Turning “Traditional” Marketing Assets Into Interactive Digital Presentations

Many companies have been increasing their digital marketing assets over recent years. Right now, with an increasing number of Americans reporting that they are working remotely, the need for those materials is being fast-tracked.

Right now it is harder, if not impossible, for sales teams, product managers and service reps to be face-to-face with existing customers or new potentials sales. With no factory tours, no on-site meetings and no trade shows in the foreseeable future, the need to ensure your communications are effective is critical. Marketing assets need to support brand positions, look professional, be high-quality, and work even harder than before… since you and your team can’t always be there to talk directly to the customer.

Features to Make Your PDFs More Engaging

If you are looking to shift your marketing presentations to be more digital and more engaging, consider how you can leverage your existing “traditional” sales tools – like brochures, line cards or sell sheets – and change static PDFs into something more interactive. While many businesses already use basic features, like embedded hyperlinks or signatures, there are other useful tools that are often overlooked.

Here are some suggestions that can make traditional PDFs feel and function more like an interactive presentation:

1. Make Sales Tool Easy to Navigate. 

Your customer may not need (or want) to read the information you are presenting in a 1, 2, 3, 4, page order. Similarly, if you are in a teleconferenced presentation, accessing visuals that support your commentary quickly and easily is critical.  Considering adding a navigation menu on every page of your PDF, slightly adapting the design to allow for a clear and understandable user experience. This will help readers move quickly through a multi-page document and access the pertinent information they are looking for.

2. Make a PDF Easier to Browse with Hide/Show Details. 

Allowing a reader to quickly review and sort content allows people to find the specifics they want more easily. An interactive PDF can include features such as rollovers or click animation effects. These features can allow a reader to consolidate dense information into clearly organized content blocks – revealing product specifications, features boxes and technical descriptions easily by simply clicking on a button. 

3. Embed Videos Into the Layout.

Little compares to the power of video when communicating information. Whether showing product demonstrations, instructional tutorials or customer testimonials – video can quickly tell a story with little reader effort. By including video assets in your document, a simple PDF instantly becomes more robust. Depending on the final delivery of your PDF, or your file size limitations, you can also embed video links or “calls” to a video hosted on YouTube or Vimeo.

4. Embed & Capture Form Data. 

If you have gotten a customer to engage with your document, you want to make it as easy as possible for them to continue their journey through the sales funnel. Considering including forms in your PDFs – either to collect general contact info, allow customers to submit a quote request, or even to collect orders. Like website forms, PDF forms can be individually set, sending unique form information directly to the right person in your organization.

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