An investment banking presentation can be deadly boring, especially potential investors. Thick booklets of printed information, charts, graphs. Who has time to study and evaluate all of this information? Can you? I just throw it into the trash basket, unread. Some dedicated person spent uncountable hours preparing this information, but I don’t care. I don’t have time to read it. The day of the paper investment banking presentation may be over, however, to be replaced with the video presentation.

Imagine the interested prospect, looking for an investment opportunity. He receives a pile of book-length sales brochures from your competitors. How does he handle them? He pages through them, heaves a sigh, and tosses them in with the Styrofoam cup and donut wrapper. How can you stand out? You can stand out by getting off the paper and onto the screen. Talk to your prospects directly by way of the computer-based video. In a company profile video, you can put your people in front of the prospect just as if they were visiting in person, and they can speak the words that the prospect wont take time to read. You can tell your story pictorially and make it real for the viewer. You can walk them through a virtual tour of your facility. You can introduce your people to them. And all of this can happen just through your web site. With a video on the web, the viewer can see your video whenever is convenient, and as often as he likes.

A similar unread paper presentation is the annual report. Annual reports are required of public companies and are based on data that can be intrinsically interesting. But, no matter how innovative the design or how beautiful the photography, they still consist of words to be read. You can be ahead of the pack if you re-envisage your annual report as an innovative video annual report. Bring your boring data to life. Bring your company into visibility. Make your readers sit up and pay attention.

The third option is the road show. A professionally, even artistically, produced video can replace the need for your people to travel. Your prospects can see who you are and what you offer right on their computer. This video can show your people, your facility, and your product. It wont be just another PowerPoint slide show, although this presentation can contain slide show-type material. Your prospects will see a living representation of your company, its people, and its offerings.

The company that prepares your video can also promote it through a widely distributed press release containing a hot link back to your video. An e-mail message can be distributed to 50,000 qualified recipients. These recipients can then easily pass on your video to their colleagues through Web 2.0 sharing and book marking tools.

This exciting, new technology can revitalize your efforts to reach your prospects in an innovative way. At the same time, these videos will replace reams of paper with flying electrons, reducing waste, energy usage, and pollution. They work to your great advantage while eliminating disadvantages.