Inbound Marketing Tips for Your Small Business

Three Alternative Presentation Applications for Inbound Marketing Professionals
Are you tired of watching boring power point presentations and even more burnt out creating them?  As a small business owner engaging in inbound marketing techniques, presenting is a part of your everyday life. You present while conversing with prospects and clients while you work to grow your business, within your own organization, and when you promote your business online.  Listed below are some great alternatives to the mundane presentations that your inbound marketing small business can use to spice it up a bit:

Slide Rocket is a web based presentation application that is available to download for free right into your favorite browser.  This program is also slide based just like Microsoft Power Point, but it opens up endless possibilities to design and transform your presentations from mind-numbing to memorable.  Presentation software is not confined to your desktop anymore.  Slide Rockets excels at allowing the user to integrate substantial graphics with mild wording.  (Perhaps insert a link here to preview one of the presentations done on this software.)

Prezi is also an online based presentation application, but it has gone in the complete opposite direction of slide based presentations.  Instead, you can create nonlinear presentations with the ability to zoom in and out on a diagram of all of your information.  It sounds very technical and difficult to use, but this program is very user friendly and the site offers plenty of starter videos and sample presentations that you can actually edit during a demonstration.  The best way to learn about this unique software is to watch a presentation and then play around with the software to get a feel of how user friendly it really is.

Google Docs offers their own presentation software that is really geared toward collaborative presentations between two or more people.  If you already have an existing Power Point presentation, you can upload it right to this online application and edit it from there.  This allows all allowed editors of the presentation to see when each and every person edits the presentation.  This is ideal for working on presentations together in your small business, but perhaps when you cannot physically be in the same workspace together.

These are all viable options as Microsoft Power Point alternatives, but the ultimate decision is up to you: Do you want to continue to produce dull, flat presentations that no one even cares about, or would you rather stand out among your competition and bring life to your presentations that will engage your target audience and add value to your customers.

All of these presentation options will allow you to link to your presentation from your website. Use your presentation slides as part of your next blog post.