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Each year at DIRECTV, employees from the broadcast satellite service gather by the hundreds to train the company’s retail sales force at locations including Denver’s Invesco Field. The purpose of these events is to equip key employees with the tools they need to communicate precise messaging for the upcoming year, so DIRECTV relies on Sales Graphics to help train trainers by the hundreds.

The standard presentation tools can create hours of slide searching and unmanageable oceans of corporate content. By contrast, our design services and presentation software bring simplicity to stadium-sized events like the ones DIRECTV holds. Animated videos bring the broadcast company to life while legally vetted, lockable content gives DIRECTV sales trainers the assurance they’ll never slip up. To give attendees an active voice through the sessions, we built live interactive text voting into the slides. The result is a lean-forward environment where everyone is engaged.

This year DIRECTV readied their training presentation near the strike of midnight before delivery day, and as soon as the team hit “save” everyone across the company had immediate access to the next day’s presentations. When the trainers at Salt Lake City’s event had an edit they were able to make the change for the next presentation in Raleigh, NC within the hour.

After the fact, DIRECTV’s Sr. Manager of Sales Training said:

“Sales Graphics does a terrific job of helping us successfully train our national sales teams each year. It’s a challenge for us because we have so many people to educate. The Sales Graphics team is our trusted source for helping us deliver our materials in a creative, informative , consistent way. They also help us push the technology to rapidly update information across the country and include cutting-edge features such as polling slides that automatically tally text votes from the audience.”

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.


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!

DIRECTV launched their summer sales training event today with a training presentation designed by Sales Graphics’ DesignStudio and built in CustomShow. Working closely with their Local Strategic Partners, DIRECTV hit the road with an engaging and educational presentation to empower their sales partners to communicate DIRECTV’s value and benefits directly to consumers. And with a whirlwind national schedule, DIRECTV’s training staff needed a presentation system that was both reliable and flexible enough to meet the demands of their taxing training schedule.
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