Wishpond examined successful Slideshares, identified 7 commonalities among them, and then used those findings to create a new Slideshare that was featured on Slideshare’s home page (70 million active users). As a result, their content was viewed by over 60,000 people in their target demographic.
You can find those 7 items below:
1. Alluring subheading
2. aesthetically pleasing introductory slide
3.The Backstory (2-3 introductory slides)
4.Points per slide, maximum 2
Five. Lots of pictures and colour
6.Stick to one subject at a time.
7. A comprehensive description of the slides with as many tags as possible
Added to Wishpond:
8. Mentioned @slidesharetoday and @slideshare in a tweet linking to their Slideshare
9. I advertised it in relevant LinkedIn forums