Even though we're a hi-tech company, we're still easily stymied - and impressed - by technology. Case in point - we tried our first webinar yesterday - a basic 20 minute overview to Depiction - and it seemed to be well received in spite of a few technical glitches at the beginning. I had a chance to host it and really enjoyed the questions from attendees. We'll plan on doing those regularly so stay tuned.

One of the attendees - Keith - sent me an email tonight. He is a disaster prearedness consultant and he asked some more great questions on how Depiction could be used in his business. I posed some ponderings back at him and would be interested in your thoughts as either consultants or the clients of consultants. How could Depiction be a valuable tool in that relationship?

Here's what I sent Keith: "One of the things I’ve been wondering about is how a tool like Depiction could help a consultant such as yourself actually increase their business during down times. We know of a real estate analysis consultant who uses Depiction in his sales calls to some of the largest banks in the U.S. to illustrate how he can help them analyze their real estate portfolios. We’ve also had an engineering firm express interest in having their marketing folks use Depiction for public meetings or other presentations.

Perhaps you could use it to show potential customers the power of a contingency plan; most may not know what one is or they may think it is just another 100-page typed report that no one will ever look at again. In just a couple minutes in front of a depiction you could have them on the edge of their seats as they watch you place a couple evacuation routes from their company site and then show what happens to those routes if bridges are down or if a plume is moving across the city from the northwest. Or you could quickly import a spreadsheet of fictional employee addresses, place buildings where their facilities are located, and ask how they would keep those sites running if there was an earthquake and the employees could not get to their usual location. I have a feeling they’d say “Wow! We need a plan for that”. There is nothing like a visual to capture people’s attention…"

Thoughts?

-Mike

(the founder/head coach guy here at Depiction)