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…)

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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This is a guest blog post by Jacco VanderKooij, an entrepreneurial sales executive with a 10+ years proven sales track record. Jacco brings rigorous discipline and boundless energy to sales organizations. On Apr 25, Jacco will present the webinar The Future of Sales, Selling With Social Media. Join us!

Over the past 10 years I have delivered close to 1,000 sales presentations. In that time, my use of video during in-person sales meetings has had perhaps the biggest, most surprising impact on my ability to deliver an exceptional presentation.

At first, I was reluctant to try video during an in-person sales presentation. My fear was the video would distract my audience, (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…)

Below you will find the recording and Q&A for the recent SlideRocket webinar, “How Presentations Supercharge Viral Marketing Campaigns”. Feel free to add more questions in the comments section and I will be sure to respond.

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Tired of slogging along with the same old PowerPoint presentation, boring your audience to tears, emailing gigantic attachments, managing a version control nightmare, and agonizing over presentations that are outdated the minute you send them? Time to look at PowerPoint alternatives?

This is post #1 in a series of 3 intended to give you both a checklist of features to evaluate a new presentation builder against, and to perhaps stretch your mind a bit about what is possible. In post #2 we’ll discuss 7 really smart features of PowerPoint alternatives that you should look out for, and #3 will be truly surprising features you never even thought to ask about.

Here are 7 essential features to help get you on track in your evaluation:

#1  Links

Sharing presentations with links instead of file attachments is a fundamental game-changer. Links enable you to email huge presentations with tons of images and video, easily share them on social media sites, and update them no matter if you’ve already sent them out or posted them to your website. (more…)

Presentations have never had it so good. Once a stagnant medium for communicating with captive audiences, they are now freely shared and broadly consumed on blogs, twitter, email, and even sites similar to YouTube that host millions of presentations. Why the surge in sharing? The reason is simple: Presentation programs have been rewired, reinvented, and set free.

Presentation Programs ‘Before’

In years past, even as the number of PowerPoint users has swelled to the hundreds of millions, presentations have been tightly bound by the inherent limits of PowerPoint. (more…)

Perhaps you’ve been lulled to sleep by PowerPoint. Perhaps you’re feeling PowerPoint 2010 wasn’t fundamentally different from PowerPoint 2007 (or PowerPoint 2003 for that matter). Perhaps you have a right to demand a fresh approach to presentations!

Truth is, hundreds of thousands of people have shunned PowerPoint and opted for greener pastures. And as it turns out, people have found the online presentation pasture to be the most lush! (more…)

There’s no doubt Fotolia is a great source of stock images for business presentations. But even with such beautiful stock photos to choose from, or perhaps because there are so many, it can be overwhelming to find the best business image for your slide presentation design.

Here are, in our estimation, the top new images posted to Fotolia in the last month under the theme of “motion”. (more…)

Emailing a PowerPoint presentation seems like it should be a simple thing. But all the slide design stock images, video and audio that can make a PowerPoint compelling are the very things that make emailing PowerPoint slideshows so clumsy. Those assets quickly balloon a PowerPoint’s file size, which is where the trouble begins.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have the presentation online? This way when you email the presentation you’re just sending a link. How easy is that? Try SlideRocket for free and find out.

Emailing a PowerPoint – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Emailing anything but a basic PowerPoint requires a fair amount of preparation, communication and wizardry. But everything should go as planned so long as the following criteria are met:

1. Your recipient has PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer
2. You properly embedded any audio files in the correct folder
3. You properly embedded any video files in the correct folder (more…)