Nate Riggs: Social Business Strategies; communication, social web strategies, & passion in Columbus, Ohio.

Presenting to potential clients is a huge part of my daily activities. The days of delivering the same agency design ed static presentation to everyone are long gone.

Each situation, each client and each opportunity requires elements of customization – especially when you are selling ideas and services.

So what are some of the challenges for business development and sales professionals when crafting that all important sales presentation?

• How do I customize my presentations quickly and easily, while maintaining the integrity of my company’s brand?
• With travel costs skyrocketing (along with the cost of just about everything these days), how do I leverage the web to conduct truly effective “virtual meetings”?
• When I send a prospect a presentation, or they are viewing from a remote location, how can I tell they are engaged? What metrics can I use?

To date, subscription services such as WebEx have provided desktop sharing solutions which allow parties in various locations to connect via conference call, while the administrator (i.e. the sales person) shares their desktop.

I’m willing to bet that if your a professional, you’ve sat through these types of meetings. With all due respect to the good people at WebEx and other desktop sharing applications, these solutions are simply…well…clunky.

A New Breed of Presentation Software

Enter SlideRocket! This innovative application has yet to be fully launched, but in my opinion, will change the way that sales presentations are delivered across the globe. From what I can tell, it deliverers on all of the questions listed above, and much more.

In the company’s own words:

SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

You can view the product demo here. (Which, might I add, been created by using the SlideRocket software)

Here, SlideRocket CEO Mitch Grasso dives deeper into how this SaaS application can be used.

I can’t wait to use this one!