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The National Geographic Channel will roll out CustomShow as its enterprise presentation platform for Advertising Sales. This means that the entire sales team will have eye-catching animated slides at their fingertips. These slides will update themselves, saving the sales team hours of work every time they customize a presentation.

The Nat Geo marketing team will rely on CustomShow to effectively manage and update their library of slides and presentations throughout the year for their entire sales team. CustomShow lets them control message and design across the company in real-time.

Nat Geo joins a growing list of Fox Cable Networks that are using CustomShow to manage their presentations, including F/X, Big Ten, SPEED, FUEL, Fox Sports Net, and Fox Affiliates.

To launch their new internal idea-generating program, The Power of Suggestion, Condé Nast turned to the award-winning design team at Sales Graphics to produce a video that showcased some of the many employees at Condé Nast with great ideas to share.

After interviewing over 40 employees and listening to their ideas for how to improve Condé Nast and generate new revenue streams, Sales Graphics edited together a sampling of their ideas and produced an engaging video that helped sell the idea through to senior management.

The “Power of Suggestion” video now lives on Condé Nast’s Intranet to help encourage more employees to share their ideas, and to help Condé Nast continue to be a leader in the media industry.

MTV Networks Entertainment Group chose Sales Graphics to design their 2010 Digital Upfront presentation. They’re also using CustomShow to deliver and manage the slides across their entire salesforce.

To ensure that each of our CustomShow users is getting the most out of our software, we’re kicking off 2010 with a weekly series of online training webinars. These are completely free, so just sign up and get the latest on how to use CustomShow. If you’re a brand new user, have specific questions, want a refresher, or are just curious about all of CustomShow’s features, then these webinars are for you!

You can sign up here (we post new sessions every month). This is just one more way that Sales Graphics is working to make CustomShow not only the best presentation software in the industry, but the best presentation software experience.

Training Webinars will be held on Thursdays at 3:00PM EST (12:00PM PST). Call-in information will be emailed to registered participants before each Training Webinar.

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.

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.