform has hundreds of brandable templates and video scenes designed with a business audience in mind. A video made with Biteable is just what you need to add that wow factor and make an impact on your audience.

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Video presentation examples

Video presentations are our specialty at Biteable. We love them because they’re the most visually appealing and memorable way to communicate.

1. Animated characters

Our first presentation example is a business explainer from Biteable that uses animated characters. The friendly and modern style makes this the perfect presentation for engaging your audience.

Bonus template:  Need a business video presentation that reflects the beautiful diversity of your customers or team? Use  Biteable’s workplace scenes . You can change the skin tone and hair color for any of the animated characters.

2. Conference video

Videos are also ideal solutions for events (e.g. trade shows) where they can be looped to play constantly while you attend to more important things like talking to people and handing out free cheese samples.

For this event presentation sample below, we used bright colours, stock footage, and messaging that reflects the brand and values of the company. All these elements work together to draw the attention of passers-by.

For a huge selection of video presentation templates, take a look at our  template gallery .

Business PowerPoint presentation examples

Striking fear into the hearts of the workplace since 1987, PowerPoint is synonymous with bland, boring presentations that feel more like an endurance test than a learning opportunity. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Check out these anything-but-boring business PowerPoint presentation examples.

3. Design pointers

This PowerPoint presentation takes a tongue-in-cheek look at how the speakers and users of PowerPoint are the problem, not the software itself.

Even at a hefty 61 slides, the vintage theme, appealing colors, and engaging content keep the viewer interested. It delivers useful and actionable tips on creating a better experience for your audience.

Pixar, as you’d expect, redefines the meaning of PowerPoint in their “22 Rules for Phenomenal Storytelling”. The character silhouettes are instantly recognizable and tie firmly to the Pixar brand. The bright colour palettes are carefully chosen to highlight the content of each slide.

This presentation is a good length, delivering one message per slide, making it easy for an audience to take notes and retain the information.

Google slides examples

If you’re in business, chances are you’ll have come across  slide decks . Much like a deck of cards, each slide plays a key part in the overall ‘deck’, creating a well-rounded presentation.

If you need to inform your team, present findings, or outline a new strategy, slides are one of the most effective ways to do this.

Google Slides is one of the best ways to create a slide deck right now. It’s easy to use and has built-in design tools that integrate with Adobe, Lucidchart, and more. The best part — it’s free!

5. Teacher education

Here’s a slide deck that was created to educate teachers on how to use Google Slides effectively in a classroom. At first glance it seems stuffy and businessy, but if you look closer it’s apparent the creator knows his audience well, throwing in some teacher-friendly content that’s bound to get a smile.

The slides give walkthrough screenshots and practical advice on the different ways teachers can use the software to make their lives that little bit easier and educate their students at the same time.

6. Charity awareness raiser

This next Google slide deck is designed to raise awareness for an animal shelter. It has simple, clear messaging, and makes use of the furry friends it rescues to tug on heartstrings and encourage donations and adoptions from its audience.

Pro tip: Creating a presentation is exciting but also a little daunting. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed — especially if the success of your business or nonprofit depends on it.

Prezi presentation examples

If you haven’t come across  Prezi , it’s a great alternative to using static slides. Sitting somewhere between slides and a video presentation, it allows you to import other content and add motion to create a more engaging viewer experience.

7. Red Bull event recap

This Prezi was created to document the Red Bull stratosphere freefall stunt a few years ago. It neatly captures all the things that Prezi is capable of, including video inserts and the zoom effect, which gives an animated, almost 3D effect to what would otherwise be still images.  

Prezi has annual awards for the best examples of presentations over the year. This next example is one of the 2018 winners. It was made to highlight a new Logitech tool.

8. Logitech Spotlight launch

What stands out here are the juicy colors, bold imagery, and the way the designer has used Prezi to its full extent, including rotations, panning, fades, and a full zoom out to finish the presentation.

Sales presentation examples

If you’re stuck for ideas for your sales presentation, step right this way and check out this video template we made for you.

9. Sales enablement video presentation

In today’s fast-paced sales environment, you need a way to make your sales enablement presentations memorable and engaging for busy reps.  Sales enablement videos  are just the ticket. Use this video presentation template the next time you need to present on your metrics.

10. Zuroa sales deck

If you’re after a sales deck, you can’t go past this example from Zuora. What makes it great? It begins by introducing the worldwide shift in the way consumers are shopping. It’s a global phenomenon, and something we can all relate to.

It then weaves a compelling story about how the subscription model is changing the face of daily life for everyone. Metrics and testimonials from well-known CEOs and executives are included for some slamming social proof to boost the sales message.

Pitch presentation examples

Pitch decks are used to give an overview of business plans, and are usually presented during meetings with customers, investors, or potential partners.

11. Uber pitch deck

This is Uber’s original pitch deck, which (apart from looking a teensy bit dated) gives an excellent overview of their business model and clearly shows how they intended to disrupt a traditional industry and provide a better service to people. Right now, you’re probably very grateful that this pitch presentation was a winner.

You can make your own pitch deck with Biteable, or start with one of our  video templates  to make something a little more memorable.

12. Video pitch template

This video pitch presentation clearly speaks to the pains of everyone who needs to commute and find parking. It then provides the solution with its app that makes parking a breeze.

The video also introduces the key team members, their business strategy, and what they’re hoping to raise in funding. It’s a simple, clear pitch that positions the company as a key solution to a growing, worldwide problem. It’s compelling and convincing, as a good presentation should be.

13. Fyre Festival pitch deck

The most epic example of a recent pitch deck is this one for Fyre Festival – the greatest event that never happened. Marvel at its persuasion, gasp at the opportunity of being part of the cultural experience of the decade, cringe as everything goes from bad to worse.

Despite the very public outcome, this is a masterclass in how to create hype and get funding with your pitch deck using beautiful imagery, beautiful people, and beautiful promises of riches and fame.

Business presentation examples

Need to get the right message out to the right people? Business presentations can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

Simply press play and let your video do the talking. No fumbling your words and sweating buckets in front of those potential clients, just you being cool as a cucumber while your presentation does the talking.

Check out two of our popular templates that you can use as a starting point for your own presentations. While they’re business-minded, they’re definitely not boring.

14. Business intro template

Modern graphics, animations, and upbeat soundtracks keep your prospects engaged as they learn about your business, your team, your values, and how you can help them.

15. Business explainer template

Research presentation examples.

When you’re giving a more technical presentation such as research findings, you need to strike the perfect balance between informing your audience and making sure they stay awake.

As a rule, slides are more effective for research presentations, as they are used to support the speaker’s knowledge rather can capture every small detail on screen.

With often dry, complex, and technical subject matter, there can be a temptation for presentations to follow suit. Use images instead of walls of text, and keep things as easy to follow as possible.

16. TrackMaven research deck

TrackMaven uses their endearing mascot to lighten up this data-heavy slide deck. The graphs help to bring life to their findings, and they ensure to only have one bite-size takeaway per slide so that viewers can easily take notes.

17. Wearable tech research report

Obviously, research can get very researchy and there’s not a lot to be done about it. This slide deck below lays out a ton of in-depth information but breaks it up well with quotes, diagrams, and interesting facts to keep viewers engaged while it delivers its findings on wearable technology.

Team presentation examples

Motivating your team can be a challenge at the best of times, especially when you need to gather them together for….another presentation!

18. Team update template

We created this presentation template as an example of how to engage your team. In this case, it’s for an internal product launch. Using colorful animation and engaging pacing, this video presentation is much better than a static PowerPoint, right?

19. Officevibe collaboration explainer

This short slide deck is a presentation designed to increase awareness of the problems of a disengaged team. Bright colors and relevant images combine with facts and figures that compel viewers to click through to a download to learn more about helping their teams succeed.

Recruitment presentation examples

Recruiting the right people can be a challenge. Presentations can help display your team and your business by painting a dynamic picture of what it’s like to work with you.

Videos and animated slides let you capture the essence of your brand and workplace so the right employees can find you.

20. Company culture explainer

If you’re a recruitment agency, your challenge is to stand out from the hundreds of other agencies in the marketplace.

21. Kaizen culture

Showcasing your agency using a slide deck can give employers and employees a feel for doing business with you. Kaizen clearly displays its credentials and highlights its brand values and personality here (and also its appreciation of the coffee bean).

Explainer presentation examples

Got some explaining to do? Using an explainer video is the ideal way to showcase products that are technical, digital, or otherwise too difficult to explain with still images and text.

Explainer videos help you present the features and values of your product in an engaging way that speaks to your ideal audience and promotes your brand at the same time.

22. Product explainer template

23. lucidchart explainer.

Lucidchart does a stellar job of using explainer videos for their software. Their series of explainers-within-explainers entertains the viewer with cute imagery and an endearing brand voice. At the same time, the video is educating its audience on how to use the actual product. We (almost) guarantee you’ll have more love for spiders after watching this one.

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15 Slideshare Presentations That Every Small Business Owner Should See

When was the last time you listened to a lecture, or heard someone speak and there wasn’t a slideshow playing in the background? Unless your answer was 1547 you’re probably lying (or going to the wrong kind of lecture). Slideshows give content creators the ability to condense, simplify, and, at the same time, magnify what they are saying into easy to read and easy to understand slides.

Granted, not everyone learns better through visualization, but the majority of people do . With that in mind, we wanted to create a list of Slideshare presentations that can be used as a solid base of information for any small business owner. These slides are not only informative, but also easy to read and understand due to their design.

So sit back, and enjoy these 15 slideshows that will help you with your business.

1. The Art of Branding by Guy Kawasaki, Canva

2. brand trust: the six drivers of trust by nick black, concerto marketing, 3. how to name things by victor pineiro, big spaceship, social media and marketing, 4. 10 big social media challenges (and how the right tactics can address them) by rand fishkin, moz, 5. 6 ways to create great content in 15 minutes a day by mark schaefer, 6. 11 secret ingredients to viral facebook posts by ross simmonds, 7. 10 ways to do marketing without a budget by iris shoor, takipi, 8. social media crisis management by simon kemp, we are social singapore, 9. what anchorman 2 did is kind of a big deal by gary vaynerchuck, 10. how to get local tv, radio & newspaper coverage for your business by fit small business, pr and customer happiness, 11. imagine your customer becomes your friend by steven van belleghem, b-conversational, 12. 9 pr posters for your office walls by prezly, 13. 6 keys to creating a stronger customer experience by sap, presenting skills, 14. make your presentation memorable by ethos3, 15. your sales pitch sucks, and what you can do about it by slides that rock, moving forward.

The internet is full to the brim with outstanding (and not so outstanding) advice. In this post we tried to gather together a taste of that for you, while also providing you with some great examples of how visual content can be utilized for your business. Now that you have this taste, we encourage you to think about which of these is most important to your business, or needs the most work, and to sharpen your knowledge of that by continuing to explore and search for new information that will help you along the way.

Zack is a social media enthusiast who loves all things digital. He is the inbound marketing manager at StoreYa where he spends his days searching for the newest social marketing scoop. If you’d like to chat with him, feel free to connect with him on any social platform.

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Slide 1 : This slide introduces Small Business Company Profile. State Your Company Name and begin. Slide 2 : This slide presents Table of Content for the presentation. Slide 3 : This slide represents the executive summary which includes company overview. Slide 4 : This slide focuses on detailed company introduction which includes founded year, industry, headquarters and specialities. Slide 5 : This slide represents the mission and vision statement of company. Slide 6 : This slide shows the our company’s global presence across different regions. Slide 7 : This slide covers the range of products offered by our company such as network operating systems, data security applications, etc. Slide 8 : This slide represents the services we deliver to various businesses such as security, networking and development services. Slide 9 : This slide covers the key clients associated with our company which includes covered industries. Slide 10 : This slide shows the key people involved in management team. Slide 11 : This slide represents the timeline that shows company history with milestones achieved. Slide 12 : This slide focuses on leading partners associated with our company. Slide 13 : This slides focuses on client testimonials post using our products and services. Slide 14 : This slide focuses on company’s business model which covers key partners, activities, value proposition, etc. Slide 15 : This slide focuses on revenues earned by company in past five years which reported strong financial position. Slide 16 : This slide represents the net profits and margin analysis of company for five years. Slide 17 : This slide focuses on comparison of financial ratios of company for four consecutive years. Slide 18 : This slide represents the revenue generation by geography which shows data from last four years. Slide 19 : This slide shows the research and development expenses incurred by our company. Slide 20 : This slide represents the comparison with competitors based on market share. Slide 21 : This slide showcases Financial comparison with competitors. Slide 22 : This slide presents the major competitors by services such as software development services, consulting services and security services. Slide 23 : This slide displays Strategic approach to improve client base. Slide 24 : This slide shows the marketing strategy and mix of our IT company. Slide 25 : This slide presents SWOT analysis to evaluate competitive position. Slide 26 : This slide represents the corporate social responsibility activities undertaken by company. Slide 27 : This slide shows the case study which includes challenge faced by client in establishing cloud platform. Slide 28 : This slide displays Icons for small business company profile. Slide 29 : This slide is titled as Additional Slides for moving forward. Slide 30 : This is About Us slide to show company specifications etc. Slide 31 : This is Our Mission slide with related imagery and text. Slide 32 : This is Our Team slide with names and designation. Slide 33 : This is Our Target slide. State your targets here. Slide 34 : This is a Timeline slide. Show data related to time intervals here. Slide 35 : This slide presents Bar chart with two products comparison. Slide 36 : This slide describes Line chart with two products comparison. Slide 37 : This slide shows Post It Notes. Post your important notes here. Slide 38 : This is a Financial slide. Show your finance related stuff here. Slide 39 : This is a Thank You slide with address, contact numbers and email address.

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20 Great Examples of PowerPoint Presentation Design [+ Templates]

Published: January 17, 2024

When it comes to PowerPoint presentation design, there's no shortage of avenues you can take.

While all that choice — colors, formats, visuals, fonts — can feel liberating, it‘s important that you’re careful in your selection as not all design combinations add up to success.

In this blog post, I’m sharing some of my favorite PowerPoint tips and templates to help you nail your next presentation.

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In my opinion, a great PowerPoint presentation gets the point across succinctly while using a design that doesn't detract from it.

Here are some of the elements I like to keep in mind when I’m building my own.

1. Minimal Animations and Transitions

Believe it or not, animations and transitions can take away from your PowerPoint presentation. Why? Well, they distract from the content you worked so hard on.

A good PowerPoint presentation keeps the focus on your argument by keeping animations and transitions to a minimum. I suggest using them tastefully and sparingly to emphasize a point or bring attention to a certain part of an image.

2. Cohesive Color Palette

I like to refresh my memory on color theory when creating a new PowerPoint presentation.

A cohesive color palette uses complementary and analogous colors to draw the audience’s attention and help emphasize certain aspects at the right time.

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It‘s impossible for me to tell you the specific design ideas you should go after in your next PowerPoint, because, well, I don’t know what the goal of your presentation is.

Luckily, new versions of PowerPoint actually suggest ideas for you based on the content you're presenting. This can help you keep up with the latest trends in presentation design .

PowerPoint is filled with interesting boilerplate designs you can start with. To find these suggestions, open PowerPoint and click the “Design” tab in your top navigation bar. Then, on the far right side, you'll see the following choices:

8. “One Can Be Diverse: An Essay on Diversity,” With Company

This presentation employs both powerful images and modern typography to illustrate the point.

What I like: While many of the slides contain long quotes, they are broken up in a way that makes them easily digestible. Not to mention all of the text is crisp, clean, and concise.

9. " 10 Things Your Audience Hates About Your Presentation ," Stinson

This simplistic presentation example employs several different colors and font weights, but instead of coming off as disconnected, the varied colors work with one another to create contrast and call out specific concepts.

What I like: The big, bold numbers help set the reader's expectations, as they clearly signify how far along the viewer is in the list of tips.

10. “Pixar's 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling,” Gavin McMahon

This presentation by Gavin McMahon features color in all the right places. While each of the background images boasts a bright, spotlight-like design, all the characters are intentionally blacked out.

What I like: This helps keep the focus on the tips, while still incorporating visuals. Not to mention, it's still easy for me to identify each character without the details. (I found you on slide eight, Nemo.)

11. “Facebook Engagement and Activity Report,” We Are Social

Here's another great example of data visualization in the wild.

What I like: Rather than displaying numbers and statistics straight up, this presentation calls upon interesting, colorful graphs, and charts to present the information in a way that just makes sense.

12. “The GaryVee Content Model,” Gary Vaynerchuk

This wouldn‘t be a true Gary Vaynerchuk presentation if it wasn’t a little loud, am I right?

What I like: Aside from the fact that I love the eye-catching, bright yellow background, Vaynerchuk does a great job of incorporating screenshots on each slide to create a visual tutorial that coincides with the tips. He also does a great job including a visual table of contents that shows your progress as you go .

13. “20 Tweetable Quotes to Inspire Marketing & Design Creative Genius,” IMPACT Branding & Design

We‘ve all seen our fair share of quote-chronicling presentations but that isn’t to say they were all done well. Often the background images are poor quality, the text is too small, or there isn't enough contrast.

Well, this professional presentation from IMPACT Branding & Design suffers from none of said challenges.

What I like: The colorful filters over each background image create just enough contrast for the quotes to stand out.

14. “The Great State of Design,” Stacy Kvernmo

This presentation offers up a lot of information in a way that doesn't feel overwhelming.

What I like: The contrasting colors create visual interest and “pop,” and the comic images (slides 6 through 12) are used to make the information seem less buttoned-up and overwhelming.

15. “Clickbait: A Guide To Writing Un-Ignorable Headlines,” Ethos3

Not going to lie, it was the title that convinced me to click through to this presentation but the awesome design kept me there once I arrived.

What I like: This simple design adheres to a consistent color pattern and leverages bullet points and varied fonts to break up the text nicely.

16. “Digital Transformation in 50 Soundbites,” Julie Dodd

This design highlights a great alternative to the “text-over-image” display we've grown used to seeing.

What I like: By leveraging a split-screen approach to each presentation slide, Julie Dodd was able to serve up a clean, legible quote without sacrificing the power of a strong visual.

17. “Fix Your Really Bad PowerPoint,” Slide Comet

When you‘re creating a PowerPoint about how everyone’s PowerPoints stink, yours had better be terrific. The one above, based on the ebook by Seth Godin, keeps it simple without boring its audience.

What I like: Its clever combinations of fonts, together with consistent color across each slide, ensure you're neither overwhelmed nor unengaged.

18. “How Google Works,” Eric Schmidt

Simple, clever doodles tell the story of Google in a fun and creative way. This presentation reads almost like a storybook, making it easy to move from one slide to the next.

What I like: This uncluttered approach provides viewers with an easy-to-understand explanation of a complicated topic.

19. “What Really Differentiates the Best Content Marketers From The Rest,” Ross Simmonds

Let‘s be honest: These graphics are hard not to love. I especially appreciate the author’s cartoonified self-portrait that closes out the presentation. Well played, Ross Simmonds.

What I like: Rather than employing the same old stock photos, this unique design serves as a refreshing way to present information that's both valuable and fun.

20. “Be A Great Product Leader,” Adam Nash

This presentation by Adam Nash immediately draws attention by putting the company's logo first — a great move if your company is well known.

What I like: He uses popular images, such as ones of Megatron and Pinocchio, to drive his points home. In the same way, you can take advantage of popular images and media to keep your audience engaged.

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10 must-have slides in a business presentation

Nearly every professional, regardless of their role and field, will create and deliver a business presentation at some point in their career. Creating a slide deck takes a lot of preparation, including planning the content, structuring the slides, designing with appealing visuals and rehearsing the pitch.

  The 10-20-30 rule is a commonly used and much-praised structure for creating a business presentation. Following the 10-20-30 rule, the presenter should not present more than 10 slides, should not exceed 20 minutes, and should not use font sizes less than 30 point. Created by Guy Kawasaki , this method is for presenters to create and deliver impactful presentation.

  For a business deck, presenting your content in 10 slides can be a challenging task, as your messaging needs to be concise yet persuasive. Here are 10 slides that you should include in your business presentation to make your slide deck a success.

1. Title slide

This is the introduction slide that gives your audience an overview of what your presentation is about. Include important details like your topic, company name, logo, date of presentation, presenter name, and designation.

What makes a good title slide?

If you’re promoting a product or a service to your audience, then use a picture of it in the title slide instead of stock images. Provide crucial details that help your audience understand what they can expect from the session. Use a clean, simple font style in an appropriate size with a contrasting background to make the title easy to read.

2. Problem statement 

The objective of a business presentation should be to offer a solution to a business problem. Use this slide to define the problem for which you’re proposing a solution. Make your points clear, concise, and persuasive by highlighting the impact it has on the business.

What makes a good problem statement slide?

State the business problem you’ve set out to solve. Involve your audience by asking them if they have a solution to the above problem and then explain how your idea can impact the business. Make your content precise and easy to read without overwhelming your audience with too much information.

Define the goals you’re aiming to achieve through this presentation and list them as stages in your plan. Demonstrate your goals as points with a realistic timeline for each milestone.

What makes a good goals slide?

  Goals help set the direction for your business plan. Let’s say you’re launching a new product in the market and need to list the various milestones you’re aiming to accomplish to get the product to your audience. Instead of showcasing them as plain bullet points, break them down into milestones with timelines. Explain them in a few words and emphasize key points with animation effects and icons to make it visually appealing.

  4. Solution or Strategy

Now that you have mentioned the problem and set goals for your business, use this slide to talk about how you’re planning to achieve them. Write an overview of your strategy and plan of action and highlight the key points.

What makes a good solution slide?

Introduce your strategy with an impressive title and emphasize important content using text effects. Make your content compelling by highlighting the benefits of your strategy and presenting your solution as a narrative with eye-catching visuals and icons.

  5. Analysis

Your market, SWOT, and competitor analysis form an essential component in laying out your business plan in detail. Use supporting data in your business presentation to walk your audience through the analysis.

What makes a good analysis slide?

If your slide deck is for a product launch, then validate your strategy by including your analysis of the market, competitors, and your target customers to understand your position in the business. Instead of plain text, use charts and tables to explain your insights for these numbers. Bring your data to life with animation and text effects.

6. Financial plan and revenue    

Your business presentation should include your financial plan, revenue projections, and other relevant metrics necessary to measure the success of your business strategy.

What makes a good finance slide?

Present the budget required for different business stages like research, development, execution, marketing, etc. Use charts to break down your finances in planned stages. Add visuals and bring your charts to life with animation and effects.

Every business deck needs supporting data to validate your analysis and plan. Use charts and tables to help your audience understand your business position better.

  What makes a good data slide?

For business presentations like project management, add data to compare and analyze your plan and  identify  areas of improvement. Determine the best chart style to showcase your numbers and highlight the compelling data points, then add a line or two of your own conclusions from these numbers and explain them in detail during the presentation.

8. Timeline  

Setting up a timeline for your business is crucial as it establishes the direction, priorities, and roadmap for achieving your business goals. You can also use a timeline to showcase your company’s journey by featuring various milestones, starting with its inception and highlighting some of your prominent projects to date.

What makes a good timeline slide?

Make your timeline slide less text-heavy and more visual with a timeline chart to take your audience through the various milestones. Add visuals, icons, and path animations to make your timeline visually engaging.

Introducing your team members forms an integral part of your business presentation as its sends a strong message of your company’s expertise. For a small business, you can introduce all your employees, while bigger companies should introduce members crucial for the operation of your company.

What makes a good team slide?

For presentations like a project report or sales pitch, it’s necessary to include your team slide as the audience needs to know the members involved in the project. Include headshots of your team members with their title/designation, along with a short description of their role in the business.

10. Q&A or End Slide

This will be the closing slide of your business presentation and must leave a lasting impact on your audience. If you want to answer audience questions, schedule your Q&A session at the end of your presentation.

What makes a good end slide?

A good end slide recaps your overall presentation and contains your company’s important details. Close your presentation with a rhetorical question to make a thought-provoking impact on your audience.

  For nearly every type of business presentation or pitch, these ten slides will help you create a strong framework for your slide deck. However, don’t forget that different sorts of business presentations have their styles and needs based on the objective, industry, and the target audience. To learn more about some best practices for creating a presentation template for every industry,   take a look at our previous blog post .

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Definition of a Small Business

Understanding small businesses, what are naics codes, importance of small businesses, small business resources, types of small business structures, the bottom line.

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What Is a Small Business? Definition, Characteristics, and Challenges

Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as an executive, leading multi-billion dollar mortgage, credit card, and savings portfolios with operations worldwide and a unique focus on the consumer. Her mortgage expertise was honed post-2008 crisis as she implemented the significant changes resulting from Dodd-Frank required regulations.

A small business is a company of relatively limited size, as measured by its revenue, number of employees, or both. Often described as the backbone of the U.S. economy , small businesses range from sole proprietorships to partnerships and corporations with multiple owners and sometimes hundreds of workers.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) , there are more than 33 million small businesses in the country today, employing close to 62 million Americans.

Key Takeaways

• Small businesses are generally defined in terms of their revenue or number of employees.
• The criteria for what’s considered small can vary from one industry to another.
• The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) sets the revenue and employee limits for specific types of business.
• Qualifying as a small business can make a company eligible for government contracts and other financial benefits.
• Small businesses can structure themselves in a variety of ways for tax and legal purposes, including insulating their owners from financial liability.

Small businesses are typically defined by metrics such as their number of employees and their annual revenues.

For simplicity’s sake, the SBA’s Office of Advocacy generally defines one as “an independent business having fewer than 500 employees.” But, as explained in the next section of this article, under the SBA’s official standards, a small business can have as many as 1,500 employees, depending on the industry, and its annual revenue can range as high as $40 million.

Most small businesses, however, are truly small. In 2023, according to SBA data, close to 82% of small businesses in the United States were one-person operations, with no employees aside from the owner.

The federal government established the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) in 1997. Its purpose, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, was to create a standard that federal statistical agencies could use in “classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.”

The NAICS assigns six-digit codes to businesses. The first two digits refer to the sector of the economy in which they operate, the next two to their particular subsector and industry . The remaining digits further narrow the type of business it is, to the point that NAICS codes can be highly specific. For example, an orange grove is a 111310, while an apple orchard is a 111331, and an advertising agency is a 541810, while a public relations agency is a 541820.

The NAICS codes do not differentiate between small and large businesses. For example, both a single-person ad agency and one with thousands of employees and offices all over the world would have the same six-digit number.

However, the Small Business Administration uses the codes and applies its own “size standards,” either in terms of annual receipts or number of employees, to determine what constitutes a small business within a particular field. The SBA defines annual receipts as the company’s total income or gross income plus cost of goods sold (COGS) .

For example, an orange grove qualifies as a small business if it takes in no more than $4 million annually, while an apple orchard can take in up to $4.5 million. An ad agency is small if its revenue is under $25.5 million, while a PR agency can only have revenue of up to $19 million and remain small by definition.

When the SBA divides businesses into small and large by the number of employees, the maximums can vary widely across industries. For example, a fruit and vegetable wholesaler can have no more than 100 employees and be considered small, while an aircraft manufacturer can have as many as 1,500. Generally speaking, 1,500 is about the maximum for any enterprise under current rules.

The SBA size standards are especially important for businesses competing for government programs or contracts, as explained below. The SBA website has a Size Standards Tool that businesses can use to see if they qualify as small under its criteria.

Most small businesses will have a primary NAICS code, but they may also have additional codes if they offer multiple products and services.

Small businesses are vital to the U.S. economy. In fact, by its definition, the SBA’s Office of Advocacy says small businesses constitute 99.9% of U.S. businesses overall. Together, they account for 43.5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and 39.4% of private-sector payrolls.

Small businesses also accounted for 62.7% of net new job creation from 1995 to 2023, the SBA says.

Small businesses that qualify are eligible for funding and other forms of assistance through the federal government, state and local governments, and private and nonprofit sources. Among the major ones:

The SBA doesn’t offer loans itself but provides guarantees to approved lenders, making it easier for small businesses to borrow money. SBA loans range from $500 to $5.5 million and can be used for working capital or to finance the purchase of fixed assets, such as machinery. The SBA also has a loan program for exporters.

Small-business grants , which normally do not have to be paid back, are harder to obtain than loans. The SBA doesn’t provide grants for starting or expanding small businesses, but the federal government has several grant programs for specific types of businesses. Two of them are the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.

The U.S. Treasury Department, through its State Small Business Credit Initiative, also provides money to states, U.S. territories, and tribal governments, which they can then use to support small businesses in their area.

In addition, some state and local governments and a number of private corporations have their own grant-making initiatives aimed at encouraging small business.

Government Contracting

As the SBA points out, “The U.S. government is the largest customer in the world. It buys all types of products and services—in both large and small quantities—and it’s required by law to consider buying from small businesses.”

To facilitate that, the SBA offers programs to help small businesses compete for federal contracts, some targeting specific types of business owners, such as women, Native Americans, or military veterans. It also administers Small Business Development Centers in every U.S. state and territory, in conjunction with the private sector, educational institutions, and state and local governments. Their goal is to provide resources to current and would-be small business owners.

Small businesses can choose to structure themselves in a variety of ways for tax and legal purposes . Here are the common types, listed in relative order of complexity.

Sole Proprietorship

The simplest and most common type of small business, sole proprietorships can have only one owner. The owner doesn’t have to file a separate tax return but reports their business income (or losses) on a Schedule C form attached to their regular 1040 tax return.

Partnership

If two or more people want to own a business together, they can form a partnership. Partnerships come in two basic types: limited partnerships (LPs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) .

In a limited partnership, one person serves as the general partner and takes on most of the liability, or risk, for the company, while the other partner or partners have more limited exposure. In a limited liability partnership, all partners have limited liability. In both cases, the income from the business passes through to the owners, who report it on their individual tax returns.

Limited Liability Company

A limited liability company (LLC) can have one or more owners. As with the two types of partnerships, it is set up to reduce the owner’s or owners’ personal liability in the event of a lawsuit or other financial difficulty. LLC income can be reported on either an individual tax return or a business tax return.

Corporation

Corporations can also shield their owners from financial liability resulting from the actions of the business. There are two basic types: S corps and C corps .

S corps can have from one to 100 owners, who report their share of the company’s profits or losses on their individual tax returns. C corps, which are probably what most people think of as a corporation, can have a single owner or many thousands of them, in the form of shareholders. C corps file corporate tax returns, and any dividends they pay out are also taxable on the recipients’ individual tax returns, a situation sometimes referred to as double taxation .

Benefits of a Small Business

Small businesses can benefit their owners in a range of ways. The business is likely to be less bureaucratic than a large company, allowing its owner or owners a greater degree of autonomy. If the business is profitable, its owners also stand to benefit more directly than they would as employees of a larger enterprise.

Owning a business can also entitle a person to a long list of tax deductions for which might not otherwise be eligible. For example, if they work from home and maintain an office there, they may be able to write off a portion of their housing costs.

Challenges Facing Small Businesses

Running a small business isn’t for everyone. Just as owners stand to profit more if the business succeeds, they may suffer more financially if it fails. Many times, they will have put their life savings on the line.

Small businesses can face other challenges based on their size. They may find it harder to raise capital for expansion or other purposes. They may also have more trouble hiring employees in a tight labor market if they’re unable to offer wage and benefit packages that are competitive with their larger counterparts.

However, many small businesses manage to overcome the obstacles. Looking at the pre-COVID years of 1994 to 2000, the SBA reports that an average of 67.7% of new businesses survived at least two years. In other words, about a third of new businesses failed, but two-thirds made it that far. The five-year survival rate for that period was 48.9%.

How Many Employees Does a Small Business Have?

Depending on its industry, a small business can have as few as one employee to as many as 1,500 or so and still meet the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) size criteria. According to the most recent SBA figures, among small firms with paid employees (as opposed to sole proprietorships where the owner is the lone employee), the average number was 11.7.

What Are the Most Common Types of Small Businesses?

The most common type of small business by far is a sole proprietorship, with a single owner. Among the least common would be a C corporation, which is far more costly to set up and administer.

What Criteria Define a Small Business?

The SBA defines small businesses based on their revenues and numbers of employees, in accordance with their particular industry. They must also meet these general criteria, reprinted here verbatim:

• Be a for-profit business of any legal structure
• Be independently owned and operated
• Not be nationally dominant in its field
• Be physically located and operate in the U.S. or its territories

Why Are Small Businesses Important to the Economy?

Small businesses are of critical importance to the economy in large measure because of the jobs they provide. According to the latest SBA figures, small businesses employ nearly half of all private-sector workers (46.4%), or close to 62 million people. In addition, small businesses are often seen as more nimble than their larger counterparts, making them a major source of new innovations.

Small businesses play a big role in the U.S. economy. While they can be risky for their owners, they also hold the potential for significant financial rewards. In addition, studies have shown that small business owners are often happier in their jobs than people who work for others. A 2023 Pew Research Center study, for example, reported that “Most self-employed workers (62%) say they are extremely or very satisfied with their job, compared with 51% of those who are not self-employed.”

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How one millennial quit a corporate job, became self-employed, and set himself up financially to start a small business

• In 2017, Paul Millerd left his high-paying consulting job to work for himself.
• He set himself up financially by saving a 12-month cash runway and negotiating a gradual transition.
• This article is part of " Unlocking Small Business Success ," a series providing micro businesses with a road map to growth.

In 2017, Paul Millerd walked away from a six-figure consulting salary.

The decision also meant paying back his full $24,000 sign-on bonus to his previous employer, he said.

"It wasn't this cliché of, 'I'm going to boldly quit my job and run into the sunset and bet on myself,'" the 39-year-old solopreneur and author of " The Pathless Path " told Business Insider. "It was more of an exasperated only-option-left mindset. I wasn't loving my job. I was working with a boss that I wasn't getting along with."

Since graduating from college, Millerd had worked for five companies, convinced every move was "the final stop" but finding himself right where he found himself in 2017: burned out and looking for a different consulting gig.

It was time to try something new, but he wasn't sure what. He shared the steps he took that set him up to leave corporate America and exchange a comfortable paycheck for the unknown.

1. He had a 12-month cash runway

Millerd had about $50,000 in savings after paying back his bonus. It was enough to sustain him for roughly a year, according to back-of-the-envelope math.

He wouldn't necessarily have felt comfortable quitting without the cash cushion. "As soon as I calculated I could live a minimal life on 50 grand a year, I was out of there," he said, adding that he didn't always have savings. Business school "wiped out" what little he'd saved early on in his career and left him with about $70,000 in student-loan debt.

"As soon as that savings account built up, I became a little bolder in terms of taking risks," he said. "It was like, this is some potential freedom to try different things."

2. He negotiated a gradual transition with his company

Millerd didn't give two weeks' notice or leave immediately.

"I negotiated to stay on and train some people," he said. "I really had no plan, so I needed at least a couple of months."

If anything, he stayed "a month or a month and a half too long," he added, but it gave him time to prepare for his next chapter and think about what freelancing would look like.

"I set up my LLC," he said. "I started networking . I reached out to some small consulting firms to see if they needed contractors. I reached out to friends in business school. I built a website. I did some writing."

The networking paid off: It was at a business-school reunion that he landed his first freelance gig after reconnecting with one of his former professors who was looking for consulting work.

3. He lowered his expenses and funded a cheaper life through freelance projects

After leaving his firm in May 2017, the "first phase" of working for himself, as Millerd described it, was: "Get paid; lower costs."

He became a more conscious spender, he said: "A lot of people start with, 'Here's what I make; here's what I budget and spend.' I flipped this equation in my head. For me, it was, 'Everything I spend, I need to earn 30% more than that because of taxes.' So if I'm going to go out for ramen and it costs $20 in New York, that's going to cost me $26. I need to earn the $26."

It helped that he temporarily moved to Boston for his first freelance gig in late 2017. He sublet his New York City apartment, moved in with roommates in Boston, and "really simplified my life," he said, adding that he cut his cost of living from about $6,500 a month to $3,500 a month.

An early money mindset he adopted was "buying time" by living on as little as possible, Millerd, who moved to Taiwan in 2019 and decreased his expenses even more, said. The less he spent, the longer his runway would last.

"If you're spending $1,000 a month, you can buy six months for $6,000," he said. "That was the mode I was in from years two to three."

Lowering costs takes some of the earning pressure off, but it helps to have income coming in even if you have a cash runway.

"I think the smoothest transitions are what I did: Go from full-time work to freelance work, which is essentially doing full-time work, but you're just doing it in a more flexible contract way," said Millerd, who encourages aspiring entrepreneurs to start asking their employers about flexible, part-time work. "Go to your company and say, 'I don't want to quit. Would you be open to a pitch of me turning this into a four-day-a-week job? Could I do three days a week? Here's what I want to do. Here's how much I charge for this.'"

If your manager doesn't want to lose you, they may be more open than you think to part-time work, he said.

4. He had a 'break the glass' plan

In a worst-case scenario, if he drained his savings and couldn't land any freelance gigs, Millerd always knew he could find a way to make money.

Since leaving corporate America in 2017, his revenue streams have included freelance consulting, coaching , online course sales, book sales, and affiliate marketing.

If he never figured out how to make money working for himself , "there was always the sense that I had the capability of breaking glass in case of emergency," he said, adding: "I'm creative enough to figure out how to make money. I can go work at a restaurant. I'll take any job if I need to. Especially now with a kid, I don't have an ego when it comes to taking care of my family."

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It’s a tale as old as time yet too often ignored by politicians: elected officials pass sweeping new policies and small businesses and consumers pay the price. Consider the new law in California mandating a $20-hourly minimum wage at quick-service restaurants across the state.  

In the days leading up to the April 1 implementation date, the headlines were predictably awash with grim economic news. "Minimum wage increase in California could lead to layoffs" blared KNTV in San Francisco. 

As business owners and their trade groups warned when the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery (FAST) Act was first proposed in 2022, the chickens are finally coming home to roost in the form of higher prices, job cuts and shuttered businesses. But California politicians, who are beholden to the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) demands for fear of political retribution, chose not to listen. 

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The original version of the FAST Act would have been even more damaging. Negotiations yielded a compromise lowering the minimum wage from $22 to $20 and extended the timeline of its implementation from January 1, 2023, to April 1, 2024. It also neutered the powers of a "Fast Food Council" to advisory-status rather than creating a new rule-making body.  

Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation raising California fast food workers minimum wage to $20 an hour at SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 28, 2023. Newsom gave Anneisha Williams, who works at Jack in the Box and is a mothe (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Most importantly, the California compromise eliminated joint employer liability, which would have destroyed the franchise model by tying brands and their franchise owners together as one entity – long a prize for unions in their ongoing boondoggle to attempt to organize employees at franchised locations as one entity.  Joint employer status erodes independence and autonomy from individual franchise owners, consolidating power with big business and big labor unions. 

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By their nature, compromises are never perfect, but in a state where one party controls all the levers of power, it was progress nonetheless.  

That’s the good news. On the other side of the coin, the Biden Administration’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is pursuing a similar joint employer policy at the national level. Thankfully, the House of Representatives passed a repeal, and now the Senate must get the ball over the finish line. In the upper chamber, the effort enjoys bipartisan support, including from West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin and several other moderate Democrats. 

Exporting policies too extreme for the Golden State is not a wise course of action for the rest of the country.  

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Small business owners in California face one of most-unfriendly climates. The state has the highest unemployment rate in the country and its job growth is dead last. Businesses are fleeing in droves at the nation’s fastest rate. Before the FAST Act took effect, restaurant jobs in the state were down. More entrepreneurs are opting to relocate elsewhere rather than comply with an endless torrent of mandates or being forced to close their doors. Meanwhile, some California politicians are even calling for $50-inimum wage.

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Even in California, voters are starting to fight back. Assemblyman Chris Holden – author of the FAST Act who hailed its passage as the "most progressive fast food wage law in the country" during a bill signing alongside Governor Gavin Newsom – is getting trounced in his bid for a seat of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. He has even distanced himself from the final bill – a bold claim that lays bare who is really calling the shots in California – the labor unions. 

The lessons of California are worth keeping in mind as the SEIU claims it wants to take these failed policies to other liberal locations. 

Politicians are fond of railing against "big corporations," but it’s the small business owners and consumers who end up paying the bill for a $24 burger.  

Matt Haller is president and CEO of the International Franchise Association.