Happy Holidays from Sales Graphics!

Sales Graphics' Sponsors LuxuryLab Innovation Forum

Sales Graphics is proud to be the presentation sponsor for the LuxuryLab's first-ever Innovation Forum this Friday. To register for this event, click here. Held at TheTimesCenter, the forum will host thought leaders who will share never-seen-before research, trends, best practices, and a passion for ideas. A range of speakers will give presentations which will leave attendees with a well-rounded understanding of the current crossroads between media, technology and luxury.

Sales Graphics has been providing luxury brands with dynamic and engaging presentations, videos and marketing materials for over 50 years. As the presentation partner of choice for luxury and media brands, we are excited to work with LuxuryLab to help make the Innovation Forum a success and we look forward to it becoming an annual event for luxury brand marketers.

Uncovering Steve Job's Presentation Secrets

BusinessWeek contributor and communications coach Carmine Gallo has a interesting article and book about how Steve Jobs creates such effective and engaging presentations. Many of the tips that Gallo reveals from his study of Jobs' presentations are things that Sales Graphics' DesignStudio has been putting into practice for years—especially designing slides that are"devoid of bullet points". Easier said than done, but simple, focused slide design results in effective presentations and clear communications.

Bravo Launches Digital Roadshow with Sales Graphics

Bravo Media launched their Digital Roadshow presentation today. Designed by Sales Graphics' DesignStudio and built in CustomShow presentation software, Bravo's Digital Roadshow presents the full range of their digital capabilities and gives their sales team a powerful tool for presenting, explaining and selling Bravo's rich set of digital opportunities.

Built around a set of detailed and engaging demo videos that explain even the most complicated digital opportunities clearly and simply, the Digital Roadshow allows teams of television and digital salespeople to show advertisers the complete picture of Bravo's digital products and opportunities. And since it's in CustomShow, it's easy to use and easy to update for their entire sales team.

Glamour's 2009 Top 10 College Women Event Video

Glamour Magazine called on Sales Graphics' DesignStudio to create the video elements for their 2009 Top 10 College Women event. An inspirational event like this needed an inspirational and exciting video to open up the ceremony and a strong graphic style to tie together the ten video bios documented each of the exceptional women honored at the event. Sales Graphics' DesignStudio created a set of videos fit the bill.

Fox Cable Sports Signs Up for CustomShow

Fox Cable Sports Ad Sales, which includes Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Sports Net, FUEL TV and SPEED, has become the most recent member of the Fox Networks Group to adopt CustomShow as their presentation platform. Working closely with Sales Graphics' DesignStudio, Fox Cable Sports will be taking full advantage of CustomShow's design and management capabilities, including creating animated Flash backgrounds for each of the four networks and combining all of their presentations into a single managed library.

Sales Graphics Helps Family Circle Go Back to School

Family Circle Magazine wanted to announce their big September Back-to-School issue in a big way, so they came to Sales Graphics for help. Our Sales Graphics' DesignStudio created an exciting video email blast that brought to life the beautiful photography and really brought home the point that this was Family Circle's biggest issue ever!

Sales Graphics on Inc. 5000 List for Second Year in a Row

Inc. Magazine today ranked Sales Graphics Corp. on its annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country for the second year in a row. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy - America's independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.

Sales Graphics is proud to be among this elite list of exciting and future-thinking companies. Unlike most of them, however, Sales Graphics is not a new start-up, but a 50-year old company with a long history of providing innovative presentation solutions and industry-leading customer support and service. With a history of successful projects and satisfied customers, Sales Graphics recognizes that successful growth only comes from providing the best products and services possible to our clients and we look forward to another year of growth, innovation and satisfied clients.

In this year's difficult economy, making the Inc. 5000 List is especially meaningful. In a time of cutbacks and layoffs, Sales Graphics' growth is a testament to the importance and effectiveness of its software and services. As companies look for new ways to be more efficient and more effective in their sales and marketing, Sales Graphics is the partner they look to for help.

3 Hours, 17 Minutes and 40 Seconds

That's how long it took our own David Michaels to complete this year's Nautica New York City Triathalon. He swam 1,500 meters in the Hudson River, biked 40 kilometers up the West Side Highway and ran 10 kilometers through Central Park (course map here).

Needless to say, everyone here at Sales Graphics is incredibly proud of David for completing this—although we're still not sure why he did it. He says he was roped into it by one of our clients at Allure Magazine, but I'm not sure if that's a good enough reason to put oneself through 3 hours of grueling physical punishment like that.

Regardless of the reason, he did it and set the bar pretty high for the rest of us. So now I can't wait to see what else he and the rest of the folks here at Sales Graphics decide to accomplish!

Sales Graphics Wins 2009 Stevie Award for Best Sales Video

Sales Graphics was honored last night by the American Business Awards with the 2009 Stevie Award for Best Sales Video of Year for our Glamour.TV Sales Video. Sales Graphics' DesignStudio, working closely with the great Creative Services team at Glamour Magazine, created an exciting video that showed off Glamour's great online offering in a 4-minute video that sales people showed on DVDs, laptops and online.

We are always thrilled to receive awards like the Stevie that recognize all of the hard work that our designers and clients put in to create projects like the Glamour.TV video.

min's Sales Executive of the Year Awards

min announced their Sales Executive of Year Awards today and we were excited, but not surprised, to see many of our clients listed among the honorees. Working closely with our clients' sales teams, we have seen their exceptional work close up. And the great work our clients do influences the work that we do at Sales Graphics. Our CustomShow Presentation Software has been made better over the years through feedback, input and suggestions from sales teams like these. And our DesignStudio projects benefit immensely from the creativity and insight of sales teams across the country.

So congratulations to the Sales Graphics' clients who are among this year's honorees:

• Lisa Hughes, The New Yorker
• Women's Health
• Men's Health
• Harper's Bazaar
• The Parenting Group

Scientific American Gets Curious with Help from Sales Graphics

Scientific American is curious about how things began. So curious, in fact, that they're dedicating an entire issue to the origins of things. And to help launch this First Annual Origins Issue, Scientific American teamed up with Sales Graphics' DesignStudio to ask some experts on curiosity how to make this issue as interesting and exciting as possible.

This was one of the most enjoyable video projects we've worked on. The editors and the kids were great to work with and everyone had a good time. The result was this promotional video:

Sales Graphics a Finalist for the 2009 American Business Awards

Sales Graphics was honored today as a Finalist for the 2009 American Business Awards for Interactive/Multimedia Sales Presentations and Sales Videos. The projects nominated as finalists were the NBC News Upfront Presentation, the Glamour.TV Sales Video and the Glamour Reel Moments Video.

While we are always honored to receive awards that recognize the great work our designers, developers and clients do, The American Business Awards are particularly satisfying because they recognize not just the design excellence but the business effectiveness of our projects. As presentation specialists, we understand that design is only good if it's effective. Presentations are meant to inform, persuade and activate an audience and if great design can further that goal, great.

Sales Graphics' DesignStudio focuses on effective design that enhances our clients messages and helps them achieve their goals, and successful clients are the best recognition of that. Awards are good too, though.

Sales Graphics' DesignStudio Wins International Creative Award

Sales Graphics' DesignStudio was awarded a Bronze 2009 Summit Creative Award in this year's Summit International Awards Competition for the "Glamour Reel Moments" Sales Video produced for Glamour Magazine. The international panel of judges was made up of agency and design professionals from around the world.

We're thrilled to receive the award as a recognition of the hard work and talent of our designers and to recognize the great programs and collaboration of our partners at Glamour Magazine.

Here's the award-winning video:

To see more examples of Sales Graphics' DesignStudio video work, take a look at our Portfolio.

Reader's Digest and Field & Stream Win Big at NMAs!

Reader's Digest and Field & Stream both won the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence from ASME yesterday. Both long-time clients on Sales Graphics, we would like to congratulate both organizations for this recognition of their great work and ongoing commitment to excellence in magazine publishing.

Other Sales Graphics clients winning ASME awards yesterday included Esquire, The New Yorker and New York Magazine. Congratulations to all the winners for their great work and we look forward to working with all of them in our continued pursuit of excellence in presentation design and delivery.