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How to Pitch Investors Using Video (with Examples)
Fundraising for startups has always been difficult, but doing so during the global COVID-19 pandemic has added a new dimension of challenges. One of the most immediate changes is that the entire fundraising process has shifted from in-person to remote interactions. No more coffee meetings, walk and talks, office visits, and … no more in-person […]
How Asynchronous Communication Improves Synchronous Meetings
As the team behind Hugo, the leading meeting notes platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that we love meetings. But what may surprise you is that one reason we love meetings is because we don’t have many. Using asynchronous communication instead of real-time meetings can dramatically improve the efficiency of your company, but how […]
How Qwilr Increased Sales Conversions By Up to 57% Using Loom
Humans, by nature, are visual learners. In fact, almost 90% of all the information our brains process is visual. So to best communicate a message, it only makes sense that including a visual element improves the effectiveness. We decided to run an experiment to increase conversions for one of our pre-sale efforts using video. Here’s the […]
Quick Tips From Loommates: How I Use Video to Collaborate on Web Animations
From adding dynamism to an onboarding flow to providing delightful interactions, animations are a powerful tool that can be functional, entertaining, and core to brand identity. Motion can help a brand be more memorable and expressive in the same way as art direction in photography or bold typography. As a Front-End Engineer at Loom, I’m always looking for new […]
11 Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace
As a company that spends a good deal of time thinking about effective communication, we’ve compiled our top, practical, real-world takeaways for interacting in the workplace.
Best Practices for Recording Your Remote Pitch Deck
I recently tuned into a virtual pitch competition featuring two startups I’m familiar with. I’d seen their pitches in person before the pandemic, so I was especially excited to see how they’d translate in a virtual format. Sadly, my enthusiasm didn’t last long. These otherwise dynamic presentations came across sloppily online for two reasons: The […]
How Doopoll Converted 2.13% More Users By Sending Welcome Videos Via Loom
When people say that “time is money,” what they usually mean is that they don’t have the time to interact in the way only humans can: with warmth, empathy, and attention. There are few places that this adage is more applicable than in the startup world. For the past five years, I’ve been building doopoll, a real-time […]
iPhone Screen Recording Tutorial
Now more than ever, people are relying on video communication to record what’s on their screens to document and share information at work. But when it comes to your iPhone screen, there are times when you may want a more efficient or powerful option for your video message for screen recording than Apple’s default app. Since work happens […]
Quick Tips From Loommates: Capture High-Level Details In Short Video Messages
When teams grow fast, it can be hard to keep tabs on what everyone works on from each week. As a brand designer, along with trying to catch up on what design projects my teammates have in progress, I also want to stay connected with them and our broader design cohort in an increasingly digital […]
20:VC Podcast: 3 Key Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
After listening to many of his episodes and feeling like I knew him, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Harry Stebbings. What a gem of a human. We got to have a chat for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC. Check out the episode here. We covered a range of topics, including: The 3 rules to […]
A Curated List of the Best Remote Work Websites & Resources
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are struggling to make the shift from co-located offices to remote work environments — a transition that under normal circumstances, would take a year or so to implement. Needless to say, these are hardly normal circumstances. Most people and organizations who are offering advice about remote work right […]
How Video Messages Help Our Design Team Collaborate
As we have scaled, Loom’s design team has grown from one person to a team of many. Building a team and shaping a budding design culture has its challenges, but using our product has helped us to build an open, collaborative environment. Recording quick videos in our day-to-day workflows helps us through every stage of […]
3 Steps to Improve Communication in the Workplace
Communication is an under-supported aspect of our workplace interpersonal dynamics, often dismissed as a nebulous “soft skill.” Many job descriptions, for example, state a preference for “excellent communication skills,” which can carry an abundance of meanings, or call for proficiency in written and verbal communication. This doesn’t do much to acknowledge the nuanced nature of […]
Faster Code Feedback Cycles with Loom in GitHub
With the Loom Chrome Extension in GitHub, adding context to your pull request or giving rich feedback is a single-click away. You can record, preview, and insert Loom videos directly into pull requests, issues, and wikis without switching between GitHub and Loom. If you’ve tried to add visual context in GitHub before you may have grappled with […]
11 Tweaks to Fine-Tune Your Remote Work Routine
The internet does not need another remote tips round-up. Those of us who have been thrust into full-time remote work are well aware we need to schedule breaks to avoid burnout, practice good Slack and Zoom etiquette, and take measures to separate work life from home life when working from home. Thank you. Yes. We’re […]