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If your company uses Web meetings, you already know what would make them better: HD video, full-screen transitions between slides, mixing slides from different presentations, a preview of the next slide, no need to launch a separate application to host meetings, and lower cost than the competition. We’ve been hard at work making all of these things happen — right from CustomShow!

The new browser-based interface for CustomShow Web meetings

Here’s what makes our Web meetings exciting:

HD video: CustomShow now lets you present full-screen video to your audience over the Web.

Full-screen transitions between slides: Existing Web meeting software translates your PowerPoint slides into a low-quality experience that stutters and stalls. CustomShow Web meetings offer a high-quality experience that looks every bit as great as being in the same room.

Mixing slides from different presentations: CustomShow makes it easy to pull slides from multiple places into a single Web meeting. No more switching between applications or launching files while your audience watches.

Preview of the next slide: It’s easy to forget what’s coming next in the heat of the moment. CustomShow displays the next slide before your audience sees it, so you never have to wonder.

Single app: Part of what makes existing Web meeting software so frustrating is that it’s a separate application. CustomShow is your presentation software, and now it’s also your Web meeting software. There’s no difference, there’s nothing else to launch, and it works smoothly.

Less expensive than the competition: We’ve priced our Web meetings significantly below existing Web meeting products.

We’ll be posting more info soon, and please feel free to contact us immediately for more info.

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.

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.

Every year Golf Digest published its Hot List of the best golf equipment available. To get advertisers excited about this year’s great-looking Hot List issue and to remind them to get in it while they can, Golf Digest came to Sales Graphics’ DesignStudio to produce an exciting online video with a strong call to action.  Even though we doesn’t make golf equipment, by getting advertisers excited about advertising in Golf Digest’s Hot List 2008 issue, we think our DesignStudio should be on this year’s Hot List!

MSNBC has been gaining momentum and closing the gap with it’s competitors, and they turned to Sales Graphics’ DesignStudio to help get the message out. Our DesignStudio created an exciting email blast video that MSNBC sent first to its own salespeople and then encouraged them to forward it on to clients and advertisers to let everyone know the good news!

PC America, creator of that software for restaurants and stores, released an online demo for their newest product, Cash Register Express. Working for the second time with Sales Graphics’ DesignStudio, PC America created an online demo that walks store owners through all the benefits and features of their great new computerized management system. With great graphics, music and footage of the system in use, the online demo really gets the point across that Point-of-Sales systems can make all the difference for retail. And it even gets the point across in three languages – English, Spanish and French. Built in Flash and fully interactive, PC America’s online demo for Cash Register Express makes their website a real point of sale for PC America!

Glamour.TV announced their 2009 lineup with a great new video produced by Sales Graphics’ DesignStudio. With such a compelling, video-based product to sell, Glamour’s sales team needed much more than a PowerPoint presentation to get advertisers excited about this great sponsorship opportunity. So, in order to take full advantage of their great content and strong brand, Glamour called upon Sales Graphics to put together a video that showcased the engaging and unique content that will shown on Glamour.TV in 2009. The video was a huge hit, firing up the sales team to go sell and demonstrating to advertisers the power of the content and brand of Glamour.TV.

min announced the winners of its 2008 Best of the Web Awards and we were thrilled to see our clients well represented.  The same sales and marketing tech savvy that made them the Best of the Web also made them see the benefits of using the best sales presentation platform available. Specifically designed for media ad sales teams, CustomShow empowers media sales professionals both online and offline. 

To better integrate sales efforts across all of the company’s platforms and brands, A&E has announced the creation of a new cross-media sales unit that will focus on offering advertisers a complete package of marketing insights, research, strategy and solutions. Heading the new team will be long-time Sales Graphics’ favorite, Melinda McLaughlin, who was promoted to Senior Vice President, Insights and Marketing Solutions. Debby Tarnok, another of our favorite partners, was also promoted to Senior Director, Ad Sales Marketing, to help run the new team and provide the tools, insights and solutions needed to keep A&E on the cutting edge.