Get Presentations Onto Your Website With Slideshare

Slideshare has been around for some time and is a popular way of uploading your documents and expressing your theories or creativity among other members of this social networking site. You could describe it as a more focused YouTube, maybe. PowerPoint presentations of varying qualities are categorized and can be shared, tweeted, “facebooked” and have the capacity to go viral if they are worthy.

Slideshare has just introduced a business application, which seems sure to garner considerable interest. As they rightly point out, many marketing directors and webmasters alike are trying to decipher the social media phenomenon and work out how to get some traction out of exposure. How do you use the power of Web 2.0 to generate good leads and ultimately lead to tangible revenues?

If you gather together your story in slide form, be it a relatively simple production or an informational white paper of some kind, you should then create an account. Once you have uploaded your creation, the final production can be embedded into your website or blog page as a flash movie and you can also opt to allow it to be shared and downloaded by the viewing party. One of the beauties of the new Leadshare application is that you can register your campaign and opt to include lead capture forms within your slideshow presentation. You can opt to place the lead form on the first, third or fifth slide page for example and most interestingly of all you only pay when a lead is actually generated.

The promoters estimate that they attract over 20 million visitors per month and quite boldly claim that 80% of them are business decision-makers. Leads can be collected when people download the file, respond to your call to action or when you use a form to collect information.

If you simply want to get a presentation on to your website, Slideshare is one of the favorite resources for you.

Do you use a content sharing site like this?

Adam Toren