There’s one adage that rings true to pretty much every business: Presentation matters. If you want to grow your business, you need ads, collateral, and other assets that look professional and eye-catching. But what if you’re not a creative by trade? Expert brochure design isn’t a talent you’re likely to find in your average realtor or sales rep.
Luckily, there’s plenty of help out there that doesn’t require a $100 an hour design shop. Nowadays, there are all kinds of tools that anyone can use to create polished creative on their own. Even better, many of them work with Dropbox to streamline collaboration, organization, and sharing. Here are four tools that will help even the most non-creative make their business look sharp, professional, and ready to take on the world.
Create slick graphics with Canva
With a simple drag-and-drop interface, Canva helps you design everything from social media graphics to event flyers to brochures. Pick from thousands of templates, add in your images, adjust text, and you’re set. You can bring JPEGs, PNGs, and other images into Canva by selecting it from the file’s “Open” menu in Dropbox. Or within Canva, you can connect to Dropbox to access any images you have stored. Once you’re done designing, you can save your designs in Dropbox with just a few clicks.
Edit video with ease in Clipchamp
Video is a great way for a business to make its mark. If it’s not your bread and butter, though, video editing is a daunting undertaking. Things like file conversions, color balancing, and filters can be confounding to the uninitiated. But with online video editor Clipchamp, anyone can tell stories worth sharing. It’s easy to bring video recorded on your phone, camera, or camcorder into Dropbox with our camera uploads feature. And with our Clipchamp integration, it’s just as easy to edit that video. Open your Dropbox video files in Clipchamp to use in a new or existing project—no manual uploading or downloading required. When your project’s finished, you can export it to Dropbox. From there, you can share it with your team to gather feedback.
Broadcast to the world with Vimeo
Let’s say you’ve got that video project—maybe an ad or a product how-to—and you’re ready to publish it. Vimeo is the place. Choose any video stored in your Dropbox account straight from Vimeo, and you can upload it without having to wait by a sluggish internet connection. Then you can use Vimeo to share your video or embed it on a webpage or social media post.
Sharpen your presentations with Beautiful.ai
When you’re pitching a new client, the last thing you want them to focus on is how shoddy your deck looks. With Beautiful.ai, that won’t be a problem. The presentation tool gives you hundreds of customizable smart slides that make it easy to create professional decks. You can easily import assets from Dropbox and save your presentations back to Dropbox for sharing and safekeeping.
