The PresenterNet Advantage

InterActor technology collects and stores onscreen audience responses

Proprietary PresenterNet interactive slide technology enables presenters to request, view and store onscreen responses from web conferencing audience participants. The presenter can view each individual audience response in real time, while the information is also stored in a database for later use.

Audience members answer questions, provide feedback, or enter information, using PresenterNet's proprietary InterActors. InterActors are special graphics added to slides to accommodate mouse clicks, slider settings, item selection, keystrokes and other information formats.

Presenters using InterActors raise their presentations to an exciting new level. As audience members become participants in an interactive presentation, they view every slide with a high level of understanding. Realizing that they may be called upon to add feedback; or that their responses may elicit comments; audience members pay close attention. Research demonstrates that these participants retain far more information than they would gain from an ordinary one-way lecture.

Information captured from web conferencing audience members adds additional value to the presenter. The stored information can be transferred to other programs, without requiring additional keyboarding. For example, sales people can collect contact information without having to type it after each presentation. In training environments, presenters can actually quiz trainees onscreen and have each student's responses recorded for evaluation.

Well-planned interactive presentations can also capture information about user needs that become part of a customized follow-up response. For example, a presentation attendee may ask for additional information, or specify needs to create a sales order.

Using Interactive Slides to Develop New Business

Interactive slides provide substantial advantages in any online sales environment. Customers stay focused during an interactive session and understand the sales material far better than in a one-way, lecture-only presentation.

Most participants remain deeply engaged, especially when they understand that their personal contributions are immediately entered into the system. Unlike one-way, lecture-only web conferencing and presentations, interactive slides added to PowerPoint can be used to guide the presentation's focus. In many cases, customers re-direct the emphasis of a presentation by pinpointing a solution they are seeking. Instead of sitting through numerous general-purpose messages, they respond onscreen and guide the presenter to address their actual needs.

In other scenarios, sales people display interactive slides that transform the presentation into an actual order-taking session. When important details are still fresh, the interactive presentation provides an ideal environment for customers to furnish details for actual purchase orders, RFQ's, RFP's, investment portfolio recommendations, etc.

Many salespeople initiate their online presentations with interactive slides that collect customer-specific data for profiling. For example, a financial advisor may offer numerous products addressing a broad range of investor profiles. However, a far more compelling presentation will result when a client interactively furnishes essential information like investment goals, current investments, portfolio size, etc., to transform the presentation into a custom-tailored portfolio review. Interactive data gathering in this situation can therefore result in specific recommendations, and follow-up actions.