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Why are more and more meeting planners and conference organisers using CD and online services to deliver presentations?

To drive attendance for the next event

The most powerful way to reach non-attendees is to show them just what they’re missing. Extracts and compilations of great sessions will prove that it’s a must attend the next time. (and if some presentations need a little help to become great, use our PowerPoint Makeover for fast, cost effective results.)

To generate revenue

Conference presentations are assets. You can choose to deliver knowledge free or via a purchase option (using WorldPresenter e-Shop)

For sponsorship

Most sponsorship items have a very limited life when the event closes. By putting the online presentations at the heart of your post event website, you not only maintain interest and communication, you deliver the sponsors presence every time a presentation is played.

For the environment

Putting presentations online after the event not only ensures that accompanying documents in Word, PDF or Excel stay together embedded within the presentation, it saves a huge amount of printing and expensive distribution.

To give delegates the service they are coming to expect.

Be honest, most meetings and conferences contain far more learning than delegates can possibly absorb. Multitrack events mean that they cannot attend everything and even those they do attend can sometimes blur together after an intensive day at conference.  Understanding, memory and application can be helped considerably by making presentations available online. By ensuring that your customers achieve a positive return on their investment, you also secure a positive ROI for the event and its future.

In a bind?

Conference binders are expensive. A 4-ring binder capable of holding 150 pages with a custom silkscreened 2-color cover costs £2.95 each based on a quantity of 500. Divider tabs will add another 30p and printing 150 pages in 500 sets will add £3.00. Transport of all materials comes to 50p

Finally there’s the cost of collating and assembling everything. With 75,000 sheets of paper, it’s nobody favourite task and it adds a further 50p making it £7.25 each or £3625.00 in total.

That would pay for the complete production of 37 conference sessions in WorldPresenter’s online format. And if you do away with the binder, you have nothing to go in the conference bag. That would save a further £2.50 each or £1250 which would create another 13 conference sessions - 52 in total. That would easily cover all the main plenary sessions and many of the most popular breakouts.

Any displaced sponsorship revenue can be recouped from sponsorship sales in online presentations (and sponsors will certainly wish to associate themselves with your environmental initiatives.)

The end result is a much improved product for your delegates, increased revenue, and a significantly better record in environmental care. You could highlight your efforts by spending 10% of your savings on carbon offset - enough to neutralise the impact of several delegates flying to the event.

Suddenly you’ve gone from bottom of the green list to the top

Why PowerPoint is great live but poor as a publishing format

We love PowerPoint ( we have to, we see thousands of PPT files a year.) But it’s not a good publishing format.

If you give someone a PowerPoint file they will usually follow the minute/second rule: for each minute the presentation lasted they will spend one second looking at it. So, a presentation that took 45 minutes to deliver at the podium will get their attention for 45 seconds. It might have some limited value for a delegate that sat through, and understood the live live session. But for the non-attendee (including delegates that attended alternative tracks) bullet point slides are poor teachers.

When you add back in the presenter’s voice to explain the points on the slides they make sense, and that is precisely what we do.

After all, how would you feel if, having loved the movie you bought the DVD and it had no soundtrack?

Look, but don’t touch

The other reason that PowerPoint is not good for publishing is that it’s unsecure. Why should speakers invest their time and experience in crafting great looking PowerPoints, if someone can just download and copy them? World Presenter’s Flash based format makes it far more difficult to copy and completely impossible to re-engineer slides back into PowerPoint. It’s the presenters’ choice over PowerPoint or PDF every time