CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, February 10, 2010

ClientShow: Smoother Pitches

WebWorkerDaily: "If you’re a creative professional, you’ve probably had to make a pitch to a new client. Unless you’re actually able to walk into your clients’ offices, managing those pitches remotely can be difficult. Email often can’t support the big files designers and other creatives work with, and other tools don’t provide real-time interactions at the level necessary for a pitch.
Realizing there was a gap in the market, ClientShow built a platform for pitching and interacting with clients that just went into beta."

2 comments:

Brian Rangell said...

This is a very interesting interface for creating pitches, and would be a very viable tool for presenting pitches remotely and over time zone differences, but I'm not sure how effective it would be in the grand scheme of the pitch process. The major draw of this application is the interactive Adobe interface, allowing clients to respond to the pitches easily and precisely to the media elements that inspire comment, but I can't tell if there's any ability for live streaming or presenting anything above and beyond sending a video. Scheduling is absurd with a prerecorded presentation anyway, let the client access it when it is convenient for them. Overall, not so much of a gain from a program like this.

Ethan Weil said...

This seems like an interesting tool. It's a good example of how some specific problems require very specific solutions, especially in the world of software. These solutions don't need to be gigantic or heavily capitalized, just carefully thought through and designed. It's unlikely that anyone will make a giant profit off of such a nice field, but it does serve a need for a segment of the population, and might even be able to pay for itself.