2008年11月27日星期四

How to insert Flash Video to PowerPoint and convert PowerPoint to FLV

What is FLV video format?
FLV is the short term for Flash Video, a kind of video format that is accepted by many websites. Notable users of the flash video format include YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space.

How to insert FLV into PowerPoint?
Now and then, you may find attractive videos in FLV format on the above websites such as YouTube. Want to embed them in your PowerPoint and share with others?
As FLV is a video format that PowerPoint doesn’t accept, before embedding a FLV video into PowerPoint, you should convert FLV movie to a video format that PowerPoint accepts such as MPEG, AVI, WMV and ASF. Below are three ways for you to do this:
1. If the FLV video is on YouTube or MySpace, follow these steps:
Copy the YouTube or MySpace video URL >>
Go to http://vixy.net (a free online conversion service), paste the URL in the conversion box >>
Select the output format such as AVI, MOV and MP4. Then click Start. The conversion process would be done automatically >>
When the conversion is done, download the output video to the local disk on your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)


2. If the FLV video is already on your computer, visit http://www.media-convert.com/ (a free online conversion service) and follow these steps:
Browse your local disk and select the FLV video needs to be converted >>

Select the output format you want, and click OK button on the right >>
When the conversion process is over, download the converted video to your computer >>
Insert the video to PowerPoint ( PowerPoint -> Insert -> Movies and sounds -> Movie from File)

3. Use some conversion software to do this: If you have lots of FLV videos need to be converted, you can use some professional conversion tool to help you save your time, because many tools support batch conversion. You can try this one Video Converter. It can help you convert your FLV (YouTube) video to almost all other video formats.

After inserting Flash Video from popular video sites to your PowerPoint, have you ever thought you can also upload your PowerPoint to these popular video sites for wide sharing? You can click here to know more benefits of uploading PowerPoint to online-sharing websites.

As it has been mentioned above, YouTube, Google video, Reuters.com, Yahoo video and My Space all accept video formats in FLV. Before uploading your PowerPoint to these sites, you need to convert your PowerPoint to FLV first. Here are some tools you can use to convert your PowerPoint to FLV.
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, Wondershare PPT to Video: help convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as FLV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.

After converting your PowerPoint to FLV, the next step is to upload the converted video to these websites. It’s all that easy. For more details about how to do it step by step, you can click here.

Choose the method you like to insert flash video to your PowerPoint, and convert your PowerPoint to FLV. Have more fun about it.

2008年11月9日星期日

Use Product Presentation to Boom your Sale during Christmas

As Christmas is coming, most business men would like to bet their sales fortune on this shopping season. In order to attract prospects at the critical first impression, appealing presentations are important to presenting your products in the best light possible. Especially under such an economic circumstance, using some cost-effective ways to help you promote your product is meaningful.

Why use PowerPoint to help you promote your product:
1. PowerPoint is available on most computers. And with the development of information technology, product presentation has become a powerful ad format for presenting products or for special promotions.
2. You can broadcast your product presentation on big screens in the main streets, on mobile TV, on Internet and so on.
3. Compared to asking an advertising company to make advertisement for you, making PowerPoint ad by yourself may help you save a lot.

As it to how to make an effective product PowerPoint presentation to advertise your product, below are some points that Mark J. Tiedeman points out. (Note: Mark Tiedeman has over 25 years in the high-tech telecommunications industry including 15 years in senior product management and marketing roles. He has served as Vice President of Marketing at Copper Mountain Networks and at Tut Systems and is currently providing marketing and product management consulting services.)

Before starting any product presentation, you should know what the purpose of your presentation is. As a product presentation, the purpose is to enhance the value of the product that is perceived by the audience. Depending on the circumstance, some presentations will be more overt than others in persuasion style.

The next important thing is to fix who the audience is for your presentation. Product presentation audiences can be segmented as follows:
• Within your company: sales, sales engineer, customer support, marketing, product management
• Distribution or solution partner: sales, sales engineer, engineering, support, marketing, manager, executive
• Customer: purchasing, engineering, operations, support, manager, executive. Additionally, customers should be segmented, as appropriate, by market and/or application.
• Investors
• Industry and market analysts
• Media

For more details of how to create an effective product presentation by Mark J. Tiedeman, you can click here: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/4/4/0608mjt

A well-done product presentation is just the first step of making advertisement for your product. To present it in various ways is the final purpose of making the masterpiece. Only in this way, you can make the most of your product presentation and let more potential users get your promotion idea. Finally sell out your product. Regarding this, below I list some most effective ways to help you present your product presentation.
1. Convert your product presentation to video. Then you will be able to upload the converted video to website in the advertising area; broadcast your product presentation on digital signage indoors and outdoors; let people see your promotion on TV within transport vehicles.

Benefits of doing so: Creating video advertisement with PowerPoint yourself is much more cost-effective than asking a third-party company to do that. And PowerPoint is easy to deal with. You can fix the content you want to spread freely.
In order to do this, all you need is a PowerPoint converter that can help you concert your product presentation to video. There are many such tools in the market, but here I would like to recommend some tools that I have experienced and function well. Wondershare PPT to Video and Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter. They can help you convert your PowerPoint to MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP and MOV that can be accepted by almost all media.

2. Burn your product presentation to DVD. Then you will be able to send a DVD disc to your premium customers and agents to provide them the promotion information.
Benefits of doing so: compared with written promotion documents, DVD promotion slideshow can be accepted more intuitively, as there can be animation, pictures, transitions and even background music, videos in a PowerPoint.

Also, with a DVD disc, your agents can conveniently spread the promotion information to their stuff by playing it on a big screen.
Tool recommended: Wondershare PPT2DVD. With it, you can also create DVD menus for your presentations for quick navigation.

A great product presentation could be the power for your Christmas boom. Use all effective tools and resources as you can to drive up your Christmas business.