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.

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!

Gourmet Magazine Puts CustomShow on its 2009 Marketing Menu

Gourmet Magazine is cooking up a great presentation for 2009! By using CustomShow Presentation software, Gourmet is taking advantage of its great design team, including Flash and PhotoShop experts. With CustomShow's ability to seamlessly handle Flash, video and PhotoShop elements, Gourmet's designers will be able to apply all their skills to making the best presentations possible. And with all the great content in the magazine and the talented design staff, the results should be nothing less than mouthwatering!

Comcast Sports Group Scores with CustomShow and Sales Graphics

Comcast Sports Group, Comcast's 10 regional sports networks, has already put points on the board for 2009 by signing up with Sales Graphics to provide CustomShow Presentation software to its national sales team. Using CustomShow's powerful presentation creation and management system, Comcast Sports Group will be hitting home runs all year long with great presentations that are always up-to-date, accurate and exciting. With a nationwide sales force serving 10 regions, Comcast Sports Group needed a presentation solution that would allow them to manage and control sales materials effectively across the country. With all of the great programming and regional-specific content, they also needed a presentation system that was powerful enough to show all their video and flexible enough to be customized for each pitch in each region. CustomShow fit the bill and made the team for 2009.

Happy Holidays from Sales Graphics!

Happy Holidays from Sales Graphics!

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Sales Graphics Announces CustomShow 7

SALES GRAPHICS UNVEILS ADVANCED, WEB-BASED ENTERPRISE PRESENTATION SOFTWARE – CUSTOMSHOW 7

CustomShow 7 Empowers Creation, Collaboration and Presentation

Across the Internet

(Boston, November 10, 2008) Sales Graphics, the leading creator of high-end enterprise presentation software, once again revolutionizes “closing the sale” with the introduction of CustomShow 7. Well-known in the media industry as the gold standard in sales presentation software, the company unveiled this fully web-enabled version of the product at CTAM 2008.

CustomShow 7 frees sales professionals from their desktops, allowing them to create, manage and deliver dynamic, multi-media-filled presentations anytime, anywhere. Fully web-based and secure, CustomShow 7 delivers functionality that allows for real-time collaboration, cutting-edge effects and animation, and flawless presentation.

“Now, more than ever, companies must make a dramatic impression when they present to prospective clients,” said George Chevalier, president, Sales Graphics. “Presentations need to be memorable, engaging, factual, and even entertaining. Web-based CustomShow 7, with its built-in design, collaboration and organizational tools, is where efficient meets eye-popping.”

The CustomShow 7 Top 7
Attention-grabbing design, ease-of-use, web-access and ultimate control make CustomShow 7 different from all other presentation software.

1. MAKE PRESENTATIONS ONLINE. Imagine being able give a presentation without having to be in the room. Click though animated slides and video from where ever you are. Free yourself from the expense and poor video performance of WebEx.
   
2. PRESENT FULL-SCREEN HD VIDEO on your desktop or across the Web. No more squinting to watch tiny video clips or stuttering video playback.
   
3. CREATE EYE-POPPING FLASH PRESENTATIONS with NEW animations. Reduce the expense and time required to build animations in Flash.
   
4. COLLABORATE IN REAL-TIME with colleagues around the world by working on the Web. Edit, revise and review presentations without the inconvenience of sending huge files back and forth. Keep track of files with different versions and avoid the risk of overwriting.
   
5. MANAGE AND CONTROL YOUR BRAND and message with sophisticated permission-based controls. Control all the content including graphics, colors, fonts and charts.
   
6. TRACK THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRESENTATIONS with CustomShow’s built-in Dashboard. See which presentations close deals. At a glance, track the usage of individual presentations and marketing materials while monitoring presentation activity across your entire organization.
   
7. LOSE NOTHING, EVER. Safely and securely back up and archive your company’s entire presentation library, including individual custom presentations and previous versions, on our server – automatically.

CustomShow 7 is in beta testing with select media clients in through December 2008. The product will be broadly available in the first quarter of 2009.

Because Sales Graphics is committed to providing unsurpassed client service and is dedicated to investing in products and relationships, CustomShow 7 will be available to current CustomShow users with no cost upgrade. For new clients, the company will be offering subscription-based enterprise pricing models.

About Sales Graphics
Sales Graphics, headquartered in New York, is the leading provider of high-end presentation software. The company’s CustomShow product, used by media, publishing and consumer goods companies worldwide, blends quality design with new technology to empower sales organizations to create and share effective presentations.

Press Contact: Bradley Daves
Loving + Company
917.749.5943
bdaves@lovingandcompany.com

CTAM CustomShow VIP Preview

Come see the future of media sales presentations. Contact us today to schedule a VIP Preview of the new CustomShow at CTAM. 

Sales Graphics Attending CTAM; Big News About CustomShow

George Chevalier, President of Sales Graphics,  and Jed Chevalier will be attending the 2008 CTAM Summit next week and is looking forward to catching up with clients and meeting new media industry professionals from across the country. He's also excited about letting the cable industry know about the latest developments in our CustomShow Presentation Software.

As many of you know, Sales Graphics has been providing CustomShow as a software solution for media company presentations for over 8 years. Built to support the demanding needs of media sales professionals, it manages and presents video, Flash and images seamlessly, powerfully and securely. Over the years, we've added new features and improved functionality with every new release. This year, however, we've made some significant improvements and can't wait to let the media industry know about them.

Attendees at CTAM will be some of the first people to get a sneak preview of newest version of CustomShow. If you're interested in finding out more or want to set up a meeting at CTAM, just shoot us an email or give us a call.

PC America Launches Cash Register Express Online Demo

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!

In Bad Times, You Need To Do Things Better

According to Interbrand and BusinessWeek Magazine, during a recession brands need to spend harder to "not get distracted from their long-term brand-building efforts" or"to get a leg up on weakened rivals." However, the most important piece of advice from BusinessWeek's annual "Best Global Brands" article came from Martin Puris, the creator of BMW's "The Ultimate Driving Machine" campaign. "In good times, people are less apt to try new things. In bad times, they have to start to do things better."

Sales Graphics has been working with clients to help them do just that: sell better, present better, track better and manage better. With Sales Graphics' DesignStudio and CustomShow Software, our clients have access to better creative, better technology and better tracking and asset management. In good times, those are good things to have. But in bad times, they're necessities.

Sales Graphics Named One of America's 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies

Inc. Magazine today ranked Sales Graphics Corp. on its annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. 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. 

Metropolitan Home at Home with Sales Graphics

METROPOLITAN HOME joined ELLE DECOR as Sales Graphics' clients today. By combining their marketing resources into a single CustomShow Library, the new Luxury Design Group now has an unprecedented ability to share presentation materials across titles, work together to create truly integrated presentations and collaborate between ELLE DECOR and METROPOLITAN HOME.

GENERATE Powered By Sales Graphics and CustomShow

GENERATE, a new kind of agency creating "new content for a new generation", has hired Sales Graphics to develop a new kind of sales presentation. Taking advantage of Sales Graphics' DesignStudio and CustomShow Presentation software, GENERATE will present their broad range of quality content and content creators to the advertising community to develop branded entertainment that will reach consumers across all of today's many media platforms. Combining quality content with innovative technology and marketing, GENERATE hopes to redefine the role of content and content creation in tomorrow's media environment. And combining quality design with innovative technology and marketing, Sales Graphics hopes to do the same for presentations. 

Our Fearless Sales Graphics Designers!

In a testament to the workplace bonhomie at Sales Graphics, Purva, Mike, Roberta and David all jumped out of an airplane together on Sunday. Whether it was a show of esprit de corps or a double-dog dare gone awry, it made for exciting water-cooler conversation the next day. And most importantly, all of them were back at their desks on Monday morning none the worse for the wear. Congratulations!

CustomShow Helps Marketing and Sales: Testimonial

We're always happy to hear back from our clients about their success using CustomShow. We recently heard from Good Housekeeping, who has been using CustomShow for the past year, and it's been a huge success. Speaking with the Associate Publisher, she told that for her "CustomShow is the first improvement to presentation software since the development of PowerPoint, and compared to PowerPoint CustomShow is vastly superior and well worth the investment."

Here's how CustomShow has benefited Good Housekeeping's sales efforts:

• CustomShow helps Good Housekeeping's marketing department save time and maximize productivity. By providing the sales force with a comprehensive library of presentation pages and videos, sales reps can create a variety of individual presentations on their own on a continual basis. This frees the marketers to redirect their efforts to developing new strategies and materials.
• CustomShow enables the sales force to be more independent as their create and present presentations. The bottom line is that sales reps are more enthusiastic and quickly make more targeted pitches.
• They love CustomShow's Online Administrator Dashboard, which tracks usage and gives them an illuminating look at who is using the presentations and what pages they are showing. This valuable insight helps them fine tune the sales message for everyone.
• CustomShow enables Good Housekeeping's team to control the brand message and presentation style so every rep is presenting a branded and well-positioned message.
• Updates to the CustomShow Library are easy and effortless. New pages and videos can be pushed out to the sales force instantly over the Internet.

This kind of feedback is great to hear and makes us proud to be able to help great teams and brands like Good Housekeeping.

Sales Graphics Gets Loving + Company to Help Spread the Word

Sales Graphics has engaged Brad Daves at Loving + Company to help spread the word about not just all the great things we've been doing at Sales Graphics for the last 50+ years but also all the exciting new things that are coming up. Between the great creative work our DesignStudio has been doing for our clients and the exciting new developments we're working on for CustomShow, we think there's going to be a lot of work for Brad Daves and Loving + Company in the upcoming months. So stay tuned!

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
  

Sales Graphics 2008

2008 is going to be a big year for Sales Graphics. Our client list is growing, the DesignStudio is doing great work for both presentations and the Web, and CustomShow is growing up and taking advantage of new technology. The first 50 years have been great, but we think 2008 will be the best year yet!

Where Did Everybody Go?

Is everyone on vacation? NYC is empty.

Ahh. Summer.

Stop reading this blog and go outside and barbecue.