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.

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

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.

Adweek's Hot List 2009 Released

Adweek today released their Hot List 2009: Top Magazines and the 10 Under 60. It's great to see so many of our clients listed here, although it's no surprise to us since we see the great work they're doing every day:

AWM Hot List '09: Top 10 Magazines

• Elle (#2)
• Women's Health (#4)
• Men's Health (#7)
• New York (#10)

AWM Hot List '09: 10 Under 60

• Condé Nast Traveler (#6)

Congratulations to Best of Web Winners!

min's 2009 Best of the Web Awards were announced today and Sales Graphics would like to congratulate all of the winners of this year's awards. We were thrilled to see many of our clients represented on the of winners and we would like to add our own voice in recognizing their great work in the past year:

• Condé Nast Publications for Digital Team of the Year!
• Condé Nast Digital
• ELLE.com
• EW.com
• Glamour
• Men's Health
• Style.com
• Gourmet
• New York Media
• InStyle
• Allure
• Men.Style.com
• Women's Health
• Newsweek

Congratulations again and we look forward to working together in 2009!

Travelzoo Awards Travel in Style with Sales Graphics DesignStudio

Travelzoo has selected Sales Graphics DesignStudio to produce the graphics and animations for their 2009 Travelzoo Awards.  With Hugh Jackman setting a new standard for award shows this year at the Academy Awards, Travelzoo knew they had to really wow the audience this year. Establishing the Tzoos as one of the most prestigious awards in the travel industry, Travelzoo wanted to make sure that the awards event was fun, professional and gave all the nominees and winners the kudos they deserve for all their hard work and creativity.

DesignStudio Wins Top International Creative Award

Sales Graphics' DesignStudio was award a 2008 Summit Creative Award today for its work on pcAmerica's Restaurant Pro Express microsite. The Summit Creative Awards recognize and celebrate accomplishments of small and medium sized advertising agencies and other creative groups with annual billings of $30 million or less. Over the last fifteen years the competition has established itself as the premier arbiter of creative excellence for firms of this size.

Sales Graphics Wins Big at Horizon Interactive Awards!

The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, announced the 2008 award winners to highlight this year's "best of the best" in interactive media production.

Sales Graphics was recognized for excellence in Business to Business Marketing with three Gold Awards, two for CustomShow Presentations and one for a Flash Microsite.

• Entertainment Weekly's 2007 General Presentation - Gold Award, Business to Business
  
• Newsweek Magazine's "The Connection Point" Presentation - Gold Award, Business to Business
  
• PC America's Restaurant Pro Express Website - Gold Award, Business to Business
  

The seventh annual, international competition saw just over 1,000 entries from 20 countries around the world. "The 2008 competition was the most competitive to date. The work in this year's competition is at such a high level that the judges really had their work cut out for them," said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. "All of the winning entries displayed a high level of sophistication, aesthetic creativity, technical excellence and clear purpose."

All three of these projects were close collaborations between our clients, Sales Graphics' DesignStudio and Sales Graphics' Technology Team. We're very proud to receive this honor and look forward to continued excellence in 2008!

ASME Announces 2008 Winners

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) bestowed the industry's most prestigious editorial honors tonight at the 43rd annual National Magazine Awards. Among the winners were several Sales Graphics clients, and we would like to offer our own congratulations to the winners.

While the editorial staff certainly didn't use CustomShow to produce their award-winning editorial, you never know... 

• Vanity Fair for Profile Writing and Photo Portfolio
• Condé Nast Portfolio for Magazine Section

Congratulations again from Sales Graphics.

CondéNet Wins min's Best of the Web for Sales Producer

Christine deMaio, Publisher of Epicurious.com and Concierge.com, was awarded today with min's Best of the Web Award for Sales Producer/online. With a great collection of websites and the great design and content of Condé Nast, along with a great CustomShow library of presentations that show all of that great content and design off, Christine deMaio has grow the brands and grown online sales significantly. Congratulations!

The Best of the Web Use CustomShow!

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. 

We'd like to give a special congratulations to our clients who were named min's Best of the Web 2008:

• Portfolio.com (Design, Uses of Interactivity)
• InStyle.com (Email Newsletters, Mobile Application)
• Newsweek (Integration with Print)

ASME Nominations Announced

The 43rd Annual National Magazine Award Finalists were announced today and we were proud to see many of our clients among the finalists. While all of the nominees are certainly deserving of the recognition, we at Sales Graphics would like to give a special congratulations to those people we've worked closely with over the years:

• Condé Nast Portfolio - Magazine Section
  
• Domino - Leisure Interests and Single-Topic Issue
  
• ELLE - Essays
  
• Entertainment Weekly - Essays
  
• Essence.com - Interactive Feature
  
• Field & Stream - Personal Service and Leisure Interests
  
• Glamour - General Excellence
  
• Good Housekeeping - Personal Service
  
• Men's Health - General Excellence and Leisure Interests
  
• New York Magazine - General Excellence, Leisure Interests, Feature Writing, Columns and Commentary, Reviews and Criticism, Design, Photography, Photo Portfolio and Personal Service Online
  
• Newsweek - Photo Portfolio
  
• Vanity Fair - General Excellence, Reporting, Feature Writing, Profile Writing, Design and Photo Portfolio
  

The Wall Street Journal Hosts the Your Honor Awards

The Legal Marketing Association New England Chapter last night announced the Sixth Annual Your Honor Awards, sponsored by The Wall Street Journal. These awards are given out to marketing firms and departments for exceptional work in the area of legal marketing. But the most exceptional work every year is the work that John Jardin does as the Master of Ceremonies. Working with Sales Graphics' DesignStudio for the last three years, he has turned what might otherwise be a dull and predictable awards presentation into a fun and engaging "Oscars" for the legal marketing community. With a compelling presentation created from the funniest film clips of lawyers we could find and presented with CustomShow presentation software, John deserves an award of his own.

Sales Graphics Wins 2007 MarCom Awards

Sales Graphics won a Platinum MarCom Award for Newsweek's 2008 General Presentation "The Connection Point" and a Gold Award for Smithsonian Magazine's "Young Innovators" Event Video. These awards are in recognition of the great collaborative effort of our DesignStudio and our clients. Their vision combined with out designers' skills resulted in these memorable works. 

Congratulations to the min Award Winners

min Magazine today recognized the 2007 Sales Executives of the Year with their annual min Awards. Among the winners, many of them are long-time users of CustomShow and the Sales Graphics DesignStudio. Now while we don't want to take all of the credit, if you're looking to be Sales Executive of the Year in 2008 you might want to give CustomShow a look!

In all seriousness, though, we would like to congratulate the hard work and talent of our clients who were recognized in this year's awards:

Hall of Fame:  Tom Beusse, Former President, Time4 Media

Salesperson of the Year WINNER: Mark Magnani, Director, Integrated Sales & Marketing - Reader's Digest

Sales Team Leader of the Year (SINGLE TITLE) HONORABLE MENTION: Beth Fuchs Brenner, Vice President & Publisher - Domino

Sales Team Leader of the Year (LAUNCH) WINNER: William Li, Publisher - Men's Vogue

Sales Team of the Year WINNER: Men's Vogue (LAUNCH)