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Instant Brainshark

By : Daniel Li
Book Image

Instant Brainshark

By: Daniel Li

Overview of this book

Brainshark's audio annotation system is a power presentation tool that allows you to convert your boring, outdated slideshows into engaging and powerful audio presentations. Alongside its mobile functionality and customer feedback capabilities, it provides an easy-to-use interface for anyone from account executives to sales directors. "Instant Brainshark" will quickly get you started with creating online presentations and web presentations following best practices. The book covers the basics of BrainShark and explores a variety of best practices in both Internet marketing and presentation design to help you build effective and powerful presentations. Instant Brainshark will start you off with the basic functionality of BrainShark in order to introduce you to the best practices involved in presentation design. Then, it will guide you through a series of important and useful recipes that will show you how to reach customers via various marketing channels. You will learn how to find customers through social media networks, whether they be on a desktop computer or mobile device, as well as how to get feedback from your valued customers. You will also dig into BrainShark's audio annotation system and learn how to get the most out of it by following the recommended guidelines. Lastly, the book will guide you through a recipe on how to upload your BrainShark audio presentations as videos on YouTube, furthering the exposure of your presentations. Using Instant Brainshark, you will learn everything you need to know, from starting your first presentation and applying audio annotations to sharing it across multiple social media websites and retrieving customer feedback.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

E-mailing your content (Become an expert)


In order to keep in touch with your clients, you may be keeping an e-mail list for subscribers that are interested in your product. This section will investigate how to fully utilize your list through Brainshark's e-mailing functionality.

How to do it...

The following steps will demonstrate how to use Brainshark's e-mailing functionality:

  1. Under the Things you can do menu, click on the Share link.

  2. Fill in the fields according, e-mail addresses with commas. The Send me a copy option will send you an e-mail preview of your message and Notify me when this is viewed option will send you an e-mail once your recipients have received the content.

  3. Once you are finished filling the fields, click on the Send button to issue the e-mail invitations.

How it works...

Note that all e-mails sent out by Brainshark must comply with the CAN-SPAM act. equirements include:

  • You cannot send false or materially misleading information through either the body or subject

  • If you send e-mail without going through Brainshark, you must ensure include an opt-out or unsubscribe link

By complying CAN-SPAM, you ensure that you are not blocked by spambots over time and can better cater to the standards that your customers are already accustomed to.