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What is the most critical point in your sales cycle? This is a question that perplexes sales organizations daily. In most cases, the most critical point is that point where a customer flips from being an interested bystander to a willing customer. But how do you know when this will happen?

If you just sit back and wait, you will never know when it happens. But if you proactively create the moment, you can be prepared to monitor and record it. With interactive presentations this seemingly impossible task becomes routine. By creating a scenario in your presentation where you are controlling what the audience is seeing and interacting with, you are in a position to capture their input at a moment when their emotions are highest and they are most likely to move towards a purchase decision.

Let’s say, for example, that you are promoting a new sculptor in your art gallery. The typical approach is to present a slide show of works by that artist and the sometime later, ask the audience what they thought. But what if you provided a 3-D rotating sculpture? The audience rotates the 3-D image to an angle they find most pleasing. On that same screen they provide input through a slider conveying their impression.

You are gathering information when they are interactively engaged and emotionally involved with your product.  This is what we call “Interactivity at Point of Business.”

Try it with your product or service. PresenterNet allows you to place interactive elements on any slide in your presentation providing the ultimate in control over emotion-driven information gathering.

I’d love to hear your comments on how you use Interactivity at Point of Business.

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There has been plenty of buzz in the past several years about ‘agile’ organizations. Agility usually refers to an organization’s ability to quickly adapt to change as it happens in technology, markets or even in the internal dynamics of a company. Software has been categorized as agile if it is easy to change, upgrade and improve its functionality along with these organizational shifts.

Agility vs Nimbleness

Even in agile organizations running agile software, salespeople and other employees for whom communications is key need to be ‘nimble.’ A person who is nimble is able to make rapid adjustments while remaining ‘light on their feet.’ Agility is water in a stream moving quickly around obstacles such as boulders and fallen logs. Nimbleness is a leaf floating on the water’s surface in that stream.

Why be Nimble?

The answer is straightforward actually — because you are surrounded by an agile environment. The corporate overview slides that preview any sales presentation may change frequently in an agile orgnization. New funds are raised, new customers acquired or maybe a new product line is launched. If you are a field sales rep and are not always in a position to get the lastest PowerPoint presentation from the home office, tools such as Presenternet allow you to ensure that you have the latest information at your fingertips – automatically! When corporate marketing updates the company slides, they are uploaded to Presenternet and instantly deployed to the sales force. This is the power of corporate media asset management and a key component of the Presenternet system.

One of the first steps to ensuring that you are nimble enough to maximize your performance in the field is make a list of presentation materials that might likely change on a moment’s notice and ensure that they are managed by headquarters. Then you’ll never have to wonder if your materials are up to date.

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The recent deluge of available Webinars shows that the business world has finally decided that they are a viable element in any closed-loop marketing strategy. You can find Webinars on just about any topic and they range from free to several hundred dollars to attend.

As technology evolves and business people look for better results from their Webinars, they discover the true interactive capabilities of Presenternet. Collecting input and feedback from the audience at every step of the Webinar means that when the Webinar is complete, you have a sorted list of qualified sales leads ready for follow-up. By collecting input from your audience and storing it for later reports, you are cutting your sales process time by as much as half. As the industry progresses and more adn more companies turn to marketing Webinars as a mainstay of business, competition for audience mindshare will increase. Be sure to plan your Webinar properly and don’t spend any more time than you have to with follow-up. Take control of your data and deliver results from every dollar invested in Webinars.

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