Sales Graphics News

Condé Nast's Power of Suggestion

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:18:00 +0000

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 Picks CustomShow

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:36:00 +0000

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.

Incorporating sophisticated designs that enhance the individual brands as well as the over-arching Entertainment Group, the new Digital Upfront presentation helps tell the compelling stories of Spike, Game Trailers, Comedy Central, and Atom. With interactive examples of all the great content and animated designs that bring home their great numbers, MTV Network Entertainment Group's Digital Upfront presentation is a winner in 2010!

Sí TV Launches New Upfront Presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:12:00 +0000

Sí TV launched their new Upfront Presentation designed by Sales Graphics.

They wanted to deliver Sí TV's strong brand and story with a bang, so our award-winning design team created a PowerPoint with custom animations and full-screen video to show off Sí TV's great content.

We wish Sí TV all the best in their selling season!

CustomShow Trainings Webinars Now Available!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:10:00 +0000

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.

Happy Holidays from Sales Graphics!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Sales Graphics' Sponsors LuxuryLab Innovation Forum

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:26:00 +0000

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.

Uncovering Steve Job's Presentation Secrets

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

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.

Bravo Launches Digital Roadshow with Sales Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:34:00 +0000

Bravo Media launched their Digital Roadshow presentation today. Designed by Sales Graphics' DesignStudio and built in CustomShow presentation software, Bravo's Digital Roadshow presents the full range of their digital capabilities and gives their sales team a powerful tool for presenting, explaining and selling Bravo's rich set of digital opportunities.

Built around a set of detailed and engaging demo videos that explain even the most complicated digital opportunities clearly and simply, the Digital Roadshow allows teams of television and digital salespeople to show advertisers the complete picture of Bravo's digital products and opportunities. And since it's in CustomShow, it's easy to use and easy to update for their entire sales team.

Glamour's 2009 Top 10 College Women Event Video

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Glamour Magazine called on Sales Graphics' DesignStudio to create the video elements for their 2009 Top 10 College Women event. An inspirational event like this needed an inspirational and exciting video to open up the ceremony and a strong graphic style to tie together the ten video bios documented each of the exceptional women honored at the event. Sales Graphics' DesignStudio created a set of videos fit the bill.

Fox Cable Sports Signs Up for CustomShow

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:16:00 +0000

Fox Cable Sports Ad Sales, which includes Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Sports Net, FUEL TV and SPEED, has become the most recent member of the Fox Networks Group to adopt CustomShow as their presentation platform. Working closely with Sales Graphics' DesignStudio, Fox Cable Sports will be taking full advantage of CustomShow's design and management capabilities, including creating animated Flash backgrounds for each of the four networks and combining all of their presentations into a single managed library.

Sales Graphics Helps Family Circle Go Back to School

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:04:00 +0000

Family Circle Magazine wanted to announce their big September Back-to-School issue in a big way, so they came to Sales Graphics for help. Our Sales Graphics' DesignStudio created an exciting video email blast that brought to life the beautiful photography and really brought home the point that this was Family Circle's biggest issue ever!

Sales Graphics on Inc. 5000 List for Second Year in a Row

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:13:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:16:00 +0000

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!

Sales Graphics Wins 2009 Stevie Award for Best Sales Video

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:31:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:02:00 +0000

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

Scientific American Gets Curious with Help from Sales Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:22:00 +0000

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.

This was one of the most enjoyable video projects we've worked on. The editors and the kids were great to work with and everyone had a good time. The result was this promotional video:

Sales Graphics a Finalist for the 2009 American Business Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:01:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:31:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:19:00 +0000

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.

Harvard Business School and Sales Graphics Agree—Video Works!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:33:00 +0000

It's nice when a institution of higher learning validates what you've known all along. In this case, Harvard Business School posted a short piece titled "When Video Beats PowerPoint" that pretty much makes the case for what Sales Graphics' DesignStudio has been doing for over a decade! A presentation is a unique opportunity to engage your audience with more than written words (if all you needed was words, you could have sent an email). Video, animation, music and interactivity are all tools that can be used effectively to engage viewers and involve them in the story you're telling.

Sales Graphics' DesignStudio has been creating presentation videos for years, from sales presentation intros to awards show openers. To see examples of some of our work, check out our Design Portfolio or give us a call. To get you started, here's an example of one of our sales presentation intro videos:

The New Yorker Subscribes to CustomShow for Sales Presentations

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:16:00 +0000

The New Yorker becomes the newest member of the Condé Nast family of magazines to use CustomShow for their sales presentations. With their broad range of content and their ability to sell to a wide range of advertisers, The New Yorker needed a powerful and versatile presentation system that would let them manage all of the presentation content and customize presentations for new pitches quickly and easily. CustomShow gives them the Library management they need to keep all their presentations organized while also giving them the design and multimedia tools necessary to create compelling and engaging presentations. With CustomShow powering their sales team, The New Yorker's sales presentations will be the Talk of the Town!

Esquire Magazine Presents in Style with Sales Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Esquire Magazine joined its sister Hearst publications Good Housekeeping and Harper's Bazaar in bringing in Sales Graphics for their ad sales presentations. Working with Sales Graphics' DesignStudio and powering their presentations with CustomShow Presentation Software, Esquire is giving their sales team the tools they need to give great presentations.

Adweek's Hot List 2009 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:57:00 +0000

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)

NBC News Networks Makes News with Sales Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:08:00 +0000

NBC News Networks, which includes NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Meet the Press and MSNBC, has brought Sales Graphic in to create their cross-platform upfront presentation for 2009. With a presentation that focused on their great content and unrivaled technology, NBC News Networks needed an upfront presentation with great design and unrivaled technology as well. Sales Graphics delivered both. Using the latest video and interactive technology, Sales Graphics DesignStudio created a rich-media presentation experience that was still customizable and easy to use.

Congratulations to Best of Web Winners!

noreply@blogger.com (Paul Shapiro) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:35:00 +0000

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!