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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Brainshark's audio annotation system is a power presentation tool that allows you to convert your boring, outdated slideshows into engaging and powerful audio presentations.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)

Sharing your content (Become an expert)


In today's data-driven society, leveraging the power of social media can instant gains in sales enablement, leading to higher clickthroughs, conversions, and revenue. This section will cover how to share your content with the world.

How to do it...

The following steps will demonstrate how to share your Brainshark presentations on various social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn:

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

  2. Brainshark allows you to share presentations with over hundred social widgets and networks. Feel free to browse the options by clicking one of the options:

  3. Go through the sharing process for the social widget or network you have chosen and confirm that it has been posted. If not, be sure to contact the Brainshark support line to report the bug.

How it works...

Ensure that you are getting an effective return on investment for your content. The social networks for which content typically goes viral are:

  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • LinkedIn

  • YouTube

We will cover publishing to YouTube in the next recipe.