John Rode

Thanks to everyone who voted in our LinkedIn poll, “Which presentation templates should SlideRocket develop“. You certainly surprised us with a few of your requests (e.g., lead prospecting template!). We’ll leave the poll open so you can continue to cast your votes, and we’ll watch it closely as input as we create more great templates. And now that you’ve voted, it’s time for us to deliver! (more…)

Nonprofits can be fantastic marketers. For the continued success of their causes, nonprofits must refill their coffers year after year. They don’t get to enjoy the recurring revenue, multi-year contracts and other plush budget amenities that a typical private sector company enjoys. These folks really need to be at the top of their guerrilla marketing game to earn donations! Which is why SlideRocket loves to help them!  (more…)

In your career, one of the biggest challenges you’ll face is getting noticed when marketing your product, pitching investors for funding, proposing ideas to your manager, looking for a job, etc. The uphill battle job hunter “Ryan” encountered while trying to get his résumé noticed by potential employers illustrates this point:

“I was tired of applying for jobs that I knew I was qualified for and knew I would be great at. No matter how much time I spent retooling my résumé or writing a great cover letter, I knew I was sitting in a stack with hundreds of other applicants.” (more…)

Sleep tight SlideRocket users. Your presentations are safe with us.

We’re excited to announce that all SlideRocket users can now set their presentations to “Private”. Formerly only SlideRocket Pro users could this, but now SlideRocket Lite (the free version) users can as well. This means any presentation you create from scratch or import from PowerPoint will be set to “Private” until you choose to make it “Public”. Nobody can view it, and Google won’t crawl it.

This update provides (more…)

Welcome to Slide Design Friday! In this weekly post we’ll tear apart awful presentations and mock the people who designed them. Nawww! This is really a friendly place where we’ll take a look at good SlideRocket presentations that come across the Twitter stream and provide simple, quick fix tips that may help the slide author better deliver their message, and just generally be more awesome for their audience.

Using Venn Diagrams in your slide design

This slide was created by the folks at Handling Specialty in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. (more…)

The role of sales has fundamentally changed because customers find much of the information they need to make purchase decisions on the web. To adapt, forward-thinking sales teams are employing a cadre of sales tools to engage with, and win the trust of, prospective customers.

In this webinar, Jacco van der Kooij and Dan Adams discuss this new selling paradigm and share their perspectives on key sales tools and techniques you should consider employing to help you sell more effectively.

The following is the Q&A transcript from the webinar:
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We are thrilled to announce that SlideRocket has launched integration with the newly released Google Drive. With this announcement Google and SlideRocket have introduced a new level of content viewing, editing and collaboration.

Google Drive and SlideRocket – a Presentation

A Big Day For SlideRocket, Google and The Cloud

SlideRocket users who choose Google Drive will enjoy (more…)

Congratulations to the five winners of the SlideRocket Non-profit Presentation Contest! Well Done! Please take a few moments to view and share the winning presentations below. And a big congratulations to all the presentation contest participants. It really was a close race!

The first place winner will receive a $10,000 donation from SlideRocket, and each of the other four winners will receive a $5,000 donation. To process your donation, we will contact you directly via the email you used to register for SlideRocket. If you are one of the winners and have any questions or concerns please email contest@sliderocket.com.

The judges made their selections of the best presentations based on unique views, best storyline, composition and compelling cause. So, without further ado, here are the winning presentations! (more…)

With just a few steps you can get your SlideRocket presentations to appear in Google and Bing organic search results. These 7 SEO tips and tricks are similar to the ones you would apply to your website, so I expect you’ll find these to be relatively straight-forward.

#1 Unlock Your SEO Potential

SlideRocket recently announced the”Presentation Outline” feature which enables text from your presentation to appear just below your slides to help turn presentations into SEO Content. This enables Google and Bing to “read” your presentation and decide which search keywords to associate with your presentation. (more…)

March 2012

Orbit is your source for presentation tips and resources. From amazing presentations, to insightful webinars, to inspiring presentation tips, Orbit is your resource for the latest content from SlideRocket.

Webinar: The Future of Sales

Customers learn far more about what they want to purchase by searching the web. This webinar will help you understand which sales tools can help you better reach, engage with, and win your prospects’ business.  April 25 @ 11 AM (Pacific)

Register Now. (more…)