PointDrive

This is quite unique web application in that it allows you to create professional presentations with a link which you can email to recipients. You can integrate your LinkedIn profile which is cool. You can edit a variety of aspects of your presentation easily including background, logo, title, descriptions, content as well as link to external resources based on your presentation. You can add content from Dropbox, any URL, videos from Youtube or Vimeo and Google Maps. You are able to preview your presentation ongoing. There are alerts when your presentation is viewed, engages aspects of it or shares your content. And it will also alert you three days after you've sent the presentation to ask whether you want to follow up. It's mobile friendly so you can view presentations and they look good on smartphones, tablets, laptops or desktops which is good. They have a number of marquee clients which helps add credibility.

I must have come upon an older review of this service because it noted that there was a free version at some point with a paid version at about ten dollars per month which is no longer the case. As much as I like the idea the previous pricing model seems to be on par with what I was expecting. The interactive content based presentation is a good idea. But it's not a whole lot different than setting up a dedicated webpage and linking to it while utilizing email tracking to measure engagement and other similar metrics. The fact that management reporting and insights are not included with their twenty five dollar USD per month plan is turn off as a small business owner if there are additional analytics not included. If it refers to insight regarding analyzing the entire team with the same insights possible then I can understand this. Perhaps it's their sales copy which could be clearer. I signed up for the individual trial so there was no way to confirm this at the time.

I really like this idea and there are a lot of purposes for it such as job hunting, sales proposals, educational follow ups and more. To me, if you don't have web development skills enough to setup a Wordpress portfolio type page or even a Wix website than this may be an easier option. But the pricing seems rather high to me compared to how I can create something similar for quite a lot less monthly. And I sincerely believe they should have inclusive features across all of their paid plans. To not have analytics included at their current price point is a justifiable use of this budget as a small business owner in my opinion. I can see the upside of this service as it would be a time saver for larger teams and I realize that is the target market they are going after. But for small businesses and start ups, or people looking to shop their resume there are more cost efficient ways to create better value and track it more affordably.