Episode 179: Thinking of doing your pitch deck you

Welcome to the end to end ICO series where you learn how to launch your own ICO straight from the experts. We will answer a couple of last questions about pitch decks, best tools for do it yourself pitch deck. Do you want to do a pitch deck yourself? You can, a PowerPoint, the way, let's back up a bit. Before we discuss tools, let's discuss, let's walk through

the process of putting a pitch deck together. What's the process? You have an idea, you sit down, write down your thoughts on paper, maybe a rough, rough paper, we've already discussed this. So we'll go into a little more detail. We'll maybe, maybe open Microsoft Word or any word processes that you have. Put a rough outline. What's your idea? Describe that. What problem is it solving? How

unique is your solution? Who is your competition? So go through those. Those aspects in a structured manner, you can, you can Google for a pitch deck template called McKinsey Business Plan Template. It's a pretty detailed template which walks you through a bunch of components. Or you can look at other great examples as well. So walk through them, write down your rough, rough thoughts and then organize

them into a story. Remember what we discussed before. We are humans, humans love stories. And it's told, a story is what gets you create an emotion. And emotion and when emotion and curiosity coupled with a great idea is what will make the money come home or somebody else buying to your idea. So you don't need a whole host of fancy tools. Although if you did, you

could do it. You look at some tools outside of PowerPoint. If you, if you're not somebody who's a Microsoft fan, you can look at Google slides. In fact, Google has some amazing templates. Free templates that you can leverage. If you are a Microsoft PowerPoint user, as soon as you fire a PowerPoint, you're going to get an option to search for templates. You can click a business

plan template and then it is going to have some pre populated topics which you can complete or you can some, you can use a few expensive tools. There's a tool called Prezi, PRZ is zi.com. If you want an animated version of a PowerPoint or there is can was well, C-A-N-V-A.com. So there, these are some of the popular tools that I know. But if you want something

different, fire up a search on Google or your favorite search engine, and that is going to throw a few resources at you. And like we discussed before, after you put this together, if you're happy with the result, you can package it yourself. But if you want to want that to look a little polish and visually superior, find a designer on Fiverr or 99 designs or any

of these websites or some of these popular freelancing websites, and you should be able to get a stunning pitch deck. And we'll come to our last question about pitch decks. Should you publish it on the website? Well, your ICO website is virtually like your pitch deck. Only it omits a few key points of information, such as financials, anything else that you're doing. You could still have

a high level financial snapshot on your website. But if you want somebody, if somebody's really interested, make sure you have a form that somebody fills out or completes and sends out and you can respond and send them out a pitch deck in return once you know what their interest is in your idea or in your ICO. So personally, I would recommend putting the entire pitch deck

on your website. But you could still send it out as a result of an inquiry or somebody establishing a pitch deck. Establishing curiosity in your idea or venture. That way you know who exactly is looking for it. And you have a much more better control of the conversation and anything else that goes along with it. So there's no hard and fast rule. If you if you

feel like you need to put it out there, feel free to do it. But I would still recommend putting it behind some sort of a sign up form or some sort of a firewall where you are sending it or sharing it with people on a. It could also be an automatic download after somebody completes a form and their contact information is with you and you don't

have to manually put it out and sign it out to them. So that way it will save you a lot of trouble if you see a huge sign up from a number of people as far as your pitch deck is concerned. So that's all we had about pitch decks. Hope you loud listening to this. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Feel free

to email me and I'll be more than happy to share my thoughts with you on that.