TikTok slideshow ideas you can make this week

A slideshow needs no camera, no editing and no performance. Salim, who grew an app on them, puts it plainly: they're cheap to make and can draw as many views as a video ^[1]. For a professional, the bigger reason is the save: a list of the questions you ask, or the checks you run, is something a future client keeps and comes back to.

They also let you reuse what works. Once a format lands, you keep the look and the cover and change the points inside, so each post takes less work than the one before.

Before you pick an idea, pick a format someone in your field has already proven. Search TikTok for your topic, open the accounts that come up, and look for one that posts the same kind of slideshow again and again with steady results across many posts ^[1]. An account that gets big views and sells nothing is the best one to learn from: the format works without a product doing the pulling ^[1].

Write down what its slideshows share: the cover line, the number of slides, the text style, where it asks for something. Then make your version with your own points and your own pictures.

You don't need a trend. You need one thing from this week that a client would pay to know. Three questions find it:

1. What did a client ask that others ask too?
2. What did someone get wrong that you had to fix?
3. What did you believe about your work five years ago that you'd now argue against?

Write the answer as a list of five points. That's your slideshow: a cover with the promise and one point per slide. Salim's advice for the format is the same as for the idea: start from what already works, because originality is a trap at the start ^[1].

The same three questions give you TikTok video ideas too. Take the strongest of the five points and say it to camera in under a minute: the question, your answer, one example. Then look at what already did well in your field this month, and remake its format with your own points. For a hundred video formats to borrow, see TikTok video ideas, and for finding the posts that beat their account's usual, see content ideas.

The most common shape: a cover, then one numbered point per slide. It's easy to save because the reader can come back for the list.

• Things I check before a client signs anything.
• Questions I ask in every first call.
• Mistakes I see in the first month of working with someone.
• Small habits my best clients have.
• Things I'd stop doing if I were starting out in your job.
• Tools I use every week, and what each one is for.

Cover: things i [check / ask / tell / stopped] [before / in / after] [a moment in your work] ([why you know: e.g. after years of client calls])
Slides 2 to 6: [number]. [the point in under 8 words]
[two short lines: why it matters, and what to do]
Slide 6, last line: save this for your next [moment].

Each slide puts a common belief over what's true. It works for a professional because it shows judgment, which is what a client is buying.

• Money beliefs I had before I became a planner.
• What I thought clients wanted, and what they actually wanted.
• Red flags in a [job, contract, house, business plan] that are actually fine.
• Advice I used to give that I'd never give now.
• Things I thought made me look professional that put clients off.

Cover: [things / signs] i thought were [bad / good] that turned out to be the opposite ([who you are])
Slides 2 to 6: [number]. [the belief, in quotes]
i thought: [what you used to think]
i learnt: [what's true, in two short lines]

A scenario slide names a moment, then says what most people do and what to do instead. It reads like advice from someone who has seen the moment many times.

• A client goes quiet after a proposal.
• A buyer asks for a discount on the spot.
• A recruiter calls about a job you didn't apply for.
• A tenant says the rent will be late.
• A colleague takes credit for your work in a meeting, and you have to answer in the room.

Cover: how to handle [moment your client dreads] without [the thing they fear]
Each slide:
example: [the moment, in one line]
what most people do: [the usual reaction]
what to do instead: [your advice, in two short lines]
[one-line takeaway]

Script slides give the exact words: if they say this, don't say that, say this. They get saved because the reader can use the line today.

• What to say when a client asks why you cost more.
• How to reply to 'I'll think about it'.
• What to text a lead who went quiet.
• What to say in the first minute of an interview.
• How to ask for a referral without it feeling awkward.

Cover: what to say when [moment], from someone who hears it every week
Each slide:
if they say: "[their line]"
don't say: "[the usual reply]"
say: "[your reply]"
[one line on why it works]

A checklist or a problem-and-fix slide is the most practical format: the reader can act on it the same day. Keep one problem per slide, with the fix under it.

• Before you sign a lease: what to check.
• Problems I fix in most first drafts, and the fix for each.
• A checklist for your first week in a new job.
• Common bookkeeping mistakes, and what to do instead.
• What to bring to a first meeting with me.

Cover: [mistakes / problems] i fix in [most / every] [thing you see], and the fix
Each slide:
problem: [what you see, in one line]
why: [the cause, in one line]
fix: [what to do, in one or two lines]

Some formats lean on the pictures: a four-photo collage with one line across it, a clean card with one photo and a short list, or one diagram per slide in the same layout. They need a little more setup, then the template does the work.

• Four photos of a week of your work, one line per photo.
• A card per tool, room or document: one photo, its name, what it's for.
• One simple diagram per slide: a process, a timeline, a before and after.
• Four things buyers miss on a viewing, one photo each.

Keep the same layout, colours and fonts on every slide and every post. A look that stays the same reads as a brand.

For more formats, including video ones, see TikTok video ideas. For a month of ideas from posts that already did well in your field, see content ideas.

• Slides that ask for likes as the payoff ('like this and...'). TikTok says content that tries to get people to inflate likes or follows isn't eligible for the For You feed ^[2].
• Claims you can't back. Several accounts that win with slideshows make health claims with no evidence behind them. A professional's name is worth more than a post.
• Another account's slides with your logo on them. Take the format, then write your own points.
• A new format every day. Keep one for a month so you can tell whether it's the format or the idea.

The Postmosis carousel maker turns a topic, pasted text or a post into 2 to 10 slides in your brand colour with your headshot, ready to download and upload to TikTok as a photo post.

Plan the month on the Postmosis content calendar: give each week one format and each day one idea, and your phone reminds you when a post is due.

Once you have the idea and the format, the slideshow itself takes minutes. TikTok takes up to 35 photos in one post ^[3], but six is plenty: a cover and five slides.

1. Make the six pictures first, with the words already on them, or plain photos you'll add text to in the app.
2. In TikTok, tap +, then Photo, then Upload, and pick the pictures in the order you want them read ^[3].
3. Tap Next and swipe through to add text, a sound or stickers, or to crop a picture ^[3].
4. Tap Next again, edit the cover so it shows your promise, and write a short caption ^[3].
5. Post it, or save it as a draft to post when your viewers are on the app ^[3].

The steps in the app, the cover and where your offer goes are in how to make a TikTok slideshow.