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Here's what our customers say:
Testimonials from Kyd Dashboard Users
Users who've purchased our Excel dashboard
book and Excel plug-n-play Excel
dashboard templates
have been very enthusiastic. Here are a few of their notes.
Other Useful Information:
"I love your dashboards.
You are a genius. I'm using your dashboards to help a major organization track its email marketing.
They love them. And now they want me to turn everything into a dashboard!
"Thanks for making me look so good!"
Steve Altes
Spire Associates
"Thanks for an excellent product. Received
rave reviews the very
first time I used it!! They all believe I spent many hours/days to
prepare my dashboard...but we both know better!!"
[name withheld, for obvious reasons]
"I bought your e-book, "Dashboard Reporting With Excel" last year – a
fantastic purchase!"
Kevin Hodge
Key Account Mgr
General Mills
"Earlier this year I purchased your excellent Excel dashboard package.
"Thank you, kind
sir!!!
"I have directed several of my co-workers to your excellent site, and they have all made positive comments!"
Ardith Ellis
Consumer Relations
Michelin North America
"Thanks for revolutionizing the way I process and present month-end data and results.
"Buying your e-book was the
best thing I've done for myself in a long, long time.
"I've forced our CIO to purchase it as well."
VP, General Manager of a PR and advertising firm
"Your book is fantastic! Have learned more from that book than I have in 20 years of using spreadsheets."
Albert J Rossman
Senior Manager, Financial Integration
Abbott Laboratories
"What a great book!
"Now I can apply my newfound charting skills to
quickly create dashboards on how my trust line of business is performing."
Darryl Meyers
Senior VP
Wells Fargo Private Client Services
"A godsend! I wish I had purchased your ebook a lot sooner."
Peter Cassinelli
Analyst/Programmer
SCA Systems Ltd.
"Thank You --
Thank You --
THANK YOU!!!!
"You’ve allowed me to WOW my boss by automating a lot of our invoice processing and all I had to do was cut and paste my info over yours in the data sheet.
"You saved me many hours of work
and tons of frustration."
Kathy Grant
Project Administrator
"The dashboard software I purchased from you is
awesome!
Easy to use and the
book is easy to follow, nice work."
Name and Company Withheld
"The book is a joy! Your writing is simple, elegant, and clear. So mahalo nui loa, as we say in Hawai`i – thank you for your very great effort."
Toddy Hagans
Data Specialist
Hamakua Health Ctr
"You made me look like a superstar with this. Nice work."
Bill Lalor
National Mgr of Technical Support
COSCO Container Lines Americas
"I purchased your book and it has been an
awesome tool. I was made aware of
your resources while I was earning my MBA. I'm so glad I saved that link because this material is helping me
complete this high profile task."
Warren Walker
Copy & Print Services Midwest Manager
Duke Energy
"All I can say is fabulous! It's unbelievable what I have been missing for years.
"The Camera functionality alone makes the small cost of your book and files
worth every penny and more.
"Excellent, many thanks."
John Rixon
Assoc Business Manager
Kraft Foods Inc
"Your book was of immense help to me. I produce dashboards on a regular basis in my life as a CFO and generally have
reduced time on
spreadsheet hell."
Shaun Spalding
CFO
Autolocator
(Moscow, Russia)
"I purchased the Dashbord Kit and I think
it’s brilliant. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes."
Sami Järvensivu
Business Controller
Fläkt Woods Ltd.
Finland
"...one of the most useful tools in my Excel tool belt. I have built several dashboards that had a
positive
impact on my career. Thank you!"
George Bryant
Acuren North Slope Project Manager
BP plc
"I
bought the Plug N Play this morning and printed out my first scorecard this afternoon.
"The product works flawlessly! Thanks so much for developing this wonderful file.
"It makes my heart sing!"
Name and Company Withheld
"EXCELLENT!
Thank you for putting together a fabulous tool.
Wow! Wow!"
John Wright
Systems Analyst
One Washington Financial
"Thank god I found this great tool on the web.
Definitely a must have!"
Ralph Pollandt
Financial Planning Manager
LAN Airlines (Peru)
"Fabulous. Simply fabulous.
"Having built large systems with Excel,
including significant VBA code, I was already very familiar with most of the topics. But it's your implementation of all of it combined that is
truly stellar."
Alexander Cavalaris
Fin'l Rptg Analyst
Earth Tech Canada
"The dashboard
e-book is absolutely awesome!
"I didn’t realize
Excel could do what I wanted it do!
"I’ve started setting up our dashboards to update the look of our
annual report."
Heidi L. Rockwood
Admin Assistant to the VP
University of Illinois
"All I can say is Wow! This is amazing! I have done dashboards before but never like these."
Jerry Kohl
Owner
Brighton
Collections
"I think it's brilliant! It is unique in unleashing some real power from Excel
without programming."
Martyn Healey
Managing Director
Strategic Leadership Consulting Pty Ltd
"I purchased your book this morning!
Love it!"
Dallan Lax
Owner
Streamline Business Solutions, LLC
"Bought the book and the files. So far,
wow-wee!"
Alex Ortolano
Marketing Product Manager
Company Withheld
"Your book (or the results thereof) has made a
big splash here at the office."
Allen Watts
Operations Mgr,
F2B Mobile Solutions
"An excellent book! Well worth the money.
"It has saved me vast
amounts of time."
Robert Morely
Cardiology Audit Lead
The James Cook University Hospital
"I purchased your ebook and find it
fascinating!"
Celeste Gannon
Travel Data Analyst
Nortel Global Travel Services
"I purchased your product and have found it
immensely
valuable."
Dr. Paul Eykamp
Academic Strategic Planning and Analysis,
Univ. of Calif, Office of the President
"Let me start off by thanking you for putting together this package - it has a
plethora of useful tips and information!"
Daraius Dubash
Financial Analyst
Cummins Inc.
"I'm reading your book and I'm amazed because
it's unique. I didn't think that in the ocean of Excel books around I can find something I never read before."
Leonid Koyfman
Senior Analitics DBA
AvenueA Razorfish
"I purchased your Dashboard Reporting With Excel last night and found it full of
stimulating and practical ideas."
Peter Quirk
Principal Product Manager, Business Operations
EMC Software Grp.
"Your eBook is an awesome tool. I've been reading this every day and
building some great dashboards from your examples. "
Roderick Goodman
Enterprise Technology Group
The First American Corp.
"Excellent product!
"I thought I was a pretty good driver of Excel but I am learning a huge amount.
"Please keep me up to date with new products.
I will pass the word!"
David Border
Managing Director
DBCC
"I recently acquired your Dashboard kit and find it loaded with useful tips. You have designed a very nice,
very helpful tool."
Bob Gannon
President
Gannon Consulting, Inc.
"I love what you did with Excel. Please keep me informed if you come up with something new."
Dennis Eining
President
DRE Consulting
"Your book is excellent. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes. It
is highly recommended."
Flemming Petersen
Business Controller
Geberit A/S
"The book is fabulous!"
Clarence Daniel
Knowledge Manager
Green Mountain Energy Co.
"Your book was excellent. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights."
Nathan Schaan
Controller
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
"...the best 50 bucks I've ever spent. I am
absolutely pleased.
I would recommend it to anyone just for the charting tips!
"
Chip Griswold
Consultant to a major New York newspaper
"I bought your book recently and I must say it's
fun and a pleasure to read and to work with."
Viktoria Kryzhanyuk
Manager Analysis & Planning Consumer Lending
American Express Bank in Germany
"Your E-Book is amazing. I consider myself an Excel expert, but I have already picked up a few items I was not aware of and I have only read the first three chapters. I expect to purchase more of your e-books for my finance team. This book is
better than any
Excel class I have ever taken!"
Jeff Smith
CFO
Montefiore Home Health Program/Medical Group
"I love the product! The dashboards are great and the book is very helpful and well written."
Kelly L Martin
Senior Research Analyst
Ministry of Children and Family Development
"I find the book to be vastly better than I had anticipated
and easily
of higher caliber than a lot of the books on Excel that can be found at the local
bookstore chains."
Alan Johnson
Market Development Mgr
Major Oil Company Affiliate
"The book has been great, & has
given me a lot of ideas about how I could use
dashboards to present a mix of financial and statistical data."
Mark Lees
Engineering Mgr
Vitafibres
"Just wanted to let you know that between the book and the files we
bought I have really ramped up my Excel skills and made some tricky reports
a breeze!"
Denise L. Johnson
Finance Coordinator
Progressive Components
"I am just writing to tell you about how helpful your book has been...
"I am sending you the advance I have achieved so far. The report is incomplete because all the information for it is still being generated. But I wanted to share it with you...
"Your book is well written and very clear on every explanation."
Luis Iturriaga
Quality Systems Consultant
Ingeniería, Calidad y Competitividad
"We'll need to train the different levels of management before we distribute our dashboards. Most of them hate this, of course, because with limited reports they were not held accountable for results. Now they will be, and their bonus will be tied to the results achieved and measured.
"You have no idea how much your publication "Dashboard Reporting with Excel" has helped me and my clients."
Leslie Jedrychowski
Consultant
KnowledgeVantage
"Thank you very much for the dashboard package. It is
absolutely
brilliant!
I have been an Excel business user for many years and
have learnt more
from your publication than from any of the courses that I have attended."
James Campbell
Client Services Director
Paretian Asset Management
"With your help and the information in your eBook, I’m creating a dashboard report the likes of which my company has never seen. I’m sure I’ll get lots of questions and this
will give me a ton of visibility in the organization."
Scott Papay
Six Sigma Black Belt
Trane Residential
"I purchased your Dashboard this week and can say that
it's the best ever!!!
"I'm so impressed with my purchase that I can't wait to start creating dashboards for all of my KPIs!
"I've attached a file of sales by key account so you can see how far I've progressed in just 48 hours...!!!"
Mike Murphy
Nat'l Specification Sales Manager
IG Lintels
"I wanted to let you know that the product has been
extremely helpful in implementing a new dashboard tool for our department. I've been an
Excel user for over 7 years and the info in your book has enlighten me many times over."
Chuong Ma
Product Analyst
Triad Financial
"Thanks for the opportunity to buy your book. I thought I
knew a lot about charts. I program extensively in Excel, but
your book shows how much I didn't know. I have seen tips in your book
that I have never seen in countless manuals I have purchased over the years.
"
Richard de Manincor
Developer
Entellitrix Consulting
"Great book! You clearly have been working with Excel for a long time."
Joe Little
President
Jet Reports
"Charley Kyd's
e-book is an unbelievable value
for the price I paid.
"I've seen bonehead, half-baked programs & reporting modules for which my
Fortune 200 company has paid consultants and programmers hundreds of
thousands of dollars. But they can't do half the great things that
Charley's
ideas deliver.
"They're fully customizable, fully adaptable to your business...the way
you need your information.
"The key to great business decisions is the management and reporting of
data. Charley provides the "great reporting" part.
"With fantastic and simple visuals to help the mind grasp the numeric
trends, Charley's work turns my data into a gold mine.
"All the results without the $100K expense. Charley isn't just smart
...he's honest!"
Douglas Wesney
Pricing Manager
Fortune 200 Company
"Thought I'd send you a quick email to update you on my progress with
dashboards.
"It must be well over 2 years since I bought your ebook &
samples. At the time I was engineering manager for Vitafibres in the UK (I
think one of my comments is still on your website somewhere!). I still think
that dashboard reports are one of the neatest things I've ever done in
Excel. Initially, I was using a dashboard to report energy usage for monthly
management meetings. I followed on from that by using them to create PPM & TPM summary reports. In all these areas the use of
dashboards saved me hours
& hours of time every month.
"Since then, I've moved on from Vitafibres, but I'm still using dashboards! I
still don't use them to present financial data (I'm an engineer, after
all!), but I still keep finding other uses for them - currently I'm working
on an Excel application to carry out some detailed energy saving analysis.
This application has a lot of VBA code behind it, but I intend to use a
dashboard for the summary section of the customer report. I think that the
main thing that I've learned over the past couple of years is that
you don't
need to be a genius or an excel guru to create dashboards, but the
applications are almost limitless.
"I think that for me, one of the things that brought home the real usefulness
of dashboards was the first one I created. I presented my report at the
monthly management meeting as usual, but this one included my dashboard
report. No comment was made during the meeting, but afterwards the
divisional director of the fibres division came up to me and said something
along the lines of ' that report was excellent, it summarised all the energy
usage in a clear & readable manner, and now I can get a real feel for our
energy usage & expenditure.....but that report must have taken you hours to
produce'........well ok it took me 4 days to create the template, but I
didn't tell him that producing the report just took me just the time it
takes to click 'print'!
"All I can say in closing is keep up the good work!"
Mark Lees
Control systems engineer
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