Quickshow ‘30 Seconds ‘elevator pitch”
We provide both the local recruiting officer and the local support staff with the tools and methods to fulfill their command organization new service member recruiting and existing service member retention goals and objectives.

What is the problem Quickshow solves?
There is an over-abundance of classic information.  There is also a tremendous amount of distraction in the commercial / civilian world.  There is not enough time for anyone to receive and process all the information, advertising, and opportunities. 
Quickshow provides lightweight reminder messages that 1. Provide summary  2. Remind of what is available and how to get it  3. Provides a Quickly Discernable message  3. Does not distract with complex or  multiple messages.  4. Provides easy to understand information. 
Quickshow solves the over-abundance issues without the filtering and time commitment of regular media, making Quickshow a more acceptable multiple-access product for multiple uses. 

What is the difference between ‘pull information’ and ‘push information’?
Quickshow is pull information, similar to micro-messaging services.  Pull information is requested, and subscribed.  Pull information generally has higher value because it is generally assumed that the customer has made a decision to retrieve, or pull information.
Push information quickly looses value quickly because it is ‘broadcast’ and ‘not specific’.  Generally there’s a larger volume of push information, therefore it is quickly perceived to have a white noise quality.  Push information can be characterized as a rack of brochures that you walk by every day and never look at. Push information can be characterized as junk mail. 

For the recruiting officer, what is the primary value of the Quickshow product?
In either in manual mode or automatic mode, the Quickshow product provides a reminder of things said in meetings, information handed out previously (that the service member already may have a copy of), and a brief opportunity, when the timing is right, to remind.

What differentiates the Quickshow service?
There are three key differentiators to Quickshow.
First we are not creating new media. We are creative. Quickshow accepts existing media and makes it fresher.
Second, Quickshow provides a small ‘pull’ message. Rather than a large DVD (and you should take 20 minutes to play the DVD at home) Quickshow is a reminder that the DVD for brochure is available. 
Third provides recruiting and retention advisory services. This means that regardless of the recruiting officer’s location ( in a car, at their office , planning their day , at any location and any time ) or training or familiarity with Quickshow,  the recruiting officer as access to a consultant who will complete the information request.

Why is the Quickshow fast message approach needed?
We believe that there are four rules of messaging. 

1. Lightweight information can have high value. 
2. Lightweight information should be provided immediately.
3. Lightweight information should be personalized, since it does not have the stigma of mass production ( printing press, bulk  electronic media etc.)
4. Heavy weight Information, brochure and other requested and delivered media as a push product, can be effectively led by lightweight media. 

Follow these rules to increase value.  Don’t follow the rules and you are Out of Context.
The historical result of out of context heavyweight media push messaging is that when a service member receives an unsolicited brochure it is likely to be saved in a pile along with other ‘somewhat’ important information until it is finally out of date or discarded.

Why is the Quickshow message counselor approach needed?
Quickshow Rich media e-mail is quickly created because the message counselor is involved.  Quickshow’s are purpose built to the needs of the recruiting officer in the Quickshow message counselor.  This means that the available resources changes quite frequently—along with the information needs of the service member and the recruiting officer.
The Quickshow counselor provides an important information link between what is currently available, to provide answers and information from the Quickshow resource,  and a link to the situation the recruiting officer finds themselves in. 

The message counselor provides alternative options to be recruiting officers are provided encouragement and confidence with their existing media and with the sales and information task that is a core function of the recruiting and retention job description

What are the four services of the Quickshow product?

1. Creative suite of new media messaging services,
2. immediate responsiveness to the information request,
3. on target messaging—not a large volume of information that the servicemember needs to pick through to find information; reference and
4. links to and fulfillment service for existing media and websites

 

Explain the difference between the manual Quickshow presentation and the automatic Quickshow?
The manual presentation can be either initiated by the recruiting officer or by the Quickshow counseling team.  Manual Quickshow is generally a single message. 
The automatic Quickshow can be considered to start with a single message, followed by a predetermined number of automatic messages.  Automatic messages look like they were created manually in our personalized and are delivered at a predetermined pace (measured as an offset in days since the original message)

What is automatic messaging?
Automatic messaging consists of a fixed number of text messages, rich media messages and Quickshow messages delivered automatically over a predetermined time interval.
As an example:  an automatic message sequence that is four messages delivered over a two-week interval that begins a conversation, reminds, sets up the final delivery, and then completes the final delivery of a subject area. 
The difference between automatic messaging and, for example, a monthly newsletter, is the termination of the Quickshow automatic message while the newsletter continues.

Compare with a contemporary, commonly used crowd media service such as YouTube.
Quickshow compares with HuLu in video quality.  Quickshow is approximately 4 to 6 times higher quality images than Youtube. 
The obvious viewing comparison is that YouTube and HuLu are advertising supported services, providing a video with many distractions around the edge of the video . 
Quickshow does not distract from its single message.  Quickshow’s are typically one quarter to 1/10th the file size of streaming video.
Quickshow’s start playing instantly.
By comparison streaming video can have an indeterminate spooling up time.

Compare with a micro message service
Quickshow text messages are a form of micro-message, just like instant message on her cell phone.   In fact Quickshow provides an instant message reply service as an option right inside any Quickshow. By selecting the Quickshow instant message reply feature the service member responds directly back to the sending officer.

Provide a comparison with other emerging mobile technologies.
Quickshow’s video-like data stream is a native format to the recently announced Android operating system.  Quickshow’s are automatically converted to FLV format ( YouTube format ) and there’ve for play natively on iPhone

How does the Quickshow solution work
Quickshow solution is ‘user need’ driven. This means that the solution evolves over time as the needs of the recruiting officer and the service member change.   Fresh new shows and new e-mail messages are created to respond to user information needs.  The creation of new shows and messages is not driven by a central authority. 

Describe the Quickshow creative service
Using existing brochure and DVD and webpage materials that Quickshow creative service summarizes existing messages.  This means that Quickshow is not slowed by the delay of the new message creative process.  We quickly create shows for a specific purpose, from existing and approved webpages and brochures,  and bundle the shows into the new service member recruiting process and existing service member retention process.

 

Describe the Quickshow lite service
The creative service builds shows. The lite service provides a manual and automatic message delivery service that can be under the single or mutual control of the Quickshow counselor and the designated recruiting officer.

Can Quickshow provide multi-purpose messages?
Yes. We call multiple messages a sequence of messages.  Just like a paragraph is built from several sentences, Quickshow’s are easily assembled into sequences of messages that can tell complex stories and provide all the features and benefits of a complex message environment.

How does the Quickshow solution integrate with existing recruiting systems
We all right lightweight new message service that is an extension of existing recruiting systems.
Since we are lightweight and inexpensive Quickshow is more agile and able to provide early screening information two existing recruiting systems which will result in improving the effectiveness of existing news service member recruiting materials.

How does the Quickshow solution integrate with existing retention organizations?
There are many government support organizations that provide valuable support services, in support of existing service member retention. 
Quickshow is the only product that seamlessly integrates information from all existing retention systems under the control of the local recruiting officer. 
Information about medical or educational benefits or Department of Labor programs or USERRA rules, can all be provided as summary text information immediately and backed up ‘on message’ Quickshow within three days. 

Does Quickshow implement command authority?
Yes. All messages can be stopped. All messages can be revised. A single unified message can be sent out to all service members by the command authority or by a single e-mail or phone call to the Quickshow consultant.

What are the time and resource requirements?
Quickshow provides status and activity reports that significantly reduce the time and distractions, therefore the resource requirements of the command authority and the recruiting officer.  Since we provide looking forward current activity in past activity reports that are literally a pencil checkmark away from next step there is very limited additional requirements.

Is any software required on a government computer?
No software is required for light, light manual and light automatic.  The Quickshow creative software is a Java-based client and server application that does conform to Department of Defense unclassified standards .  Data between the Quickshow creative client is encrypted. 
Light can operate without a computer or as a HTML webpage.  For those locations that request or require total PII control, we provide either an Excel spreadsheet or an access database.  If either Excel or access issues the customer application talks directly to the Quickshow server and no meal or personal information is saved retained or available from any log file on the Quickshow server.

How will this affect retention goals
A generally recognized number is that 40% of National Guard and Army reserve service members who remove themselves from the guard do this because of parents spells and other family member pressures.  Most parents spouse and family members are not interested in reading a military brochure to discover some reason that their service member should stay in the National Guard.  Quickshow delivers a point on message about reasons, benefits, and examples that provide the family member with information for them to provide retention support to the service member.

How will this affect new recruit quality goals
In today’s slow-moving economy most national guard and Army reserve units find themselves with an excess quantity of new recruit opportunities.  Before investing money into medical exams and other cost allocation procedures, Quickshow provides information that the civilian mentality accepts as they are positioning themselves as a new recruit opportunity.  This very simple scenario lowers the cost of recruiting and screens out from the selection process those individuals that will unqualified themselves.

How can Quickshow affect recruit quality goals
Quickshow is a contemporary information and streaming media service. 

 

What is the effectiveness of rich media compared with plain text.
Historically it is recognized that rich media—images and text and audio—is up to 78% more effective than text alone in providing the context of a message and the immediate recognition of what the message is about.  This is a good place to be and this alone justifies the use of Quickshow for “permitting in” the right message at the right time

 

Statement of work
Quickshow will provide an inventory of Quickshow messages, rich image and text e-mails, and plaintext e-mails and eloped into a responsive new member recruiting an existing service member retention.

Quickshow will provide telephone counseling to recruiting officers about what Quickshow’s are available, other military programs and information that is available and guidance and message continuity suggestions.

Quickshow will provide routine activity reports that describe past Quickshow activity, current activity that has been created by manual or automatic processes, and activity tracking reports.

 

 

Call Center Sales and Service

With a call center, your business is both time and distance shifted.
This is a really tough way to establish a business relationship, to find needs and explain solutions, and to discuss the details of your product.

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But, it IS LESS expensive than the alternatives! Call centers are more cost effective than 'on the street' sales.

Quickshow allows each service rep to establish a high-value relationship. Just like being there, time and distance shifted, but with audio and HD images.

HISTORY:
How effective are your telephone calls and email messageses? You know exactly how effective they are. You live that world every day.
Train your center personnel.
They call and talk the same message.
Explain the same story every time.
From introduction to sales close, the same story over and over.

At least that's the theory. Reality is different. Corners are cut, and stories get edited, and garbled.

Rather than lose control about what message reachs your customers, you can let your centrally created Quickshow messages reach out with your perfect message from every sales person.

Each of our brief messages is on target, on topic, with a repeatable goal. The goal? A clearly articulated presentation guiding to your customer's expectations!

With Quickshow you maintain control of the brand message and details. Your sales staff selects the specific message.

Each Quickshow media messageis personal with name and email and phone number. Fast and easy turn-around.

Before Quickshow it was IMPOSSIBLE to depednably and accurately extend your brand message into sales person activity. Previously impossible now becomes routine. You have more finely detailed messages for more important, more profitable business activity.

Whatever the proposal calls for, regardless of the special need or the very routine courtesy response, a Quickshow message guarantees your crisp and on-target response.

Financial Services

Stock brokers, loan officers, insurance agents all financial agents. All have disclosure rules.

The financial industry has both state and federal information disclosure and compliance regulations. The financial and insurance industry is based upon expectations and every forward-looking statement has restrictions about what you can say and how to set proper expectations. Find your natural solution with Quickshow.

Security compliance requirements are tough to check, conform to and standardize. But, it is so very easy to comply with Quickshow. Use your existing paragraphs.  Comply at the message beginning or message summary. You know what is said and viewed.

Loan officers have a unique opportunity, and this to explain the loan origination, documentation requirements and each loan closing process step.

Financial services professionals conform, create their message, quickly create centrally compliant message.
Loan Officers work individually, within specialization groups, to accomplish your financial message goals.
Securities Specialist, establish your expertise and enthusiasm in all your product areas--- estate planning, tax avoidance planning, stocks and mutual funds, etc. with Quickshow!

No matter what the financial application, whatever the proposal calls for, regardless of the special need a Quickshow message guarantees your crisp and on-target response

Training Solutions

The Quickshow training application includes pre-class, during class, and after classroom applications.

Pre CLASS materials:

• Each Quickshow takes only minutes to create.
  
• It is almost instantly placed in a mini-web page.
  
• It is automatically linked to a rich media email.
  
• Send the email from your email server using Outlook, CRM software, etc. or from the Quickshow email server.
  
• Your students have early exposure, and get to class materials faster.

Classroom support:

• Each Quickshow takes only minutes to create. It is almost instantly placed in a mini-web page and linked to a rich media email.Send the email from your server or from the Quickshow email server.
  
• Use Quickshows to break up the presentation. For very complex materials it’s important to have multiple presentations. For costly equipment demonstrations you avoid the equipment set up time and expense.
  
• No what the event, whatever the proposal calls for, regardless of the special need or the very routine courtesy response, a Quickshow message guarantees your crisp and on-target response.