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Hi Everyone,

I recently launched my website, myprizo.com.  I design custom PowerPoint layouts/templates for school presentations or that important business pitch.  These are free to use and if you want to be more elegant, there are the premium ones for $2.99 (yes it`s not a typo).

A lot of my competitors charge $49-100 per template and a lot of those designs are not that good.  They package in a bunch of graphics, bar charts, and other useless junk you`ll never use and make you pay for it.  For a college student looking for a layout for a project or an entrepreneur to pay $49 is unrealistic.  Why spend hours making one when you can download it for free in 2mins?

Can you provide some feedback on the website and layout designs?

If any entrepreneur needs help with their PowerPoint, feel free to let me know.  I`d be happy to give back to the community that helps me

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Tommyjeans,
I like your templates... It`s really a step up from the ordinary ppt templates that come with Power point. I`m assuming all your work is custom made.
Now as for the Joomla template, did you design that yourself? or did you install a template?
I looked at the code and noticed that you still have the Joomla tags... you can delete those if you goto configuration and enter your own keywords.
Just advise. Other than that Im interested on some of your templates.
I need a custom made one for next month and don`t have the time...




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OK, my first thought were these were really nice templates but my second thought was maybe they are too nice ;) In all seriousness though I could see some of the backgrounds getting in the way of the content itself.

My recommendation would be take a sampling and add some content that a user could page through like they normally would in PPT.

Unless you make it more of a community style system where users submit designs and your revenue is generated primarily from ads I would personally take the ads off completely (even the dog ear). Otherwise great idea and love the execution.

thanks Erin =)

hi there,
Yes all my PPT designs are custom made with my own artwork.

I actually thought I had replaced all the Joomla tags with my own, I guess I missed one.  Are you referring to: meta name = "Generator" content ="Joomla! - Copyright (c) 2005-2007 open source matters. All right reserved..." ?

No, the design of the site itself is not a template, it was also custom made.

Sure, shoot me an email of what you need and i`d be happy to help you come up with something =)

Thx for the heads up on the codes

You`re right, some title slide are more graphic intensive then others.  I tried to keep my audience in mind when I made these.  Some people like it simple, others want more it complex.  The actual content slide itself is very simple, either contains a header or footer banner, faded out to make sure the audience is looking at content not design.  Title page is to capture the audience`s attention.  I`ve been meaning to upload the content page as well to show the user the full deck. 

I`ll take your suggestion into consideration. My original intentions were to upload a handful of designs to see what kind of interest I get before doing more. I have thousands of designs here to load but didn`t want to waste my time if no one liked them.

That was my phase II plan, to allow users to upload their own designs, once the site picks up traction and traffic.  Again goes back to original plan to see how much interest I receive to continue on.

I took off the peel ad

thx again!

Nice templates! Y`know what`d be cool, would be if I could click on one of the templates, then have a "next" and "previous" button so I could just browse through them without any further clicks back to the side. If there was a "download this one" option, you could *then* put the user back at the main site, with that particular template page, where they could do the downloading or whatever else.

Other than that, I had no problems with the site. :-)

hi craig,

thats a great feature i didnt really think about actually. i`ll throw that into my phase II plans

thx!

The first thing I wanted to know was how much it was to have a custom template created for my company. The minimal info you have about it is mid-way down the FAQ page.

I would think your most profitable angle for this site is to create custom templates for money. The free and cheap templates are simply a means to show off your capabilities. I would move an offer for a custom template front and center.

Also, just to echo what was said above, if you are selling something then you should not have third party ads on your site, period. You want the visitor`s money. You do not want them to navigate elsewhere and give someone else their money.

The site is looking good!




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