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Cool Ideas for Fresh Proposals II

Filed under: Business Development, Marketing, Organizational Development, Proposals, Tactics and Tools, Virtual Work — LRicci at 2:11 pm on Thursday, May 22, 2008
Would it help if you could deliver a sales presentation to someone who is not able to access a web meeting application?

Would it help if you could have proposal images and/or audio available to the customer at their convenience?

Below, you can watch a PowerPoint presentation I created for an SMPS meeting several years ago. I can restrict access to the folks whose email addresses I provide, or leave the file open to the public.

The service I’m using here is authorSTREAM. The service is free, so its a good thing to tuck away in your bookmarks.

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by LRicci
Some folks complain their clients don’t bother to visit sites constructed for them.Here’s a usability tip: Name the site after your prospect.
It is much more enticing for people to visit a site named after them, instead of a URL that looks even the least bit generic.
If your name is Mike Holder, which site would you visit?:
  • www.1Ricci.com/WhyYouShouldHireLaura.html
  • www.1Ricci.com/WhyTRCShouldHireLaura.html
  • www.1Ricci.com/MikeHolderTRC.html

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